Research on Digital Protection Technology of Chinese Ethnic Music

Digital technology aim at unhindered access to content over computer and communication networks, and digitization may be taken as a visible proposition to enhance the shelf life of non-digital content by preservation apart from the virtue of increased and easy access, thereby furthering usage. To maintain characteristics and diverse ethnic music, build digital library of ethnic music is a feasible way. This paper constructs a model for Chinese ethnic music digital library adapted to Chinese realities through theoretical and empirical research. This paper took four steps to digitize the Chinese music which are content collection, metadata, indexing, and classification. Finally, we recommend the use of Open Archives Initiative System for Chinese ethnic music digital library.