Dmlis 540 Spring 2004 Information System Project mecca pop and Jazz Music For Family Learning and Enjoyment All Team members participated in the development of the spec Project Manager: Carolyn Karis Information Architect: Emily Wheeler

1.1.1.Site Pages (For each page type)

Mecca Homepage Mockup can be found at http://inside.urbanschool.org/~ckaris/MECCA/mecca_index.html

The prototype for the Music Tookkit is found at

http://www.arabissmo.net/meccahomepage/Login.asp

Page Cycles

1. 
   The Search feature. We start with a Basic search where the user can only choose one parameter at a time. [Combinations are described later in Advanced Search.]
   

2. 
   a. If the user chooses the Artists option, the query would involve a join between the Artist, Recording, and Image tables. The results page would include the following information: [image and text samples taken from All Music Guide]
   

If there are matches, show this message: Your search for returned the following results: [Please click on the name or the image of the artist for more details.]

If no matches, show this message: Sorry, your search for did not return any results. Please try another search or browse our collections.

Artist Name	Picture	Date of Birth
Nelly Furtado		Dec. 2, 1978
Earl Furtado	picture	dob
Stephen Furtado	picture	dob
etc……	picture	dob

On the results pages, we include attributes that will help users identify what they are looking for. Because of our young users, we try to include as few attributes as possible on the results page. When the user clicks on either the artist’s name or picture (both are hyperlinked), he/she will be taken to the following detail page:

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Nelly Furtado
Website: http://www.nellyfurtado.com

Biography: Singer/songwriter Nelly Furtado heavily credits her ethnic background and childhood for culturally and crucially spawning her creativity as a female and as an inspiring musician. Born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Furtado's working-class parents, whom are of Portuguese decent, instilled a hardcore work ethic during her upbringing. She spent eight summers working as a chambermaid with her housekeeping mother, quickly realizing what it meant to honestly make a living. She turned to music for enjoyment, learning to play the guitar and the ukulele.
List of Albums that the artist has contributed to either as composer or performer:

1. I’m Like a Bird

2. Whoa, Nelly!

3. Folklore

…and so on

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First, a match between the terms that the user entered will be matched against the Album_Title field of the Album table. If there are matches, display the following results:

Your search for returned the following results: [Please click on the image for more details.]
Albums with titles like “Folklore”
and so on…..

[Note: We are aware that realistically, this design for a results page is not best for sites that have large records. Imagine a term like “love” which could retrieve tons of titles like it. Since Mecca will be selective in the scope of the music it includes, we don’t anticipate having a large quantity of records for either album, artist, or song. Images are used as identifiers in consideration of the visual needs of children. Note here that even though artist names and recording dates might be helpful identifiers in the results page, Mecca believes that its youthful users will find the album covers more useful and more appealing. In addition, this approach will require less intensive programming and therefore is more cost effective.]

A click on an album image (the first one in the example results page above) will bring up the following example details page:

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Folklore

Review: Folklore lacks the humor of Whoa, Nelly! and suggests she'd rather play it straight than play around. And that's the problem with Folklore: though it surely has impressive moments, the album is a self-conscious, somber affair that takes itself far too seriously. At this point, Furtado's Achilles' heel is that she doesn't see a world outside herself. While there's a certain truth to the old axiom "write what you know," she, like many of her peers, takes this credo to extremes, believing that every emotional fluctuation she had in the aftermath of her mild stardom can make for a captivating album. [blah, blah…]
List of Songs in Album:

1. Fresh Off the Boat

2. Powerless (Say What You Want)

3. Explode

......and so on.

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[Notice that even though we want information on artist and dates and credits for the album, it is not advisable to do so based on our data structure. These bits of information are attached to each recording and to call them here would mean a repetition of data in our dataset. This repetition requires extensive programming. Again this is not cost effective for the purpose of Mecca. A click on a hyperlinked song title from an album will submit the request to the page that processes the details page for the Song search. In this way the user will see details about who composed or performed the song, when it was recorded, what style, etc.]
c. If the user chooses the Songs option, the query will involve a join between the Song, Recording, Artist, Instrument_Recording, Instrument and Image tables. The query will first match the user’s keyword with the Song_Name in the Song table which will be joined with the Recording table on the attribute Song_ID to retrieve the recordings of that Song. The results page will include the following information:
[Show a similar message as in Artist choice depending on whether there are results returned or not.]

When the user clicks a Song Title, the next page will show the Recordings of that song title.

A click on the Song title will bring up more details about the recording such as an audio sample, review, credits and a listing of the instruments used in the recording which may be presented on a detail page like this:

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Performer: Nelly Furtado

Composer: Nelly Furtado

Year Recorded: 2000

Credits: Brad Haehnel – Mixing; Brian West – Producer; Gerald Eaton – Producer, etc….

Audio Link: mp3

A brass aerophone with a cup-shaped mouthpiece and predominantly cylindrical bore. In its most familiar form it is the tenor-baritone counterpart of the orchestral trumpet but it is characterized by a telescopic slide with which the player varies the length of the tube (except in the valve trombone): hence the term 'slide trombone' (Fr. Trombone coulisse, Ger. Zugposaune, It. trombone a tiro; Fr. and Eng. up to the 18th century, saqueboute, sackbut). [more]

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Your search for returned the following results: [Please click on the image for more details.]
Songs with lyrics like “I’m like a bird.” Click on a song title to see the lyrics.

[Note: The accession number is not included in the display as is shown in many databases that retrieve and display text. The accession number works behind the scenes and our users don’t need to see it. The Song Title link passes on the song ID to the page that processes the details page for Song search, the Composer or Performer links passes on the IDs for the artist to the details page for Artist search. ]

You're beautiful, that's for sure

You'll never ever fade

You're lovely but it's not for sure

That I won't ever change

And though my love is rare

Though my love is true
[Chorus:]

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away

I don't know where my soul is, I don't know where my home is

(and baby all I need for you to know is)

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away

I don't know where my soul is, I don't know where my home is

All I need for you to know is
Your faith in me brings me to tears

Even after all these years

And it pains me so much to tell

That you don't know me that well

And though my love is rare

Though my love is true

It's just that every time you try to tell me that you love me

Each and every single day I know

I'm going to have to eventually give you away

And though my love is rare

And though my love is true

Hey I'm just scared

That we may fall through

1. 
   Controls -- To illustrate the Listen to Browse Feature, we have used kooky but kid appealing images from a Google Image search. Drop-down boxes each with its own form/submit button are used. The drop-down boxes will be initialized with terms from the Musical Instrument CV, described and illustrated in 5.2.3. The jazz musical styles, drawn for this example from the All Music Guide website, will be part of a musical style name CV that will be created.
   

2. 
   Queries – The queries will involve joins between Instrument, Recording, Instrument_Recording, Image, and Artist (if we want to include links to composers and performers from the instrument and style browsing pages).
   

3. 
   Results page
   

1. 
   For a musical instrument selection. For example, if a user selects Saxophone, the resulting page would include the ff information:
   

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