In the past ten years, a growing number of digital projects have emerged within archives, and they have placed a focus on using Linked Data to facilitate connections to be made between music related materials across the World Wide Web. Projects such as Linked Jazz exemplify the possibilities that can be achieved between researchers, digital experts and archivists. Recent developments for Irish traditional music at the Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA) in Dublin, Ireland mean that the genre can also now be described using an extensive ontology, LITMUS (Linked Irish Traditional Music). In 2019, we engaged this ontology within a digital project entitled Connections in Sound, exploring the challenges and possibilities for Linked Data based on audio collections of Irish traditional music from the American Folklife Center (AFC) at the Library of Congress in Washington DC. The project adapted an experimental approach to enriching metadata from audio materials of Irish traditional music, song and dance at the AFC by creating and working with proof-of-concept resources. Using the project entitled Connections in Sound as a case study, this paper will demonstrate the challenges, opportunities and particularities related to engaging a range of fieldwork and transcribed metadata as Linked Data. This paper suggests that the work of experimenting with certain types of non-commercial digital audio material for use in datasets and digital infrastructures informs ways to represent diversity of musical traditions in the archive and across the World Wide Web.

在过去的十年中，越来越多的数字项目出现在档案馆中，他们将重点放在使用关联数据来促进在万维网上的音乐相关材料之间建立联系。Linked Jazz 等项目体现了研究人员、数字专家和档案管理员之间可以实现的可能性。爱尔兰都柏林的爱尔兰传统音乐档案馆 (ITMA) 对爱尔兰传统音乐的最新发展意味着该流派现在也可以使用广泛的本体 LITMUS（关联的爱尔兰传统音乐）来描述。2019 年，我们在一个名为 Connections in Sound 的数字项目中使用了这个本体，根据华盛顿特区国会图书馆美国民俗生活中心 (AFC) 收集的爱尔兰传统音乐音频，探索关联数据的挑战和可能性。该项目采用了一种实验方法，通过创建和使用概念验证资源来丰富爱尔兰传统音乐、歌曲和舞蹈音频材料的元数据。本文将使用题为“声音中的连接”的项目作为案例研究，展示与参与一系列实地工作和转录元数据作为关联数据相关的挑战、机遇和特殊性。