The Universal Musical Instrument Lexicon (UMIL) is a crowd-sourcing website dedicated to collecting names and images of musical instruments from various historical periods and cultures. Inspired by projects like MIMO (Musical Instruments Museum Online), UMIL aims to create a platform where users can contribute instrument names in their native languages while exploring a rich display of instrument pictures.
The ambitious initiative will greatly assist in mapping instrument names and facilitating cross-referencing of instruments across diverse sources. To achieve a multilingual search experience, UMIL employs a thesaurus-like concept, assigning each instrument a unique URI that links all its names together. Furthermore, this system ensures that search results are presented in the user's preferred language when utilizing SESEMMI (Search Engine System for Enhancing Music Metadata Interoperability).
