Junjun Cao

Postdoctoral Researcher in Music Library Information (McGill University)

Music Metadata, Semantic Networks/Linked Data and its Analysis, Prompt Engineering with ChatGPT

Preferred name: Shaojun Si. Musicologist, Statistics Analyst, Music Publishing Agent,currently serving as Supervisor for Linked Data of LinkedMusic, within the Distributed Digital Music Archive and Library Laboratory, Music Technology Department, Schulich Music School; previously working as a music editor in China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing House (2014-2018); Part-time Researcher of Chinese Music Research Base; Visiting Scholar at Intelligent Computing Laboratory for Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Education of China/China Wuhan University. Reviewer for the journal “Chinese Music” (Preprint Version), China Conservatory of Music. Member of Chinese Art Artificial Intelligence Society (2022-). Member of Chinese Art Artificial Intelligence Society (2022-). Editor-in-Chief of the “China Music Book and Audio-Visual Publishing Industry Development Report”, yearly (2016-2020).Etc.

For Project Undertaken:

  • Participating in the major project of the National Social Science Fund of China “Research on the Collaborative Innovation Development Theory of Music and Artificial Intelligence” (2022-2024), primarily responsible for the “Application of Artificial Intelligence and Music Communication” section.

  • Led and completed a project funded by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation: “Construction of ‘Knowledge Base’ and ‘Knowledge Map’ of Chinese Traditional Music".

  • Leading a project funded by the Youth Fund of the Chinese Library Society: “Construction of ‘Graph Database’ Based on Collection Resources of Chinese Traditional Music and ‘Music Map’ Research” (2022-2024); This project is being upgraded to its second stage, funded by Chinese Conservatory of Music, with me continuing as the lead project manager.

  • Leading a project on “Research on the Construction of Music Knowledge Graph Based on ‘Eastern Instruments’” at the Intelligent Computing Laboratory for Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Education of China (Wuhan University) (2023-).

Research Interests

  • (Apart from Current Focus) Music Digital Humanities
  • Music Knowledge Graph
  • Social Network Analysis
  • Social Science Research Method (quantitative)
  • Music Communication and Industry (Music Publishing)
  • Music Composition Theory
  • Music Anthropology
  • Music Acoustics
  • Audio-visual Language for Films and Televisions
  • Arts Theories

Academic Record

  • Postdoctoral Researcher in Music Knowledge Database, China Conservatory of Music
  • Ph.D in Library Information Science of Music & Music Communication and Music Industry, Music Industry Development Research Center, Communication University of China --First cohort of domestically trained Ph.D. in Music Industry in Mainland China
  • Master in Digital Audio and Video, and Music Composition Theory, College of Communication, Fujian Normal University (China)
  • Bachelor in Statistics of Communication, Institute of Survey and Statistics, Communication University of China

Publications

Till end of 2024, published 29 papers or research reports (including master’s and doctoral theses, with 7 in core journals). The following papers (research reports) are directly related to the field of digital humanities in music (or arts), information management, and culture dissemination:

  • 2024. “Review of New Concepts and Methods in Music Communication in the New Media Era”. Chinese Music
  • 2024. Postdoctoral Research Report: “Research on the Construction of Traditional Chinese Music Culture Knowledge Base from the Perspective of Digital Humanities”
  • 2021. Ph.D. Thesis: "Research on the ‘Disciplinary Structure’ of Musicology in China Based on the Relationship between Journal Documents: A Perspective of Knowledge Graph” - a thesis of discipline information analysis from the perspective of social network analysis discourse
  • 2022. “Research on the Construction of ‘Metadata Ontology’ for Chinese Traditional Music Knowledge Base”. Digital Humanities Research
  • 2021. “Art Communication Research Logic and Method Based on ‘Social Network Analysis’” // China Music Industry Development Report (2019, Theory Section). Publishing House of Communication University of China
  • 2024. “Knowledge Dissemination: Exploring and Analyzing the ‘Knowledge Flow’ of Musicology Citation Networks Based on CSSCI”. Chinese Cultural Communication
  • 2022. "Review of the ‘Disciplinary Structure’ and Representative Scholars of Chinese Musicology Based on Co-citation Clustering and Pathfinder Networks". Journal of Nanjing Arts Institute
  • 2023. “Review of the ‘Disciplinary Structure’ and Representative Scholars of Chinese Musicology Based on Factor Analysis of Co-citation Relationships”. Journal of Nanjing Arts Institute
  • 2015. “Evolution of the Concept of ‘Mode and Tonality’ from the Perspective of Musical Temperament” (Part one and Part two, Musical Acoustics & Morphology of Music). Journal of Nanjing Arts Institute
  • 2021. “‘Dual Axis Relationship’ and ‘Semantic Network’ of Structural Semiotics: Literary Analysis in Cross-cultural and Scientific Perspectives”. Digital Humanities
  • 2014. Master’s Thesis: Case Analysis of Metaphor and Film Narrative - Taking the Self-Created Microfilm “Delicious” as an Example
  • Have musical works, such as “Seven-Colored Birds”, commercially performed at Fujian People’s Art Theatre and published art songs by China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing House in 2019