Ontology for Analytic Claims in Music

The Semantic Web is increasingly used in research about music. A challenge is how to conceive musical works considering the hot debate about their nature in areas like musicology, philosophy, and library science. In addition, scholars ask for approaches representing research claims since these can be useful to document the scholarly debate. Building on a research project in musicology, we present an ontol- ogy for musical works and claims about them. The development of the ontology is work in progress.