Managing music data

Managing Musical Performance Data and Documentation
Neil McDermott
School of Culture & Creative Arts – Music
✐- Neil.McDermott@glasgow.ac.uk
- 0141 330 2067

Managing research data in the College of Arts
Case study: Bass Culture in Scottish musical traditions
Documentation & data in music recording
Best practice methods for dealing with performance data:-
Formats
Metadata

The Internet
Database containing (or referencing) delivery quality dataset
Publically available, searchable website
File store containing archival quality dataset

Bass culture in Scottish musical traditions
Currently pending AHRC application
Project will analyse historical printed sources
Selected sources will be:-
Made available online with annotation and critical commentary
Disseminatedvialive performance and commercial recording

Documentation & data in music recording
Session notes – documentation kept by the engineer during recording
Producer’s notes – documentation kept by the producer during recording
Edit Decision List (EDL) – compiled by the producer with reference to his notes

File Formats
Compressed for greater ease of delivery and use
High quality – uncompressed or minimally/losslessly compressed

Metadata
Data about data
Created automatically at digitisation
Content specific metadata has to be added by researchers
Can be embedded within the file or stored in an accompanying database
Allows our digital objects to be indexed and easily searchable

Neil McDermott
School of Culture & Creative Arts – Music
✐- Neil.McDermott@glasgow.ac.uk
- 0141 330 2067

Managing music data

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