An opportunity for the BBC to share its guiding principles around music metadata and the ecosystem that underlies our nascent BBC Playlister service. Speakers : Sacha Sedriks, Creative Director and Nicholas Humfrey, Technical Architect. BBC Future Media, iPlayer Radio + Music. As part of the British Library's Keeping Tracks symposium on music and archives in the digital age. 21.03.14 http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/music/2014/04/keeping-tracks.html

1. WHAT LIES BENEATH THE SURFACE/SERVICE
SACHA SEDRIKS. CREATIVE DIRECTOR, BBC FUTURE MEDIA, RADIO + MUSIC
BRITISH LIBRARY. KEEPING TRACKS: A ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM ON MUSIC AND ARCHIVES IN THE DIGITAL AGE. MARCH 2014.

2. REMEMBER

3. RECOMMEND

4. REPLAY

5. CUE VIDEO

15. SERVICE
versus
DESTINATION

16. SERVICE
versus
DESTINATION

17. TOUCHPOINTS
BBC MUSIC ECOSYSTEM

29. TECHNICAL
ARCHITECTURE
BBC MUSIC ECOSYSTEM

30. TECHNICAL
ARCHITECTURE
BBC MUSIC ECOSYSTEM

31. SERVICE
backendTECHNICAL
ARCHITECTURE
BBC MUSIC ECOSYSTEM

32. THE SEMANTIC WEB

33. OPEN DATA

35. dbpedia.org

36. dbpedia.org
musicbrainz.org

37. dbpedia.org
musicbrainz.org
bbc.co.uk/music
bbc.co.uk/programmes

38. dbpedia.org
musicbrainz.org
bbc nitro

39. dbpedia.org
musicbrainz.org
FOAF (Friend of a Friend)
bbc nitro

40. MUSICBRAINZ

41. ARTIST ID
CANONICAL

43. musicbrainz.org/artist/artist-id

44. musicbrainz.org/artist/164f0d73-1234-4e2c-8743-d77bf2191051musicbrainz.org/artist/
ARTIST ID FOR KANYE WEST

45. musicbrainz.org/artist/164f0d73-1234-4e2c-8743-d77bf2191051
ARTIST ID FOR KANYE WEST
bbc.co.uk/music/artists/

48. ARTIST ID
CANONICAL

49. ARTIST IDTRACK
CANONICAL

50. ARTIST IDTRACK
if only it were that easy…
CANONICAL

54. THERE ARE OVER 100 DIFFERENT OFFICIAL RELEASES OF NEVERMIND...

55. AS A METADATA STOPGAP, THE BBC HAS ESTABLISHED A SINGLE RECORD ID
WHICH ACTS AS RECORDING GROUP IDENTIFIER FOR SIMILIAR RECORDINGS.
RECORD ID

56. MUSICBRAINZ AND THE BBC ARE ALSO EXPLORING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A DISCRETE WORK ID
TO IDENTIFY AN ‘ARTISTIC CREATION’, WHICH WOULD INCLUDE RECORDINGS DONE BY VARIOUS ARTISTS.
WORK ID

57. CODA

58. STATS
OCTOBER 2013 / FEBRUARY 2014

59. 90,000ishAVERAGE WEEKLY UBs TO BBC PLAYLISTER DESTINATION
AVERAGE VISITS PER BROWSER STABLE AT 1.16 VISITS PER WEEK,
SUGGESTING CORE GROUP OF REGULAR USERS.

60. 3,300,000TRACKS REMEMBERED / ADDED TO PERSONAL PLAYLISTS

61. MOST POPULARTHE CONSISTENTLY MOST POPULAR TOUCHPOINTS FOR THE PLAYLISTER SERVICE

62. UK TOP 40 SINGLES CHARTBBC RADIO 1

63. BBC RADIO 1NETWORK HOMEPAGE & NETWORK PLAYLIST

64. GILLES PETERSONBBC RADIO 6MUSIC

65. PETE TONGBBC RADIO 1

66. ANNIE MACBBC RADIO 1
HER ‘PRESENTER PLAYLIST’ ON PLAYLISTER ALSO HAS THE MOST SUBSCRIBERS.

67. PEAKY BLINDERSBBC TWO

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Q&A?SACHA SEDRIKS & NICK HUMFREY
BBC FUTURE MEDIA, RADIO + MUSIC