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"They're all going out to something weird": Workflow, legacy and metadata in the music production process

McGarry, Glenn; Tolmie, Peter; Benford, Steve; Greenhalgh, Chris; Chamberlain, Alan

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Peter Tolmie

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STEVE BENFORD steve.benford@nottingham.ac.uk
Dunford Chair in Computer Science



Abstract

In this paper we use results from two ethnographic studies of the music production process to examine some key issues regarding how work is currently accomplished in studio production environments. These issues relate in particular to workflows and how metadata is adapted to the specific needs of specific parts of the process. We find that there can be significant tensions between how reasoning is applied to metadata at different stages of production and that this can lead to overheads where metadata has to be either changed or created anew to make the process work. On the basis of these findings we articulate some of the potential solutions we are now examining. These centre in particular upon the notions of Digital/Dynamic Musical Objects and flexible metadata shells.

Citation

McGarry, G., Tolmie, P., Benford, S., Greenhalgh, C., & Chamberlain, A. (2017). "They're all going out to something weird": Workflow, legacy and metadata in the music production process. In CSCW '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (995-1008). https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998325

Conference Name 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW'17)
Conference Location Portland, Oregon, USA
Start Date Feb 25, 2017
End Date Mar 1, 2017
Acceptance Date Sep 6, 2016
Publication Date Feb 25, 2017
Deposit Date Feb 24, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Pages 995-1008
Series Title CSCW '17
Book Title CSCW '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
ISBN 978-1-4503-4335-0
DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998325
Keywords dmos, ethnography, ethnomethodology, labeling, metadata, music production, studio environments, workflow, design, CSCW, HCI
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/844396
Publisher URL http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2998181.2998325
Additional Information Published by: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, p. 995-1008. New York : ACM, 2017. ISBN 9781450343350. doi:10.1145/2998181.2998325

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