# Presentation: 272510

## BMS/Chace Commercial Multitrack Metadata Project

- Preserving Creative America
- Partners Meeting
- July 9, 2008

## Primary Goals

- Develop Data Dictionary/ Field Set harmonized with existing works
- Create schema to encompass metadata about individual audio files as well as common business-related fields (ISRC, publishing information, etc.)
- Develop beta application for proof-of-concept validation testing

## We need to turn this.....

## ....into this!

- <xsi:type=”audioObjectType”><format>audio cassette</format><physicalProperties><baseMaterial>Polyester</baseMaterial><stockBrand>Maxell</stockBrand><dimensions><gauge unit=”inches”>0.125</gauge><length unit=»inches»>5304.4</length><thickness unit=»microns»>10.0</thickness>
- DURATION, e.g.<aes:timeline><startTime xmlns="_[http://www.aes.org/tcf](http://www.aes.org/tcf)_" frameCount="25" timeBase="1000"
- videoField="FIELD_1" countingMode="NTSC_NON_DROP_FRAME">                                        <hours>0</hours>                                        <minutes>0</minutes>                                        <seconds>0</seconds>                                        <frames>0</frames>                                        <filmFraming xsi:type="ntscFilmFramingType" framing="NOT_APPLICABLE"/>                                    </startTime>                                    <duration xmlns="_[http://www.aes.org/tcf](http://www.aes.org/tcf)_" frameCount="25" timeBase="1000" videoField="FIELD_1" countingMode="NTSC_NON_DROP_FRAME">                                        <hours>0</hours>                                        <minutes>28</minutes>                                        <seconds>2</seconds>                                        <frames>9</frames>                                        <samples sampleRate="S96000">                                            <numberOfSamples>639</numberOfSamples>                                        </samples>                                        <filmFraming xsi:type="ntscFilmFramingType" framing="NOT_APPLICABLE"/>                                    </duration>                                </aes:timeline>FILE FORMAT, e.g.<aes:audioObject

## Have any of these?

## Refining Project Goals in a Changing Market

- Since 2003, sales of Physical CDs have dropped 10-20% per year
- Digital Delivery sales (paid download, subscription service, ad-supported, phone, etc.) have significantly grown during that time
- New revenue opportunities (Guitar Hero....) have further underscored the need for collection, documentation, and preservation of recorded assets

## Refining Project Goals in a Changing Market

- Original concept for metadata collection application was “local-based” (RealBasic, Java)
- However, the workflow model for many projects has become more distributed and collaborative
- Now looking at a “push-sync” local app along with a Web-based collection framework as well

## Refining Project Goals in a Changing Market

- Web 2.0 tools will allow for remote generation of checksums as well as Unique Identifier insertion
- Who will hold the data?
- Proposed changes in royalty payments will necessitate collection of performer information

## More Changes

- Electronic Copyright Office synchronization is needed
- New generation of “social-networking” music-based sites that allow collaborative creation with no concern for documentation, preservation, copyright...a new frontier of unstructured assets and metadata

## Revised Strategies

- Independent artists/ labels must be educated about the perils of born-digital content
- College/ University Music Recording programs will have to incorporate curriculum changes to address the changing landscape
- Digital Audio Workstations - can we convince the manufacturers to create a structured export of metadata?