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April 13, 2004

Metadata, Lessig and hitchhiking

Dang, dang, dang:

There is a hastily thrown together conference on music metadata this afternoon at Stanford Law School this afternoon, followed by a book signing and reception for Lawrence Lessig and his new book, Free Culture.

Guess who took the bus into work today? Also ... the bus line going to the park 'n ride lot where my car is ... stops running around 8 pm. Finally ... I'm in poor-grad-student, living on canned goods and ramen mode until next paycheck -- there's not much room in my checking for a hardcover book purchase (especially after I dropped more than a few bucks on 'Classical Music for Dummies' CDs at Virgin this weekend). I suppose it is my fault for not being more diligent in checking Lessig's website for info on local events. Nonetheless ... dang.

For those of you who might be intrigued by the music metadata conference, it will be linked virtually to an IRC channel. See below for details.

Time and Location

Tuesday, April 13
3-6PM

Stanford Law School
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Room 271 (off breezeway in center of building)
Sanford, CA 94035
Maps
Parking info

Lost on the way? Call the CC office at +1.650.723.5205.

Can't be there? Participate via IRC -- "#musicmetadata on freenode".

There also happens to be a Lessig reception book signing/reception at 6PM, see http://www.seeuthere.com/rsvp/invitation/invitation.asp?id=/m2c523-472716604808

First Summit Agenda

Invite

This is very short notice, but what the heck. Rob Kaye of MusicBrainz told me he's driving up to Stanford next Tuesday for Lessig's book signing that evening, so I figured it might be a good time to hold something like what several people have suggested to me in various forms -- a music metadata gathering.

I figure we don't need many people to have a productive meeting. Some topics that I'd like to explore, learn about, get live feedback on:

* metadata-assisted music search
* next generation playlists
* license buyout metadata (with a CC license you reserve some rights, people want to facilitate buying those rights)
* tipjar metadata
* how music metadata can facilitate and be facilitated by web/p2p integration
* music metadata and foaf (the vocabulary)
* music metadata and social networking (general)
* music metadata and the semantic web
* music metadata and semantic xhtml
* how can various projects share/build upon each other's metadata
* how can we encourage applications and services to use music metadata standards and services coming form the community

...

I have a meeting room tentatively reserved in the Stanford law school building, from 3-6 PM.

If this sounds like fun and you can attend, please send me an email. If you have something (or more than one thing) you can give a demo of lightning talk on, let me know that too.

If this sounds like fun to you but is simply too short-notice, let me know. If most interested people are in this category perhaps I'll try to plan something for the future.

-- Mike Linksvayer (homepage)

Posted by misseli at April 13, 2004 10:12 AM

Comments

Cool. Wish there is some way to search for lyrics which I only remember a few words. Or search based on a few lines of rhythm.

Posted by: Sandy at April 15, 2004 01:29 AM

Have you tried an advanced phrase search in a search engine while limiting the domain to a lyrics server/website? I haven't tried it myself, so, take this with a few grains of salt ...

Posted by: misseli at April 15, 2004 09:31 AM