iTunes Metadata and Classical Music: Issues and Solutions for Crowdsourced Metadata in iTunes |
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| Authors: | Janelle Varin |
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| Institution: | 1. Pratt Institute, School of Library and Information Science, New York, New York, USAjvarin1@gmail.com |
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| Abstract: | Crowdsourced metadata available in iTunes is too often insufficient or even incorrect for classical music recordings. Listeners find themselves frustrated when the only options iTunes provides are illogical. What we need is a group of professionals who are experts in music and information organization to clean things up. Enter the Music Library Association. The author proposes that this national group with ten regional chapters divide the work of providing improved metadata for classical recordings, using an open source program such as freedb. Working with Gracenote, individual music librarians could also correct existing data and reduce instances of a user encountering poor information. |
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| Keywords: | iTunes metadata classical music crowdsourcing Music Library Association |
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