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Poster Submissions
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Communicating Meaning and Meeting Information Need within the Music Industry
Charles Inskip, Centre for Interactive Systems Research, Department Of Information Science, City University London, Northampton Square, LONDON, EC1V 0HB
Andy MacFarlane, Centre for Interactive Systems Research, Department Of Information Science, City University London, Northampton Square, LONDON, EC1V 0HB
Pauline Rafferty, Department of Information Studies, Llanbadarn Fawr, University of Wales, ABERYSTWYTH, Ceredigion, SY23 3AS, Wales
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Music industry professionals searching for music on behalf of others are likely to have different information needs than recreational users. A wide range of professional music users, including film makers, advertising agencies, broadcasters and games designers use music to enhance their products. This ongoing qualitative research aims to investigate how music industry professionals communicate meaning and meet their information needs, then evaluate existing systems and thus propose an 'ideal' system for the community. Because of the range of uses and interpretations of music it is anticipated that both the content and the context of the music should be considered in designing systems. An initial sample of experienced music users drawn from the film and music industry have been interviewed using semi-structured interviews. These interviews have focussed on information need, use and behaviour and the communication involved in this process. it is planned to analyse the transcripts of these interviews using Discourse Analysis which can reveal cultural beliefs as interpretive repertoires, which may be used to inform systems design. This method, although novel in the field of Music Information Retrieval, is interdisciplinary and has been used in a range of recent Library and Information Studies research, particularly in user studies and systems evaluation. Although this research is at an early stage the interviews already reveal valuable rich and detailed information, particularly about the process itself, relevance and the importance of similarity and uniqueness in forming requests.
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