The Informed Life
Bob Kasenchak on Music, part 2
Jul 2, 2023
In this episode, Bob Kasenchak, taxonomist and information architect at Factor, discusses strategies to make music more findable and the challenges of organizing classical music in streaming platforms. They also explore the distinction between music as information and information about music, the issue of differentiating albums with the same name, and the features of Grammarly.
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- Music search in the digital age requires clean metadata and additional technologies like image recognition and transcription to aid in finding and organizing music.
- Lessons from music organization can be applied to other areas of information management, such as images and textual documents, by applying appropriate categorization and tagging and utilizing language models to enhance search and retrieval experiences across different content types.
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Information Architects can learn from music
Music conveys emotional and contextual information that is encoded and culturally dependent. It raises questions about how to find and organize music in the digital age. The shift from physical to digital media has changed music consumption and searching for music has become more complex. Free-text search is inadequate for organizing music, and clean metadata is essential for accurate categorization. A single search box interface is difficult to implement for music search, given the diverse metadata fields to consider. The challenge lies in mapping nonverbal information (music) to text-based descriptions. Additional technologies like image recognition and transcription can aid in searching and organizing music.
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