MusicBrainz Summit / 2012 Mini-Summit
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Summary
PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION AND START TIME BELOW.
This mini-summit is aimed at introducing customers and other people who use MusicBrainz data to the MusicBrainz team. We would like to discuss how MusicBrainz and its community can work more closely with its customers. The summit will take place in London on Mon 30 Jan 2012, 10.30am - 6.00pm. After the summit is over, we're going to have a pint at a nearby pub - the Tower Tavern near BBC Yalding House.
If you are interested in attending, please send mail to rob at musicbrainz dot org. Please tell us who you are and what sorts of topics you'd like to see covered at the summit.
Planned Attendees
| Name | Organization | Status | Interests |
|---|---|---|---|
| ruaok | MusicBrainz | confirmed | |
| ocharles | MusicBrainz | confirmed | |
| reosarevok | MusicBrainz | confirmed | Better coordination with the BBC for new artists / BBC Introducing |
| Nikki | MusicBrainz | confirmed | |
| gioele | MusicBrainz | confirmed | |
| ijabz | Jthink | confirmed | |
| Andy Puleston | BBC | confirmed | product and roadmap updates; potential for extending the data; extending ARs around recordings |
| Ben Chapman | BBC | confirmed | |
| Alex Robertson | BBC | confirmed | working with the MB community; cover art; future plans |
| Nicholas Humfrey | BBC | confirmed | |
| Patrick Sinclair | BBC | tentative | |
| Dan Gravell | elsten software | confirmed | Meeting the community, learning of new developments, and understanding how MusicBrainz is developing for application developers |
| Adrian Woodhead | last.fm | confirmed | |
| Last.fm person #2 | last.fm | confirmed | |
| Last.fm person #3 | last.fm | tentative | |
| Marco Oliveira | Triworks (Megabox) | tentative | |
| Dan Simpson | Sony DADC | confirmed | |
| Justin Barker | Universal Music | confirmed | |
| Marco Belmonte | 7 Digital | confirmed | |
| Willian Munn | 7 Digital | confirmed | |
| Paul Shannon | 7 Digital | confirmed |
Other orgs invited, but not attending: EMI, Guardian, Songkick
Location
Room 108, BBC Henry Wood House, 3-6 Langham Place, London W1B 3DF
Directions to Henry Wood House
Coffees, teas etc will be available as we start, and lunch will be provided ~12.30pm.
Confirmation emails have been sent -- if you didn't receive a confirmation, please mail rob at musicbrainz dot org.
Schedule
The agenda for the summit will be online in this Google doc.
- 10:30 Sign in, settle in, introductions
- 10:45 discuss agenda, prioritize topics
- 11:00ish Start discussion agenda points
- 12:30ish Lunch -- we can continue informal conversations over lunch.
- 14:00 Continue on agenda points
- 17:00 Informal networking and open discussion -- no agenda
- 18:00 Adjourn to the Tower Tavern, continue open discussion, but *with* beer (and non-alcoholic drinks for sxe people!).
Suggested Topics
This summit is being held for the benefit of MusicBrainz users/customers and we're taking suggestions about what topics should be covered at the summit.
- last.fm
- last.fm artist URL relationships in MusicBrainz
- How does last.fm map to MBIDs?
- Can http://www.last.fm/mbid/<MBID> URL be safely used? Is it public and will it stay available?
- It seems the artists always point to the MBID that are most recently updated, so currently the links are not stable
- Last.fm says it will become stable and able to resolve all artist/release MBIDs, with an ETA of around 3 months.
- It seems the artists always point to the MBID that are most recently updated, so currently the links are not stable
- How often are new links pulled for artists (official homepage, myspace, etc.)? BBC does it (somehow) instantly...
- BBC are just querying the ws directly now. It'll go back to an 1 hour delay once they go back to use replication.
- last.fm don't pull them from us apparently
- BBC
- BBC Music strategy update
- MusicBrainz community engagement
- Is an API planned to get the list of reviews (to cross-link them from MB)?
- Some reviews are not yet (or not anymore) linked to an MB release, is it planned to do this? Can MB editors help?
- Educating the public/artists on distinction between BBC/MB areas of responsibility, and how to use MB
- Classical summit and desired goals.
- Works Data