NOVEL METHODS IN INFORMATION MANAGEMENT FOR ADVANCED AUDIO WORKFLOWS

This paper discusses architectural aspects of a software library for unified metadata management in audio processing applications. The data incorporates editorial, production, acoustical and musi-cological features for a variety of use cases, ranging from adap-tive audio effects to alternative metadata based visualisation. Our system is designed to capture information, prescribed by modular ontology schema. This advocates the development of intelligent user interfaces and advanced media workflows in music produc-tion environments. In an effort to reach these goals, we argue for the need of modularity and interoperable semantics in represent-ing information. We discuss the advantages of extensible Semantic Web ontologies as opposed to using specialised but disharmonious metadata formats. Concepts and techniques permitting seamless integration with existing audio production software are described in detail. 1