Music and Science: Parallels in Production

Abstract

The music industry has embraced digital technology, from recording and production of music through to distribution and consumption. Meanwhile scholarly communication, including academic publishing and libraries, is also undergoing transformation thanks to the affordances of the digital. We suggest that comparing and contrasting these two sociotechnical systems will provide insights of mutual benefit. We propose a preliminary framing of that comparison, introduce a notion of Digital Music Object that is analogous to the Research Object, and discuss some implications for digital libraries for musicology.