Terry Clark's exciting presentation on how RCM is making the most of music performance data. Terry had a few videos to share, to see his full presentation, check this YouTube video at minute 26'12'' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7i2I4hNJ_8

1. Music Performance Data
Jisc Research Data Champions Day
26 March 2018
Terry Clark, PhD
Centre for Performance Science
Royal College of Music | Imperial College London

2. RCM and Research Data
• Heritage and ‘standard’ social science/scientific data sets
• With REF looming the Open Access Agenda is becoming more
important
• Our practice-based faculty are not aware of the data behind their
work; in the main our composers and performers do not think of
themselves as researchers
• Getting RCM systems to talk to each other – what is the point of
having a secure storage system for RD if no one can find your public-
facing outputs?

3. Heritage data storage
Future proofing
We need a data preservation system
which can cope with current and legacy
formats.
The Studios had a number of legacy-
format items which were in danger of
being lost.

4. Data samples for preservation
The RDMSS project gave us the
opportunity to digitise:
50 x DAT tapes
100 x CD/DVDs
60 x Betamax tapes
100 x reel-reels
20 x audio/video U-matic tapes
30 x VHS tapes

5. Heritage data
Emma Towers-Evans
Reel-to-reel tape in need of ‘baking’
Some labelling on it, difficult to
decipher
Was this going to be heritage gold-dust?

6. RCM Performance Simulator

7. RCMStream
http://rcmstream.rcm.ac.uk/View.aspx?id=5184~4s~tet9zEqj

8. Terry’s stuff – TELMI video 2

9. Bioharness data

10. Questionnaire data

11. ASIMUT data

12. RCM Learn

13. Questions and issues
• A vast array of ‘data’ can be (or is being) collected on students’
activities at the RCM, but how and why should we collect and store it?
• If it is being collected, what should be kept?
• How and why to keep
• Where to put or store it and in what format?
• How can it be found and accessed, and by who (internal and external
‘viewers’)?
• What function might the data then have?

14. Musical Impact Data Management

15. Thank you!
terry.clark@rcm.ac.uk