Communicating recording locations in MEAD and PIE

MEAD allows to communicate information about where and when music has been recorded. This can be done using the LocationAndDateOfSession composite that allows providing (all elements are optional)::

  • The venue with, potentially, a name, a street address, a location code and, even, a room within a venue;

  • The period during which the session happened;

  • Any contributors that were present during the session (with their ID, name and role); and

  • The type of session.

 

It is also possible to provide multiple sessions for a recording. In addition, PIE’s LocationAndDateOfSession composite allows to signal who claimed that that the information provided is correct using the MetadataSourceReference tag.

While the example is based on MEAD 1.1, the LocationAndDateOfSession composite has not been changed from MEAD 1.0.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mead:MeadMessage xmlns:mead="http://ddex.net/xml/mead/11"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://ddex.net/xml/mead/11 http://ddex.net/xml/mead/11/media-enrichment-and-description.xsd"
    AvsVersionId="3" LanguageAndScriptCode="en">
    <MessageHeader>
        <MessageId>1234</MessageId>
        <MessageSender>
            <PartyId>PADPIDA1234567890</PartyId>
        </MessageSender>
        <MessageRecipient>
            <PartyId>PADPIDA0987654321</PartyId>
        </MessageRecipient>
        <MessageCreatedDateTime>2022-10-11T15:19:00+01:00</MessageCreatedDateTime>
    </MessageHeader>
     
    <ResourceInformationList>
        <ResourceInformation>
            <ResourceSummary>
                <ResourceId><ISRC>GBUM71907008</ISRC></ResourceId>
                <DisplayTitle>
                    <TitleText>
                        <Title>Get Back</Title>
                    </TitleText>
                </DisplayTitle>
            </ResourceSummary>
             
            <LocationAndDateOfSession>
                <SessionType>LivePerformance</SessionType>
                <Period>
                    <StartDateTime>1969-01-30T12:30:00</StartDateTime>
                    <EndDateTime>1969-01-30T13:10:00</EndDateTime>
                </Period>
                <Venue>
                    <VenueAddress>
                        3 Savile Row, London, W1S 2ER, UK
                    </VenueAddress>
                </Venue>
                <Contributor>
                    <Identifier><ISNI>0000000121174585</ISNI></Identifier>
                    <Name>
                        <FullName>
                            <Name>John Lennon</Name>
                        </FullName>
                    </Name>
                    <Role>PrimaryMusician</Role>
                </Contributor>
                <Contributor>
                    <Identifier><ISNI>0000000121452530</ISNI></Identifier>
                    <Name>
                        <FullName>
                            <Name>Paul McCartney</Name>
                        </FullName>
                    </Name>
                </Contributor>
                <Contributor>
                    <Identifier><ISNI>0000000406565379</ISNI></Identifier>
                    <Name>
                        <FullName>
                            <Name>George Harrison</Name>
                        </FullName>
                    </Name>
                    <Role>PrimaryMusician</Role>                       
                </Contributor>
                <Contributor>
                    <Identifier><ISNI>0000000120331518</ISNI></Identifier>
                    <Name>
                        <FullName>
                            <Name>Ringo Starr</Name>
                        </FullName>
                    </Name>
                    <Role>PrimaryMusician</Role>
                </Contributor>
                <Contributor>
                    <Identifier><ISNI>0000000059255711</ISNI></Identifier>
                    <Name>
                        <FullName>
                            <Name>Billy Preston</Name>
                        </FullName>
                    </Name>
                    <Role>PrimaryMusician</Role>
                </Contributor>
                <Contributor>
                    <Identifier><ISNI>0000000059255711</ISNI></Identifier>
                    <Name>
                        <FullName>
                            <Name>Billy Preston</Name>
                        </FullName>
                    </Name>
                    <Role>PrimaryMusician</Role>
                </Contributor>
                <Contributor>
                    <Identifier><ISNI>0000000078284294</ISNI></Identifier>
                    <Name>
                        <FullName>
                            <Name>Alan Parsons</Name>
                        </FullName>
                    </Name>
                    <Role UserDefinedValue="TapeOperator" Namespace="PADPIDA1234567890">Engineer</Role>
                </Contributor>
                <Contributor>
                    <Name>
                        <FullName>
                            <Name>Ray Dagg</Name>
                        </FullName>
                    </Name>
                    <Role UserDefinedValue="PolicemanToEndSession" Namespace="PADPIDA1234567890">UserDefined</Role>
                </Contributor>
            </LocationAndDateOfSession>                       
        </ResourceInformation>       
    </ResourceInformationList>   
</mead:MeadMessage>

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