{"id":357,"date":"2015-10-18T13:21:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T12:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/?p=357"},"modified":"2015-10-20T13:18:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T12:18:20","slug":"procedural-blending-and-annalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/2015\/10\/18\/procedural-blending-and-annalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Procedural Blending and Annalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0<strong>Graham Klyne<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Friday 9 October, Iris Garrelfs and Graham Klyne attended a &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/semanticmedia.org.uk\/?q=hackathon\" target=\"_blank\">Linked Music Hackathon<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; at Goldsmith&#8217;s University.\u00a0 The event was organised by <strong>Kevin Paige<\/strong> and <strong>David Weigl<\/strong> under the auspices of the Semantic Media projects <em>SLICKMEM<\/em> (Semantic \u2029Linking \u2029and \u2029Integration\u2029 of \u2029Content,\u2029 Knowledge\u2029 and\u2029 Metadata\u2029 in Early \u2029Music) and <em>SLoBR<\/em> (Semantic Linking of BBC Radio).\u00a0 The event brought together those with a shared passion for music and the data that describes it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/files\/2015\/10\/CQ3oBjPWoAEPNSN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-358\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/files\/2015\/10\/CQ3oBjPWoAEPNSN.jpg\" alt=\"CQ3oBjPWoAEPNSN\" width=\"599\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/files\/2015\/10\/CQ3oBjPWoAEPNSN.jpg 599w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/files\/2015\/10\/CQ3oBjPWoAEPNSN-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/files\/2015\/10\/CQ3oBjPWoAEPNSN-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/files\/2015\/10\/CQ3oBjPWoAEPNSN-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/files\/2015\/10\/CQ3oBjPWoAEPNSN-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/files\/2015\/10\/CQ3oBjPWoAEPNSN-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We used the meeting to talk about Iris&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/irisgarrelfs.com\/thesis\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Procedural Blending<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(PB) model, and were able to make good progress on reconciling the model&#8217;s goal of providing a framework for discourse about creative processes with more mundane issues of establishing consistency of usage in more formal data descriptions.\u00a0 In the end, we created some separation between purely structural elements of the model, and others that capture aspects of the creative process.<\/p>\n<p>An updated representation of the Procedural Blending model is captured in the <a href=\"http:\/\/annalist.atuin.ninebynine.org\/annalist\/c\/IG_Philadelphia_Project\" target=\"_blank\">Annalist collection <\/a>describing Iris&#8217; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/irisgarrelfs.com\/smoke\" target=\"_blank\">Smoke<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0project\u00a0and soundtrack. The original notions of &#8220;input&#8221;, &#8220;blend node&#8221; and &#8220;output&#8221; from Iris&#8217; thesis are retained, with the additional concept &#8220;procedural node&#8221; added [click <a href=\"http:\/\/annalist.atuin.ninebynine.org\/annalist\/c\/IG_Philadelphia_Project\/l\/Type_list\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for more] to allow mechanical yet vital connecting elements of the process to be represented consistently within the data description.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/files\/2015\/10\/ip_op_hirarchy21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-363\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/files\/2015\/10\/ip_op_hirarchy21-300x269.png\" alt=\"ip_op_hirarchy2\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/files\/2015\/10\/ip_op_hirarchy21-300x269.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/files\/2015\/10\/ip_op_hirarchy21-100x90.png 100w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/files\/2015\/10\/ip_op_hirarchy21-150x135.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/files\/2015\/10\/ip_op_hirarchy21-200x179.png 200w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/files\/2015\/10\/ip_op_hirarchy21-450x404.png 450w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/files\/2015\/10\/ip_op_hirarchy21-600x538.png 600w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/files\/2015\/10\/ip_op_hirarchy21.png 896w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A blend node in this system represents a step where key creative decisions are made, where several lines blend into one. By comparison, a procedural node may not embody any actual (creative) decision making.\u00a0The structural hierarchy is depicted in the diagram to the left.<\/p>\n<p>Over the coming weeks, we shall be adding a Procedural Blending description based on these elements to the Annalist data collection describing the creation of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/irisgarrelfs.com\/smoke\" target=\"_blank\">Smoke<\/a><\/strong> project. We will also begin to compare the PB model\u00a0with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/prov-overview\" target=\"_blank\">PROV<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0Graham Klyne On Friday 9 October, Iris Garrelfs and Graham Klyne attended a &#8220;Linked Music Hackathon&#8221; at Goldsmith&#8217;s University.\u00a0 The event was organised by Kevin Paige and David Weigl under the auspices of the Semantic Media projects SLICKMEM (Semantic \u2029Linking &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/2015\/10\/18\/procedural-blending-and-annalist\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Procedural Blending and Annalist<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98422,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Cixy-5L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98422"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}