The Trevor Jones Film-Music Archive

What is it about?

The Trevor Jones Archive at the University of Leeds contains audio and video materials alongside textual documents and musical notation. This article considers the issues surrounding working with such a collection, including matters of digitizing content from old media types, organizing the data, metadata and materials, and managing such a collection.

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Why is it important?

The article is perhaps the first to explore the issues of digitizing, organizing and managing an audio-visual archive of screen-music materials. It contains a detailed and replicable metadata schema for such items, and a new standardized naming convention for items relating to the film-score production process, both of which should prove valuable for anyone working with or managing such a collection.