RE: Use Cases

Joe, 

 

Thanks for starting this up. 

 

May I propose one change to the scope? 

 

Let’s change “what users *are* doing with musical documents” to “what users *could be* doing with musical documents”.

 

I mean: it’s clear what musicians are doing at the moment with musical documents. They buy and/or print them, they scribble notes on them, and they play what’s on the paper. 

 

In the MusicXML context, I think the real topic is: “what could we be doing to improve the comfort/efficiency/… of musicians when we remove the limitations imposed by a fixed, paper based representation mechanism”. 

 

In other words: I think this discussion needs to be on how to prepare use cases for the future, rather than to capture the past. It’s a difficult discussion as musicians typically have trouble grasping the use cases that are possible. That makes it not easy to differentiate between “gimmick”  features, and features that really improve the playing comfort and efficiency. 

 

Regards, 

 

JanR

 

 

 

 

From: Joe Berkovitz [mailto:joe@noteflight.com] 
Sent: dinsdag 24 november 2015 23:30
To: public-music-notation-contrib@w3.org
Subject: Use Cases

 

Hi Group,

 

Thank you for your patience! It's taken rather longer than I would have liked, due to my being sidelined by illness for a while, but with the co-chairs' help I've prepared an initial list of annotated use cases on the Music Notation CG wiki at this URL:

 

https://www.w3.org/community/music-notation/wiki/MusicXML_Use_Cases#Use_Cases

 

We are eager to generate some feedback and additional depth for the existing cases, and also to add cases that we have overlooked. New material can be added directly in the wiki page by editing it using your W3C account. Please follow the existing formatting by italicizing use case headings and adding indented notes or descriptions below these headings.

 

The chairs have a couple of requests to frame this phase of the discussion:

 

- Let's avoid debates on what is in or out of scope. That will come later. Undoubtedly not everything will be in scope, but we first want to collect all the ideas worth collecting.

 

- For the moment, we would like to focus mostly on what users are doing with musical documents, and return to the question of the nature of the musical content itself at a later point (CMN, neumes, mensural, contemporary, arbitrary graphics...).

 

I'm very much looking forward to this exchange!

 

Best,




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