Well, in another astonishing development in my very brief writing career, my Webjunction article was featured in the Clips and Pointers section of this month’s D-Lib. I am humbled, again.

Also in Clips and Pointers, there’s a link to the Music Information Retrieval Research Bibliography (MIRBIB), which happens to be a project of my friend, UIUC GSLIS Professor J. Stephen Downie. MIR is a really interesting multidisciplinary pursuit that concerns, amongst other things, constructing music as searchable data and developing methodologies to search and access that data. Check out this book chapter Downie wrote (warning: .pdf) that provides a nice introduction to the field.