School of Information master's student Jess Hemerly will be one of the presenters at this spring's South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas.
Hemerly will be part of the panel discussion “Music & Metadata: Do Songs Remain The Same?” in the SXSW Interactive festival. She will be joined by Professor Jason Schultz, director of the Samuelson Law, Technology, & Public Policy Clinic at the UC Berkeley School of Law, and Larisa Mann, a Ph.D. candidate in Jurisprudence & Social Policy at the School of Law and a professional DJ ("DJ Ripley").
“Metadata may be an afterthought when it comes to most people's digital music collections,” the presenters observe, “but when it comes to finding, buying, selling, rating, sharing, or describing music, little matters more. Its value is immense. But who owns it? And who determines its accuracy?”
A former research editor and manager at Palo Alto's Institute for the Future, Jess Hemerly is currently a second-year master's student at the School of Information. As a freelance writer and cultural critic, Jess's writing has appeared in MAKE, The Onion, 7x7, and on Boing Boing, AlterNet, and several local music blogs.
SXSW Interactive features five days of presentations from the brightest minds in emerging technology and a showcase of new digital works, video games and innovative ideas. The festival will be held March 11–15, 2011, in Austin, Texas.
