Secondary sources are comprehensively mined; letters, public records and business documents have been found in places no one else ever thought to look; friends, associates and acquaintances have been interviewed over what seems to be a quarter-century.
Except for a few early works in which recorded speech was mined for its rhythmic qualities, Steve Reich devoted himself to instrumental works until 1981, largely because he didn't want his musical line dictated by the text.
Parsons' own material -- released and unreleased, recorded and unrecorded -- has been so thoroughly mined that the latest CD, "Big Mouth Blues" (Sierra Records), features him just talking.
They also create a comprehensive record that can be mined for clues later.
Each record must be able to have numerous date types associated with it in order to protect IP, eg when an idea was conceived, the work conducted, the work submitted to an ELN, when an embargo can be lifted, when is metadata available, when a record may be automatically mined and processed.
They used linguistic analysis software to quantify the emotions in over 9 million words contained in Congressional Record transcripts from 2013, and mined similar data from more than 47,000 tweets and 4,000 Twitter users with ties to liberal or conservative agendas.
Commenting on PI's new claim, its deputy director Eric King said: "Secretly ordering companies to hand over their records in bulk, to be data-mined at will, without independent sign-off or oversight, is a loophole in the law the size of a double-decker bus.
"Secretly ordering companies to hand over their records in bulk, to be data-mined at will, without independent sign off or oversight, is a loophole in the law the size of a double-decker bus," he said.
This is not only so that data can be mined or transported between different platforms for sharing, but also the presentation and structured availability of ELN records as part of the publishing process and scientific record.
On Sonic Youth's records after 2000, Moore's performances tended toward the affable, and it was Gordon who more often mined confusion and rage and called for the band's most frantic playing.
