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gigxchange/uk-live-music-glossary

UK Live Music Industry Glossary The canonical structured glossary of UK live music industry terminology, published by GigXchange under CC BY 4.0. Overview Metric Value Terms defined 125 QA pairs 143 Role tags 4 (artist, venue, agent, promoter) Categories 15 Cross-references 348 inter-term links Language British English (en-GB) Domain UK live music booking, performance, licensing, contracts Splits definitions… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/gigxchange/uk-live-music-glossary.

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UK Live Music Industry Glossary

The canonical structured glossary of UK live music industry terminology, published by GigXchange under CC BY 4.0.

Overview

Metric	Value
Terms defined	125
QA pairs	143
Role tags	4 (artist, venue, agent, promoter)
Categories	15
Cross-references	348 inter-term links
Language	British English (en-GB)
Domain	UK live music booking, performance, licensing, contracts

Splits

`definitions` (125 rows)

Field	Type	Description
slug	string	URL-safe term identifier, and its anchor on the live glossary
term	string	The term as displayed
definition	string	Plain-English definition
letter	string	A–Z index letter
roles	string[]	Who the term matters to: artist, venue, agent, promoter
category	string	fee, technical, legal, licensing, roles, logistics, … (14 categories)
is_acronym	bool	Whether the term is an acronym
cross_references	string[]	Slugs of related terms
url	string	Canonical anchor on gigxchange.app/glossary
source	string	Always "GigXchange Glossary"
licence	string	Always "CC BY 4.0"

`qa` (143 rows)

125 definition-derived QA pairs ("What is a {term} in UK live music?" → definition) plus 18 editorial FAQ pairs from the glossary's FAQPage JSON-LD schema.

Field	Type	Description
question	string	The question
answer	string	The answer
source_type	string	`definition` (generated from a term) or `faq_schema` (editorial)
term_slug	string?	Term it came from; null for editorial FAQ
roles	string[]	Role tags of the source term
category	string	Category of the source term
source_url	string	Canonical URL
licence	string	Always "CC BY 4.0"

Publisher

—GigXchange — the UK peer-to-peer live music marketplace. Wikidata: Q139677384
—Author: Naumaan Zahid — Wikidata Q139677387
—Parent: Eclipse Labs AI Ltd — Wikidata Q139677374
—Source: gigxchange.app/glossary
—Also on Kaggle

Data collection

Every definition is written by hand by a working UK musician and published first at gigxchange.app/glossary; this dataset is generated from that page, so the two cannot disagree. Cross-references are computed by matching term slugs inside each definition. Nothing is scraped from third parties, and nothing is withheld from the export.

Bias, risks and limitations

—UK-specific. Terms, bodies (PRS, PPL, MU, MVT) and norms are British; several have no direct equivalent elsewhere, and some — "door split", "pay-to-play" — carry different assumptions abroad.
—Grassroots-weighted. The vocabulary reflects pub, club and small-venue booking, where this platform operates. Arena and festival touring language is under-represented.
—Editorial, not statutory. Definitions describe how terms are used in practice. Where a term also has a legal meaning (IR35, force majeure, GDPR), treat this as orientation, not advice.
—A living page. Terms are added and reworded as the industry moves, so a snapshot ages.

Maintenance

Regenerated from the live glossary whenever terms are added or reworded. Row counts move; the schema does not.

Use cases

—Domain adaptation — fine-tune language models on UK music industry terminology
—Retrieval-augmented generation — ground music-industry chatbots in verified definitions
—QA evaluation — benchmark extractive/generative QA on a niche professional domain
—Named entity recognition — identify music industry terms in unstructured text
—Text classification — classify content by industry role (artist/venue/agent/promoter)

Role distribution

Role	Terms
artist	117
venue	105
promoter	50
agent	40

Category distribution

Category	Terms
technical	14
logistics	13
act-types	12
booking	11
fee	11
roles	10
performance	9
legal	9
event-types	8
marketing	8
industry-bodies	7
venue-types	6
licensing	5
general	1
platform	1

Source

All definitions are written by a working UK musician with 17 years of live performance experience. The glossary is maintained at gigxchange.app/glossary with DefinedTermSet + FAQPage JSON-LD schema, per-term anchors, and 83 auto-generated inter-term cross-links.

Citation

bibtex

@misc{gigxchange_glossary_2026,
  title        = {UK Live Music Industry Glossary},
  author       = {Zahid, Naumaan},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {GigXchange},
  url          = {https://gigxchange.app/glossary},
  licence      = {CC BY 4.0},
  note         = {125 terms, 4 role tags, 14 categories}
}

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Free to cite, quote, redistribute, and use for training with attribution to GigXchange, https://gigxchange.app/.