co-funded by the European Commission

What happens to that live concert you just What happens to that live concert you just heard on the radio?heard on the radio?

Or to those unique Or to those unique ethnological recordings ethnological recordings made during long made during long arduous expeditions?arduous expeditions?

Their final destination is a shelf in one of Their final destination is a shelf in one of many professional music archives. many professional music archives.

Music archives are home to priceless music audio, including 78s and other rare and historical recordings.

Archives are held by broadcasters, museums, institutions or private collectors.

Music archives collect the cultural heritage of a people or nation.

Archive collections often also contain videos, books, documents, manuscripts and musical instruments. All are part of Europe’s cultural audio-treasure chest.

Information about the music and the Information about the music and the recordings is collected and stored as recordings is collected and stored as metadatametadata in a database catalogue. in a database catalogue.

These catalogues are the access point to the musicaltreasure chest.

Each archive is an island with it’s Each archive is an island with it’s own character. own character.

Archives have their own individual languages.Their digital catalogues have been created in different formats.Their data is based on different technologies.Users can search the catalogues only one by one. They have to pay a separate visit to each archive.

Participating archives and collections Participating archives and collections will contribute their catalogue data. will contribute their catalogue data.

Participating archives and collections Participating archives and collections will contribute their catalogue data. will contribute their catalogue data.

This data will be transformed into a universally-readable format.

The result?The result? All these different catalogues will be simultaneously searchable

Online searches can be made by anybody, from anywhere. This service will be available in more than 20 languages.

for the first time!

The DISMARC portal is the key to this The DISMARC portal is the key to this access, and will be ready for public use by access, and will be ready for public use by the end of the project in 2008. the end of the project in 2008.

The ten partners in DISMARC are:

RUNDFUNK BERLIN-BRANDENBURG

RBB is the regional public broadcaster in Berlin and Brandenburg, operating one regional television channel, seven radio stations and a wide range of online and videotext services. RBB also contributes to national channels, runs the ARD Warsaw studio and manages the ARD Play-Out-Centre with 17 television and 22 radio channels.

Digital audio content: 300,000 items / 5,200 hoursAnalogue audio content: 233,000 items / 1,200 hours

Consortium leader, content provider, Work Package leader for ‘Management’ and ‘Dissemination’ WPs

GERMANY

ETHNOMUSICOLOGY, MEDIA-TECHNOLOGY AND BERLIN PHONOGRAMME ARCHIVE

EMEM is part of Staatliche Museen Berlin’s Ethnological Museum. Collects, preserves and researches music worldwide and communicates knowledge via exhibitions and publications. Their wax cylinder collection has been included in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register since 1999.

Digital audio content: 357 collections / 738 hoursAnalogue audio content: 717 collections / 8,500 hours

Content provider, Work Package leader for ‘Data’ WP

GERMANY

ANGEWANDTE INFORMATIONSTECHNIK FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT

AIT is a software / research / information management company specialising in information engineering and development of information systems. Provides know-how and technical infrastructure for a variety of EU-funded projects. Technology provider, Work Package leader ‘Technical ‘WP

AUSTRIA

GRIEG MUSIC EDUCATION

GME develops and distributes internet-based education systems and educational content. Customers are primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities.

Dissemination, pilot projects

NORWAY

WOMEX

WOMEX is the premier network exclusively dedicated to world, roots, folk, ethnic, traditional, local and diaspora music of all kinds. Their annual tradeshow/ conference/ festival connects music business, culture and science.

Dissemination, Work Package leader ‘Pilot Projects’ WP

GERMANY

HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK UND THEATER HANNOVER

HMTH is a leading German artistic / educational / research university. Among the 20 subjects offered are ethnomusicology and music pedagogy. Affiliated institutes include the European Centre for Jewish Music, the World Music Study Centre, Institute for Journalistic and Communication Research.

Digital audio content: 7000 CDs / 4,000 hoursAnalogue audio content: 44.000 recordings / 38,000 hours

Content provider

GERMANY

YLEISRADIO

YLE is Finland's national public service broadcasting company, with five national television channels, seven radio channels and twenty-five regional radio programmes.

Digital audio content: 24,000 items / 70,000 hoursAnalogue audio content: 710,000 recordings / 250,000 hours

Content provider

FINLAND

SVENSKT VISARKIV

SVA is part of the Swedish National Collections of Music. An important part of SVA’s activities is research and editorial work, aimed at making archived material accessible to scholars and to the general public.

Digital audio content: 3,800 items / 4,400 hours Analogue audio content: 45,500 items / 34,600 hours.

Content provider, technical support

SWEDEN

INSTITUTE OF ART OF THE POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

ISPAN is a research institution which concentrates on interdisciplinary studies of Polish art and artistic culture, architecture, music, film, theatre and fine arts.

Digital audio content: 621 hours Analogue audio content: 4,950 hours

Content provider

POLAND

SOAS is the only higher education institution in the UK specialising in the study of Asia and Africa. Part of the University of London. SOAS recently began operating the in-house radio station OpenAir Radio.

Digital audio content:1,950 items / 5,500 hoursAnalogue audio content:1,600 items

Content provider

SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND ASIAN STUDIES – UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

UK

DISMARC partner databases provide data describing their music and music-related content, known as metadata.

Technical overviewTechnical overview

This metadata is converted to a searchable DISMARC format.

The metadata is harvested with a virtual digital vacuum cleaner and is stored in the ‘metastore‘.

Other repositories also provide metadata from their catalogues...

Users search the metastore…

The search results give immediate access to all catalogue information.

To dig deeper (to listen, license, research, compare), the user can follow a direct link to the DISMARC partner archives.

To dig deeper (to listen, license, research, compare), the user can follow a direct link to the DISMARC partner archives.

DISMARC opens a window to the archivesDISMARC opens a window to the archives

making archive holdings globally searchable for all, 24 hours/day,

enabling multi-lingual online access to all catalogue data via the DISMARC portal,

byby

enabling archives to communicate their holdings and content widely, quickly and cheaply, to each other as well as to the general public.

offering a selection of downloadable music via the DISMARC portal.

and also byand also by

create a (free) interactive DVD Guide to the DISMARC collection,

support professional exploitation and performance of music with an easy to handle online licensing tool,

make radio broadcasts with as-yet unexposed recordings,

create a series of themed music projects, available as download or CD.

To establish DISMARC, the partnersTo establish DISMARC, the partners

will:will:

Music education will benefit from Music education will benefit from DISMARCDISMARC

Series of academic seminars will focus on changes to the academic environment as a result of DISMARC.

The DISMARC portal will be adapted as an educational tool and incorporated in the ‘Portfolio Music‘ software.

Audio archives gain more relevanceAudio archives gain more relevance

The preservation and reuse of cultural heritage audio is supported and encouraged by public use of DISMARC.

Europe’s research communities will benefit from a complete overview of each others holdings.

DISMARC is DISMARC is notnot an island in itself an island in itself

The software is affordable and sustainable - it uses distributed server technology and easy-to-obtain Open Source software.

The technology complies with the Open Archives Initiative, which increases ease of access.

DISMARC will foster partnerships and strengthen scientific cooperation.

Digital catalogues which are available for download and content aggregation will benefit from the existence of the DISMARC standard.

and more…

DISMARC is DISMARC is notnot an island in itself an island in itself

The DISMARC results will be integrated into The European Library (TEL) and the European Digital Library (EDL) as part of the i2010 Initiative.

The European Library The European Library and the and the i2010: Digital Libraries Initiativei2010: Digital Libraries Initiative

TEL provides a single gateway to the collections of Europe‘s national libraries, and EDL will build upon the TEL infrastructure.

DISMARC will be fully compatible with TEL/EDL and will be integrated into future developments as the TEL/EDL ‘audio pillar’.

Greetings from the DISMARC team

The kick-off meeting was held on Sept 28/29 2006 at the Deutsches Musikarchiv in Berlin, Germany

www.dismarc.org

co-funded by the European Commission