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Linking Europe's digital sound archives Richard Ranft, The British Library British & Irish Sound Archives conference 16 May 2014, Fiontar, Dublin City University

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Presentation by Richard Ranft, Project Coordinator, at the British and Irish Sound Archives’ 2014 Conference in Dublin (Ireland), 16 May 2014.

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Linking Europe's digital sound archivesRichard Ranft, The British Library

British & Irish Sound Archives conference

16 May 2014, Fiontar, Dublin City University

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Current scope of Europeana

a single, direct, access point in 31 languages to European cultural heritage

an aggregator of metadata records contributed by 2,300 cultural heritage institutions from all over Europe

links to 30 million objects (books, paintings, sound recordings, videos, etc)

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Europeana content

From galleries, libraries, archives, museums, AV collections

From all 28 EU member states, plus 7 other countries

18m images

11m texts

0.5m sounds

234,000 videos

15,000 3-D objects• Note: video, sound = 2.5% of total, but x10 accesses

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New! Europeana Sounds:

Will represent the fifth aggregation domain, alongside EFG, EUscreen, APEX, TEL.

Will close the content gap for access to Europe’s digital culture

Europeana Sounds project

Many high-quality sounds in Europe's memory institutions- but access is fragmented and constrained

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Project outline

36 months: Feb 2014 – Jan 2017

gateway to Europe’s rich sound and music collections via Europeana channels

add 0.5m audio + 0.2m associated items (scores etc)

1m audio tracks on Europeana; enrich and link metadata

€6.1m total budget, 80% EC funded (€4.9m EC contribution)

funded by European Union’s ICT Policy Support Programme as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme

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Specific objectives

Double the number of audio items on Europeana, to >1m; additional 0.2m related items: scores, texts, images, videos

Use innovative methods to improve discovery and use by enriching and cross-linking metadata for 2m audio and related items

work with rights holders to unlock access to Europe’s audio heritage

create Europeana channels for audio and other content

improve Europeana’s technical infrastructure for aggregating time-based content

Disseminate the work of the network among end-users and other content providers

build a sustainable network of content providers (with IASA)

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Project partners and wider network 24 funded partners from 12 member states

National libraries, specialist sound archives, Europeana, tech partners, non-profits

18 are data providers

• work also with Internet Archive, SoundCloud, Spotify, Historypin

• Develop European section of IASA to ensure long-term sustainability

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Data aggregation Aggregate via MINT (Metadata Interoperability

Services )

540,000 high-quality audio tracks;potential access to more ‘locked’ content

Full-length recordings

225,000 related items

Classical, contemporary, traditional music

Oral memories, languages, dialects

Natural sounds of Europe

12% for re-use

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFFntJrbVIY

Example of audio re-use

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Uniting cultural items

BWV 870 JS Bach Well-Tempered Clavier - Prelude and Fugue in C major

Manuscript score (Source: The British Library. Add.MS 35021

Audio recording (Source: recorded example from Europeana Helsinki City Library).

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Playable, taggable, shareable, embeddable audio

User playlists

Semantically similar objects

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Image: David Haskiya, Europeana

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Project sustainability

Establish Europeana task force within International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) to ensure longer-term sustainability in 7 key areas:

• Acquisition and exchange

• Documentation, metadata

• Resource discovery and access

• Copyright and ethics

• Preservation and conservation

• Research, dissemination, and publication

• Expertise in digitisation of media content

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Get involved

https://www.facebook.com/soundseuropeana

@eu_sounds

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New website (from 2 June)

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More information

http://pro.europeana.eu/web/europeana-sounds

Press releases in English, Irish, French, German, Latvia, Danish, Italian...

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Stay tuned!Stay tuned!

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and thanks for listening!

[email protected]@soundarchive

@eu_sounds