europeana sounds: linking europe's digital sound archives
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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.TRANSCRIPT
Linking Europe's digital sound archivesRichard Ranft, The British Library
British & Irish Sound Archives conference
16 May 2014, Fiontar, Dublin City University
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)
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
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
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)
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
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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFFntJrbVIY
Example of audio re-use
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).
Playable, taggable, shareable, embeddable audio
User playlists
Semantically similar objects
Image: David Haskiya, Europeana
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
Get involved
https://www.facebook.com/soundseuropeana
@eu_sounds
New website (from 2 June)
More information
http://pro.europeana.eu/web/europeana-sounds
Press releases in English, Irish, French, German, Latvia, Danish, Italian...
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