IAML Congress – Rome 3-8 July 2016

Treasuring the sound heritage:

the Europeana Sounds project

Marzia Piccininno - Elisa Sciotti

Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico

delle Biblioteche Italiane

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Introduction

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CC BY-SA

Europeana aggregates metadata:

• From all EU countries +

Norway, Iceland Russia,

Ukraine, Serbia, Switzerland,

Turkey, USA, Vatican State,

Israel, FYROM

• 3,500 galleries, libraries,

archives and museums

• More than 53M objects

• Metadata in 36 languages

Europeana aggregation infrastructure

Europeana|CC BY-SA

The Platform for Europe’s Digital Cultural Heritage

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The provider website

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The project

Which documents?

Sounds, images, photographs, sheet music

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24 organisations from 12 countries

7 National Libraries

5 Archive & Research Centres

2 other Public Bodies

4 Non-profit Organisations

3 Universities

3 Companies

Some outcomes

• 282,111 records in Europeana out of 550,000

• EDM profile specific for music

• Rights Labelling Guidelines

• Semantic annotation tool to tag records (MIMO multilingual vocabulary)

• Tune-ID-o-Matic (ongoing)

• The Europeana music channel

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The future

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The Music Lesson, Louis Moritz, 1808, Rijksmuseum, Public

Domain

The Italian contribution

ICCU is a partner of Europeana Sounds Project and through the Internet Culturale Portal aggregates the sound contents owned and digitized by the Central Institute for Sound

and Audiovisual Heritage.

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Which sounds from Italy?

More than 83.000 digital sounds recordings including Discs 78 RPM, Cylinders,

Compact Discs

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Rights reserved – free access Rights reserved – free access

Public Domain

Which sounds from Italy? Music of different genre, historical, theatrical and literal recordings

from the end of nineteenth to the twentieth century

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Records from ICBSA

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Caruso Gramatica

Marconi Pirandello

Il Pianto delle zitelle: sacra rappresentazione popolare

(Re)discovery event

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•Bibliothèque National de France

•British Library

•ICCU

•Netherlands Institute for Sound

and Vision

•Austrian National Library

First event: Vienna @The Austrian National Library “Beethoven meets Liszt”

Edit-a-thon in Europe

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Edit-a-thon in Italy

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ICCU, November 2016

Giovanni Boldini, Ritratto di Giuseppe Verdi, 1886 - Wikimedia

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Join us on a journey

to make sound collections

available for everyone!

Europeana Sounds project website

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Social pages

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Follow us…

europeanasounds.eu

@EU_Sounds

/SoundsEuropeana

Second international conference Vilnius, 4 November 2016

europeanasounds.eu/europeana-sounds-conference-2016

#EUsounds16

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French (Re)discovery event

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Italian (Re)discovery event

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Join the Europeana Sounds network

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Meeting du printemps [athlétisme] à Colombes, départ de la course des 20 kilomètres, photographie, Agence Rol, National Library of France, public domain

•Audio or audio related collections •A digitised and online accessible collection •A desire to share these collections on Europeana

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Stay tuned...

Thanks for listening