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Europeana Sounds Project 620591 Kick-off meeting: Project Overview Richard Ranft London, 17 February 2014

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Europeana SoundsProject 620591

Kick-off meeting: Project OverviewRichard Ranft

London, 17 February 2014

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Goals

Funding call ICT PSP Call 7, published Dec 2012.

Call No. 2.1a: Enriching and improving the Europeana content base:

Aims: enrich and improve the Europeana content base by:

• aggregating cultural heritage content complementing collections already accessible through Europeana

• improving the quality of metadata for better user experience.

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Challenges

• Large numbers of high-quality sounds in Europe's memory institutions, but access is fragmented and constrained

• Europeana: access to Europe’s digital cultural heritage

• … links to 30 million objects

• Sounds (and moving images) get x10 hits on Europeana than other objects

• But… sounds represent just 2% of Europeana

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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

The Project

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Facts and figures

Project duration: 36 months, February 2014 – January 2017

Consortium: 24 partners

Total effort: 1,032 Person-months

Budget: €6,141,898 (€4,913,513 EC contribution)

Funding instrument: Best Practice Network

Coordinator: British Library (BL)

Note: the Grant Agreement including its Annex 1 (Description of Work), is the key document describing the project.

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Project objectives

create a gateway to meet demand for Europe’s rich sound & music collections

provide a critical mass of digital audio and supporting files through Europeana

improve discovery and use by enhancing metadata through innovative methods

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

create Europeana channels for audio and other content

improve infrastructure for aggregating time-based content

build a sustainable network of content providers

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Outcomes

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

Enrich and cross-link metadata for 2m audio and related items

Deliver rights recommendations to improve access to 1.5m tracks of Europe’s audio heritage

Develop and deploy Europeana channels for audio and other content with advanced search and APIs

Extend Europeana’s aggregation and access toolkit

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

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

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Audiences and customers

General public: access to ‘hidden’ content that has wide popular appeal; discovery via popular third party platforms (Historypin, Spotify app, SoundCloud)

Creative industries: access to selected content for re-use

Publishers: access to unique content

Academic researchers: e.g. comparative musicology studies

GLAMS: access to reusable software components for annotation and crowdsourcing; use channels to further enrich Europeana; participate in a sustainable network of experts.

Policymakers: engage with and support for cultural heritage and memory institutions

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Our consortium

National libraries, specialist sound archives, technology partners, non-profits

24 partners from 12 member states

18 are content providers

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Workplan summary

No Name Lead PMs

WP1 Aggregation BL 330

WP2 Enrichment & participation NISV 268

WP3 Licensing guidelines KL 63

WP4 Channels development EF 91

WP5 Technical infrastructure NTUA 91

WP6 Dissemination & networking BNF 94.5

WP7 Project management & sustainability BL 94.5

1,032

All WPs start in M1; end in M36 except WP end M24

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Workplan architecture

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WP1: aggregation

Aggregate critical mass of audio & related content

Establish best practices for future expansion

Develop content selection policy

Define & extend ontologies / vocabularies for audio

Develop EDM for time-based media

Work with WP3 (licensing) to expand access to locked & constrained content

Lead: BL, with EF, NTUA, AIT, NET7 and all content providers

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Content

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

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WP2: Enrichment & participation

Enhance metadata using machine-driven and crowdsourcing participation techniques

Use semantic technologies to enrich metadata

Collaborate with Wikimedia in edit-a-thons to broaden knowledge about Europeana sounds

Align with music scores to link between media types

Explore music information retrieval tools to improve search and discoverability

Enable integration of enriched metadata back to content providers’ systems

Lead by NISV, with EF, NTUA, AIT, NET7, WAWWD, all content partners; also Wikimedia chapters

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WP3: licensing guidelines

Ensure metadata compliance with European licensing framework including use of industry-standard identifiers

Identify & reduce barriers to access

Make recommendations on access to out-of-commerce and domain constrained (geolocked) content

Lead by KL, with EF, all content partners, also GESAC, ICMP, IViR

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WP4 Channels development

Develop, design, test and deploy mechanisms for Europeana Channels to improve discovery, sharing and annotation of audio and related content

Create a Spotify plug-in to link to Spotify content and bring in Spotify users to the Europeana user community

Lead by EF, with NISV, NTUA, AIT, NET7, WAWWD, also Spotify

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WP5 Technical infrastructure

Refine and expand the technical infrastructure to aggregate critical mass of audio in WP1

Refine process for metadata cleaning and normalisation

Create a thesaurus for audio content

Support development of crowdsourcing applications specified in WP2

Lead by NTUA, with EF, NISV, AIT, NET7, WAWWD, CNRS

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WP6 Dissemination & networking

Extend work to wider audiences, including GLAMS, general public, creative industries, rights holders; and facilitate community building of the BPN

Raise profile of the project through events, social media, websites

Organise sound discovery events, international conferences; and a hackathon to explore new ways to use sound materials

Lead by BNF, with all other partners

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WP7: Project management & sustainability

Overall management of the project, including time & financial budgets, consortium communications & meetings

Representation of consortium and reporting to EC

Performance monitoring and project evaluation

Exploitation planning and creation of sustainable network through IASA

Lead by BL, with all other partners

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Project governance

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User Advisory Panel and Advisory Board

User Advisory Panel

• 5 experts (to be selected), representing consumers, creative industries, publishers, researchers and memory institutions, to assess how outputs match user needs.

Advisory Board

• External experts in digital music distribution, machine-led music information retrieval and search; crowdsourcing and public participation in online digital platforms.

• Prof. Mark Plumbley, Centre for Digital Music, University of London; Prof. Martin Kürschner, Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Leipzig, Germany, Amy Rudersdorf, Digital Public Library America, USA; Dr. Alexandre Passant, Music Data Geeks, Ireland; Prof. Dr. Eggo Müller, Utrecht University; Ben Fawkes, SoundCloud; Bettina Schasse de Araujo, WOMEX.

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International Association of Soundand Audiovisual Archives (IASA)

Before closure of project a European Section within IASA will be established to ensure the project’s longer-term sustainability in seven key areas:

• Acquisition and exchange

• Documentation, metadata

• Resource discovery and access

• Copyright and ethics

• Preservation and conservation

• Research, dissemination, and publication

• Digitisation of media content

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Summary tasks

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Kick-off Agenda Day 1

• Welcomes and project overview

• Europeana, European Commission and all partner introductions

• Lunch, tours

• WP1, WP2, WP3, WP4 kick-offs

• Social dinner in the BL (6.30pm)

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Kick-off Agenda Day 2

• Project Management Board, General Assembly, or Open discussion of WPs (am)

• Concerts

• WP5, WP6 kick-offs

• Lunch, tours

• Discussion / feedback from WP kick-offs

• WP7: project reporting, governance & administration

• Next steps

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Thanks for listening!

Richard Ranft

[email protected]

@soundarchive @eu_sounds