Recent & Upcoming Events | Antal Dániel honlapja

Open Access Music Dataspaces – Open Music Observatory

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 11:00:00 +0100

Panel topics
How does music shape the social and cultural fabric of Europe? What can patterns of music consumption reveal about policies, inclusion, and everyday life? Music is not only a mirror of culture, but also a living indicator of how communities evolve and interact. Today, the growing availability of music-related data opens new perspectives to understand the social value of music and its potential to build fairer and more sustainable ecosystems. When used responsibly, data can help policymakers, researchers, and professionals identify gaps, measure impact, and support better decision-making. By turning open data into collective knowledge, projects like OpenMusE aim to bring more transparency, visibility, and fairness to Europe’s music landscape, bridging analysis, policy, and creativity. Can data really become a common good for music? And how can openness drive the next phase of Europe’s cultural development?

The presentation introduces the Open Music Observatory (OMO), a federated, open-data infrastructure designed to repair long-standing metadata gaps in Europe’s music ecosystem. Building on the vision set by the feasibility study for the European Music Observatory, we show how fragmented, hidden, restricted, and unharmonised data can be aligned through shared standards and collaborative curation. Using Slovakia as a pilot case, we demonstrate how public and private stakeholders can jointly improve the visibility of national repertoire, reduce metadata errors that cause lost royalties, and strengthen cultural diversity in streaming and discovery systems.

We will present the OMO federation model, its Slovak deployment (SK Music Dataspace), and the ways institutions and developers can interact with the system: manual curation via Wikibase interfaces, automated ingestion through APIs, and compliant AI access through the Model Context Protocol. The talk highlights how interoperable data supports fairer recommendation systems, better attribution, improved royalty flows, and new research possibilities—illustrating how open, ethical data infrastructures can help smaller repertoires thrive in a globalised digital marketplace.

Wikibase as a Data Sharing Space: Connecting Rights, Communities, and GLAM through Federated Infrastructures

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:00:00 +0000

In our use scenario, Wikibase Suite provides a federated data-sharing space between Wikimedia projects, Europeana, and other trusted partners.

From the perspective of Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, it serves as a staging area and alternative incubator for datasets that are still under review, have mixed rights status, or originate from specialised community archives.

Key Ideas

Federation: connects open and restricted databases while preserving provenance.
Rights management: allows data to be public domain, under Creative Commons, or shared via local “use policies” such as non-commercial only.
Knowledge stewardship: supports community-led peer review for small or specialist domains that fall outside general Wikimedia governance.

Examples

The Finno-Ugric Data Sharing Space integrates recordings, images, and linguistic data for Livonian, Võro, Seto, and Mari communities.
The hudobnadatabaza.sk aims to provide access to all music ever made in Slovakia, weather in print sheets loanable in libraries, webshops in CD or sheet format, or song streaming on Spotify.
The Wikimuseum exhibition model allows GLAM institutions and citizen scientists to co-curate collections without physically moving artefacts.

Simple cultural objects, like photographs can be licensed with simple, standardised license statements, music, video recordings of events may have a bundle of rights that need more careful modelling. There is a lot more than CC-BY-SA to opening up open culture for wide audiences.

Next Steps

Align our Wikibase Ontology with the Wikidata:WikiProject Ontology/Cleaning Task Force to provide better mapping of cultural objects, permissions, duties and rights related to their use.
Improve our exchange mechanism with Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons.
Design better quality checks for the data.

Livestream recording

You can watch the presentation here:

Brace for Impact: Trustworthy AI for Good

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:15:00 +0000

At ImpactFest 2025, Reprex joined the expert session “Brace for Impact: Trustworthy AI for Good.”
The discussion explored how knowledge graphs and open, interoperable data can empower AI and data-driven applications that serve both public good and private innovation.
This continues our long-term collaboration with ImpactFest, where Reprex won the Audience Prize in 2022.

Key Idea

Data is only as powerful as it is trustworthy. Reprex promotes the use of knowledge graphs to connect open and proprietary data in transparent, reproducible ways that benefit both business and society.

Next Steps

Develop responsible AI applications built on shared, standards-based data.
Expand partnerships with European innovators in open and trustworthy data ecosystems.

WikiMuseum = GLAM Wiki + Wikibase + Data Sharing Space

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 14:00:00 +0200

14:30–15:00 Our presentation took place in the session
GLAM Cooperation and Community Exhibitions at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025 in Thessaloniki.

We invite Wikimedia communities, data curators, AI specialists, GLAM partners, and digital humanists to join us in building a multilingual, interoperable Wikimuseum and extending the Finno-Ugric Data Sharing Space.
👉 Read more about this data sharing space

Our talk introduced the Wikimuseum concept: collaborative, multilingual exhibitions that bring together museum objects, archival documents, photographs, and private collections into Wikimedia-powered virtual showcases. As a case study, we presented the Livonian garment exhibition, where dispersed artefacts from Finland, Estonia, and Latvia were digitally reunited for the first time in a century.

We also showed how this approach interlinks with the Finno-Ugric Data Sharing Space (FUDSS), a demonstration of a rather complex system built around open knowledge graphs and a showcase of a particularly challenging data governance and curation use case involving FAIR and SAFE standards, different jurisdictions, rarely used languages.

Our federated Wikibase-driven dataspace designed for small, endangered, or diasporic heritage communities. The DSS applies the European Interoperability Framework to cultural data, connecting CIDOC-CRM museum records, DCTERMS library metadata, and Wikibase lexemes, while respecting local epistemologies and multilingual vocabularies.

Highlights

How joint Wikimedia exhibitions allow GLAM institutions and citizen scientists to co-curate without moving artefacts physically.
How multilingual Wikibase lexemes and semantic interoperability support endangered languages like Livonian, Võro, and Mari.
How a Wikibase Suite and Lexeme can provide for an alternative incubator for small communities with modern AI support.

The Wikimuseum Livonian clothing exhibition demo: Traditional Livonian Clothing

Next steps

Extend the Livonian and Seto exhibitions with more garments, and photographs.
Extend our music collections and publish ethnomusicologically relevant datasets.
Align the Wikimuseum model with the ECCCH Heritage Digital Twin Ontology.

Livestream recording

You can watch our presentation here, with two of us slightly pale with the virus that went around in the conference rooms:

Workshop on Metadata Sharing for Small Labels, Libraries, and Collectors

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:00:00 +0200

Join us on 12 September 2025 at the House of Hungarian Music, Budapest for a hands-on workshop on how small labels, music libraries, and private collectors can connect their catalogues and archives to the new Open Music Europe / OpenMusE data sharing space.

We will show how the Slovak and Hungarian music data spaces — federated through the Open Music Observatory — make it easier to:

Share and repair metadata across archives, libraries, labels, and streaming platforms
Use identifiers (ISRC, ISWC, VIAF, etc.) to improve visibility and royalty distribution
Manage voluntary deposits and digital surrogates for private collections
Connect local catalogues to international platforms like Spotify, YouTube, Wikidata, MusicBrainz

Who should attend?

Independent and small labels seeking better visibility in digital distribution
Music libraries and archives aiming for cross-platform metadata integration
Private collectors interested in digitising and sharing their holdings responsibly

Why attend?

Learn how open-source tools like Wikibase make metadata sharing affordable and sustainable
Discover how services such as Unlabel help bring hidden catalogues into global circulation
Network with peers from Hungary, Slovakia, and beyond who face similar challenges

The event language is Hungarian, with support available in English. Further reading: A szlovák adatkicserélési tér magyarországi föderációjának lehetőségei; Federating the Slovak Music Dataspace: Replication in Hungary

Practical details

📅 Date: Friday, 12 September 2025
📍 Location: House of Hungarian Music, Városliget, Budapest
🕑 Time: 10:00–16:00 (followed by informal networking)

Participation is free, but registration is required as places are limited. The language of the event is Hungarian. We appreciate if you write on the registration form a few sentences about what you collect, what type of collections you manage, and what is your primary interest.

👉 Register here (link to be added)

TextileBase: Introduction

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:00:00 +0200

The July 10 is a hybrid event that you can attend either in person or online. Please register via the contact form or via email. For those who cannot visit this event, we offer an alternative online webinar. (Please fill out your availability here). The start time is 15.00 Central European Summer Time, 14.00 GMT and 16.00 EET. If you physically attend, please arrive a few minutes early.

We warmly invite colleagues, friends, and stakeholders interested in cultural heritage data, digital humanities, and AI-supported research to a light and lively summer seminar on three interconnected initiatives.

Our main focus is on TextileBase – our linked open data platform for dress history
We show a glimpse of our futuristic multi-modal, multi-language graph with data, images, music, audiovisual Finno-Ugric Data Sharing Space, as a way to connect clothing history into a broader regional knowledge platform.
And the Wikimuseum concept for wider impact, co-curated collections and exhibitions.

This informal gathering is not about theoretical publications (although we’re happy to send you preprints!). It’s about showcasing how things actually work, especially when archival depth is shallow and data quality is mixed. There’s a big difference between writing about data integration in a computer lab — and actually building tools that work for researchers and cultural institutions across languages, countries, and platforms.

Topics For Discussion

Each speaker will present a short, live demo or walkthrough (10–12 minutes), followed by Q&A and a casual hybrid meet-up.

Daniel Antal: What is TextileBase? Connecting knowledge across museums, archives, libraries, repositories, Europeana, ECCCH, Wikidata.

Anna Márta Mester: Technical, but not Deep Dive: Using the Wikibase Suite, SPARQL endpoints, and Sampo-UI for comfortable scholarly research.

Ieva Pigozne: Use Case: From years to weeks — how Latgalian data curation paved the way for rapid digitisation of Seto and Livonian datasets. Sneak peek: Finno-Ugric clothing.

Kata Gábor: AI for Cultural Heritage: From multilingual NLP to image annotation and ontology enrichment in noisy or sparse data environments.

Asmah Federico: WikiMuseum: A vision for co-curated, multilingual virtual exhibitions with dispersed physical collections.

Wikibase Interfaces

Entry examples from Linked Open Datasets on Garments from the Latgale Region, from right to left: Q142, Q180, Q179, Q181.

In machine-readable format: https://reprexbase.eu/textilebase/Special:EntityData/Q180.ttl

SPARQL Endpoint

We will place here a few sampe querries:

Latgalian Garments Dataset

Sampo UI

We are going to unveil a similar interactive website on the webinar to the OperaSampo; TextileBase will run on Sampo, following dozens of successful digital humanities projects.

Interoperability of Music Libraries and Archives with Public and Private Music Services

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0200

16:00–17:30 Our presentation takes place in the session of Music Libraries of Tomorrow: Reaching out to Wider Audiences at the Mozarteum University E.001 HS Thomas Bernhard room.

We want invite IAML members—national libraries, regional centres, municipal collections, and independent music librarians—to join us in building a federated, decentralised European Music Observatory. 👉 Help Us Build a Truly Inclusive European Music Observatory (invitation blogpost)

Our presentation at IAML 2025 introduces the Slovak Comprehensive Music Database (SKCMDb), a national pilot within Open Music Europe. It offers a pragmatic, scalable solution to a widespread challenge: aligning metadata from libraries, archives, rights organisations, and digital distributors without centralisation or heavy infrastructure.

Built on the European Interoperability Framework, SKCMDb creates a legal, semantic, and organisational bridge between institutions like the Slovak Music Centre, SOZA, and public libraries, while also integrating with global platforms like Wikidata and MusicBrainz. We show how library records, music rights data, and streaming metadata can be reused and enriched across systems—supporting discoverability, legal compliance (like local content quotas), and better access to Slovak music.

This presentation will be especially valuable for professionals working in metadata curation, authority control, and digital service design, and those seeking low-cost, high-impact pathways to public-private interoperability in cultural heritage.

Please visit our poster and talk with our team members, Daniel Antal, Anna Márta Mester (librarian-data steward) and Anna Zilkova (chairperson of IAML Slovakia) on 8 July 2025 10:30–11:00 in the Gallery. You can download our poster in PDF here.

Check out the entry examples related to Albrecht’s: Missa in C (printed, Hudobné centrum) with library and webshop access points, and linked data on the composition itself Q479, linked to its recorded manifestations.

Next steps

The Slovak pilot illustrates how libraries and national music centres can take a central role in a decentralised European Music Observatory that federates with the EU Open Data Portal, Europeana, ECCCH, DARIAH, and Zenodo. This poster accompanies a companion contribution on the Finno-Ugric Data Sharing Space, including the LīvMDb (Livonian Music Database), which explores how smaller regional repertoires can be embedded in broader, multimodal cultural graphs—advancing the vision of a European Music Observatory as a complement to the European Cultural Heritage Cloud.

Finno-Ugric Data Sharing Space

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 10:30:00 +0200

We started experimenting with the legal, organisational, semantic and technical challenges of creating a genuinely trustworthy, AI-supported data-sharing space that can find and connect tangible and intangible elements of the Finno-Ugric cultural universes. We were also seeking a better governance model for oversight for the custodians of these endangered, shrinking universes in their language and with little technical knowledge, partly as alternatives to the established Wikipedia to the open knowledge incubation method for small linguistic minorities.

Meet up with some of our team members, Daniel Antal, Britt-Kathleen Mere, Ieva Pigoze, Bogáta Tímár, and Ieva Vīvere during the conference, and do not forget to check out our presentation at the LP05 Session, Digital Insights in Cultural Research, on Mar 6, 2025 10:30 AM — 11:00 AM, or meet up with Kata Gábor and Dániel Antal in Paris, Anna Mester and Mihály Nagy in Budapest in subsequent workshops.

Read more or take a look at our conference poster below:

Download the poster in pdf

See our presentation made in the DNBH 2025 conference in Tartu:

What are the competencies of the system that we are building?

Please check out the demo version of the Finno-Ugric Dataspace or read the long-form project description.

SKCMDb Presentation on IAMIC 2024

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:30:00 +0100

Today, most music is recommended by algorithms—not only to subscribers of platforms like YouTube and Spotify, but also to radio editors, concert promoters, and festival organisers. This shift has led to the conclusion that collective management organisations (CMOs) and music information centres (MICs) must modernise their metadata and publishing practices to remain visible and competitive in the digital age.

Using advanced data enrichment techniques, our platform helps ensure that these institutions have the most accurate, 360° view of the repertoire they represent. We also ensure that digital streaming services and search engines are updated with precise, reliable, and machine-readable musical metadata.

See our presentation made in the IAMIC 2024 conference in Vienna:

Our goal is to ensure that MICs and CMOs maintain the most up-to-date information about musical works. Whenever data is missing or outdated, we retrieve it from authoritative sources and deliver it automatically into their systems—ready for review by human curators.

We aim to make all music in Slovakia visible across global music discovery platforms, encyclopaedias, Europeana, and the European Cultural Heritage Cloud. This includes helping users locate sheet music for sale or loan, as well as showing where each piece can be heard—whether via streaming, radio, or public archives.

To achieve this, we provide:

We want to ensure that a MICs and CMOs have the most accurate information about music. Whenever data is missing or new information has yet to reach their database, we try to look up the data from reliable sources and ensure that it arrives automatically in their system (to be reviewed by a knowledgeable human curator).
Make all music in Slovakia visible on all global music systems, encyclopaedia, Europeana and the European Cultural Heritage Cloud. Enable people to locate sheets of works for sale or public lending and show where people can listen to the music in various formats.
Provide the information in a dual format: enable a MIC to provide machine-readable, standardised, RDF annotated data to directly support the recommender systems of Spotify, YouTube, Deezer and other platforms.
Provide CMOs with a framework to make their members more visible to digital streaming platforms by enrichment, control and processing of available metadata and to also inform radio stations about the potential recordings that count into their local content, thus promoting local CMO members.

Read more or take a look at our conference poster below:

Download the poster in pdf

Building a music data sharing space with Wikibase

Sat, 21 Sep 2024 14:00:00 +0200

Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024 (#WMCEE) is an annual conference centered on Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia and other related projects) in countries of Central and Eastern Europe (more recently, also in Central Asia). It features presentations on Wikimedia projects, other wikis, free/open source software, free knowledge and free content, and these topics’ social and technical aspects.

Federating the Slovak Music Dataspace: Replication in Hungary

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0100

This presentation will be made in the Hungarian language. A similar presentation in English is available here.

Vajon miért nem ajánl a Spotify híres ajánlórendszere Szlovákiában szlovák embereknek elég szlovák zenét? És miért akadoznak az egyébként is nem kielégítő számú meghallgatások után a kifizetések? Ezek voltak azok a kérdések, amelyekre a Szlovák Művészeti Tanács kis összegű ösztöndíjával, a state51 támogatásával a Reprex és a SOZA válaszokat kezdett keresni 2020-ban. Azok az adatproblémák, amelyek a nem kielégítő eredményekre vezetnek, nem csak Szlovákiában, hanem lényegében minden kisebb nyelvterületen jelen vannak.

A Szlovák Zenei Adattér egy Horizon Europe programban finanszírozott mintaprojekt, amelyben különböző közgyűjteményi és magán jogkezelői adatok és metaadatok összekapcsolására kerül sor. Az adatkapcsolás jogi, szervezési és szemantikai megoldásai a zenei területtől függetlenül hasznosíthatók különböző jogi státuszú könyvtári-, levéltári-, múzeumi és magán adatbázisok összekapcsolására.

Az előadás célja kettős volt: egyrészt szeretnénk olyan zenei adattulajdonosokat találni, akik láthatóbbá és használhatóbbá szeretnék tenni a gyűjteményeiket Magyarországon. A másodlagos cél az előadásban bemutatott nyílt forráskodú technikák és nyílt adatok kulturájának a terjesztése Magyarországon.

Dataweek²⁴: Introducing a new European music dataspace

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 09:30:00 +0100

Daniel Antal introduced on the part 2 of Data Week 2024 and LAILEC the Open Music Observatory, the subjective take of the Open Music Europe consortium on creating a European data observatory with the help of a modern, federated, decentralised data-sharing space that is interoperable with various EU digital services. The short presentation was held in the plenary session (16.00-18.00.)

At 14.00, in the Data-driven automated compliance session (Room Erasmus 3), Daniel spoke about the Sustainability and Innovation pillars of the music observatory in light of the complex compliance issues raised by the CSRD Directive and the difficult-to-access but favourable green financing and insurance opportunities open for the music, film, and another creative sector.

If you are participating in Data Week Part 2 or LAILAC, please join the presentation or have an informal chat at the social dinner. Thanks to KU-Leuven and the Big Data Value Association for the organisation and invitation.

Hackathon Registers of Cultural Entities

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 09:00:00 +0100

The Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic does not have a register of all existing legal entities in the field of art, culture, and the creative industries, making it difficult to implement measures aimed at the entire sector. Its significance became fully apparent after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic when the ministry needed to target governmental support, but it did not have a complete list of eligible entities.

Existing registers

Sectors of cultural heritage (museums, galleries, libraries) – nearing 100% repletion Art sector (visual arts, theaters, musical entities) – low repletion Sectors falling under KKP (architecture, design, gaming industry) – no registers Publicly available data Register of non-governmental non-profit organizations Commercial Register Finstat Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic

Expected solution

The output of the hackathon should be a document outlining the method of creating an information system (IS) that will contain registers of legal entities whose main activities have an artistic or cultural character, as well as the method of filling it with data and how to obtain, process, and display this data.

Public and private sections Automated data collection from search engines based on entered keywords Manual registration of entities Categorization of entities by cultural sectors Import and export of data Generation of output data for managerial decision-making Creation of galleries, navigation menus, dynamic pages, and widgets Automated processing of statistical results

From Slovakia Towards a European Music Dataspace

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 12:30:00 +0100

This presentation was made in the Hungarian language. A similar presentation in English is available here.

Lightning Talk About the Slovak Music Dataspace

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:00:00 +0100

This Lightning talk about the advantages of thinking in datas (sharing) spaces was made in Hungarian for the audience of Networkshop ‘24. For an English language introduction to the topic in the same context see Open Music Dataspace.

ESRS in the Film, Television & Music Industry

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 15:00:00 +0100

Save the date.

IDCC24 Lightning Talk Session

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 16:15:00 +0000

Open Music Europe is a Horizon Europe project that aims to build a working prototype of the planned European Music Observatory.

Interested in our automated data observatories? Let us meet in Edinburgh on the 18th International Digital Curation Conference and discuss who you could use our open-source, collaborative data infrastructure and know-how.

The EU, UN, or other international bodies have recognised or initiated at least 60 data observatories that carry out long-term data collection on various domains; we have not found any good policies or practices on how to place these observatories on data infrastructures that are interoperable towards open science and open government. We are creating a data management and governance model and a working MVP that coordinates data collection and statistical data production among scientific, private and official statistical actors.

Our most crucial pilot project wants to showcase a best practice for using privately-held data, i.e., data of music organisations and surveys carried out by scientific and business actors, to improve the quality of government statistics. We show how the guidelines on using private data as an ‘administrative data source’ and an ex-ante harmonisation of governmental surveys with open scientific surveys can result in high-quality datasets that fully complement the pre-existing official statistical products and commercial products.

As a coordination tool, we started developing a Data Management Plan to increase transparency from the outset. Apart from applying Horizon Europe’s OpenAIRE recommendations and FAIR requirements, we use the Open Policy Analysis Guidelines to bring open science transparency into the less standardised policy analysis area. We implement this following various UN/EU Guidelines on statistical production, creating a three-way reconciliation and interoperability, i.e., scientific research, public policy design and official statistics.

Click through to our working paper (available in PDF, epub, and html).

Our work contributes to sharing outputs earlier using Open Research platforms because we are building a framework supported by research automation that integrates open science, business, and official governmental data. We develop a software ecosystem complementing the R statistical environment and language, the lingua franca of official and scientific statistics, to make the data curation, pre-processing, processing, and eventual quality-controlled statistical data release open, transparent, and much timelier.

Our project follows an open collaboration framework that we design so that private music NGOs and enterprises, statistical offices and open science research groups can work together on the curation and design, production and release and use of data assets in the cultural domain. By opening the statistical infrastructure with our open-source production code and implementing the statistical data and metadata exchange standards simultaneously with other metadata standards and standardisation techniques like ex-ante and retrospective survey harmonisation, we hope to combine them in novel ways like never before while making them available sooner.

https://music.dataobservatory.eu/documents/open_music_europe/slovakia/slovak-cult-stat-pilot.html

Our showcase product will be a twin, linked open data resource: the Slovak Comprehensive Music Database. It will connect in unprecedented detail information about musical works and their sound recordings and notations in music libraries, heritage organisations and individual and collective rights management organisations. We will derive the Slovak Music Industry Registry from this linked open resource that we will convert into a structural business register satellite as an interface between the privately-held data of music management and music heritage institutions and the national/satellite account system of the Slovak Republic, particularly the Slovak Cultural and Creative Satellite Accounts.

Let’s get in touch if you are interested.

Stadslandbouw Den Haag

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 16:30:00 +0100

Ru Wikmann, the co-founder of BeeSage and our Reprex’s partner in piloting the Global Pollinators Observatory and looking for partners for our idea about building a knowledge system that employs millions of bees into monitoring the ecosystem and the downstream of many food value chains.

We would like to find partners for the Dependence of society and the economy on pollinators HORIZON-CL6-2024-BIODIV-01-3 call. For beekeeper and environmental organisations: concept note and for university research partners: CfR.

The film Together We Grow was supplied by The Hague residents and entrepreneurs platform Ons Eten in collaboration with the Food.Film.Fest. of Voedsel Anders. Urban Agriculture The Hague (Stadslandbouw Den Haag) and Ons Eten are both committed to raising awareness about our food system; what do we eat, how good is it for us, where does it come from, does the producer get a fair price, what is needed for production, what is the impact on nature, etc. The films of this festival make you think about these topics and show opportunities.

Let’s get in touch if you are interested.

MusicAIRE: Final Event

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 09:00:00 +0100

Are you participating in the final event of MusicAIRE? Do you want to talk with us about Listen Local, survey harmonisation for the music sector, or preparations for the CSRD Directive?

Let’s get in touch and meet up

More information soon.

Future Proof Film Production Data for Integrated ESG Reporting

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 09:00:00 +0000

Click through to the presentation slides (available in PDF, epub, and html).

Daniel Antal presented the concept of Open Productions for producers and film professionals at the National Film Institute of Budapest, Europe’s largest film production cluster. Our planned project, which received one of the highest scores in the EIT CCI KIC’s Breakthrough Lab and received a conditional funding promise, aims to create an open, computer-actionable knowledge base to support the integration of film production budgeting, rights management, financial bookkeeping and accounting systems with environmental (CO2, H2O, waste, pollution, biodiversity risk map) and social sustainability data (workforce work-life balance, gender pay gap, etc.)

Let’s get in touch!

We are looking for film productions to test our system and report easier, cheaper and better the CO2, H2O, CH4 footprint, tackle their health and safety, gender paygap and royalty management problems.

Semantic Enriching of The Historical Photo Collection

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 15:30:00 +0100

See the use case: Open Foto Ateliers

The slides are only available in the Hungarian language.

Categorizing Cultural & Creative Sectors: An Impossible Task?

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 09:00:00 +0100

Daniel Antal, as the co-founder of Reprex is honoured to be invited to the final event of the wonderful Creative FLIP program. Our Digital Music Observatory in many ways gained momentum from the CCS Ecosystems: Evidence-Driven CCI Policy & The Central & Eastern European Music Industry Report discussion in 2020, just before the terrible pandemic hit us all.

Blogpost for discussion: Categorizing Cultural & Creative Sectors: An Impossible Task? Creating a more flexible and useful business and occupational categorisations for the music and film industries.

More than two years have passed since Creative FLIP kicked-off a new project cycle, continuing to pursue its overall goal, to support a healthy ecosystem for the cultural and creative sectors and industries (CCSI). This is how we work – the launch of the online platform on status and working conditions of artists and cultural professionals is only one of many highlights to expect! Cruise along our flagship initiative, Creatives Unite, and discover its new look and tools, engage in discussions about the power of transformation policies, cross-sectoral cooperation, and platforms for peer exchanges. We will inquire if we should categorize CCSI occupations and why we need to talk about social inclusion, sustainability, greening and more transversal topics when discussing the future of the sector.

In this panel on the FLIP FORWARD Final Conference organised together with the CHARTER project (See: Factsheets: Families of competences pdf) we want to discuss the benefits but also the dangers of categorisation related to the self-image, the measurement, but also the visibility of the CCSI: categorisation enables a highlighting of similarities, but it also has the potential to exclude the unforeseen, the evolving, the fringes.

Our discussion will focus on cultural-creative occupations and be organised around the following questions:

To what extent do the categoriser’s viewpoint and goals shape the categories?
What are the limitations and dangers of categorising the occupational scope of the CCS?
Is it possible to develop an occupational categorisation of the CCS that serves all purposes? If not, how do you deal with this dilemma?

Are you in Brussels on 15-16 November? Interested? Get in touch.

Roundtable Discussions on Greening European Film Policy

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0200

Greening European Film Policy (GEFP) explores the burgeoning field of environmentally sustainable - ‘green’ - production in the European film industries. The project views green production as both an ethical proposition and a means to ensure the competitiveness of the European film industry - under which we include film, television, and streaming media. We position green production as a unique and as-yet unexplored competitive advantage for the film sector, where advanced development, embedding, and dissemination of green production practices is a crucial factor in maintaining the competitiveness, if not the very viability, of the European film industries.

GEFP focuses on mapping ongoing policy initiatives for green production and evaluate how the dynamics of top-down governance and horizontal policy and communication incentivise, deploy, and assess on-the-ground practice. We collaborate with key stakeholders across the UK and European green film and television sector, including policymakers, environmental consultants, production companies, and creatives to provide policy recommendations to incentivize a more sustainable sector.

Daniel Antal, CFA, was participating in the panel presentations and discussions on behalf of Reprex and presented the ideas behind the Eviota project.

The Budapest event was orgnanised by Dr Pietari Kääpä, University of Warwick, Policy Support Fund, Laurent, and GreenEyes Productions.

Questions for Film Funds and Policies

What are the current norms regarding funding and policy requirements around sustainability?
What challenges do you face in implementing or imposing sustainability policies?
Are there ways in which you might benefit from more communication or understanding of on-set experience from a sustainability POV?
Are there ways in which you might benefit from more regional or international collaboration, or is funding an inherently localized issue?
We mainly talked about sustainability from a production POV so far, where do you think featuring it as part of the storyline has relevance / potential? Is the film fund considering similar changes to what happened internationally (BFI, Eurimage etc.) where the funding applications require to elaborate on any planned sustainable practices?
What models do you think work well in other countries, that you think would be realistic to implement in the region and what is needed in order to implement it?

Sustainability measurement and reporting for the CFO

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0100

The Eviota project aims to create sustainability reports connected to the financial accounts of companies, NGOs, and civil society actors. The first phase concentrates on greenhouse gases and air pollutants. We want to create reliable estimates of the carbon and other pollutants footprint of music-related (social) enterprises based on their spending (“connected financial and sustainability reporting”.)

Reporting the impacts of the entire value chain.

16:30: Meet and greet
17:00: Short presentation
17:15: Discussion of your reporting

The discussion will be based on the accounting documents sent to us in advance. We will create a first version of a simplified sustainability report about your music or film company (for profit, or non-profit.) we will not share any financial information in the meetup, only visualizations of risk heatmaps, and common reporting and sustainability problems.

Why connect to your accounting software?

The accounting system already records all those economic events that may have an impact on how your company, directly or indirectly, causes greenhouse gas emissions, uses precious water, or may help to close (or, accidentally, widen) the gender pay gap.

As soon as the modification of the EU accounting directive take effect, you will have to connect your financial accounts to your sustainability reporting.

No extra management time is needed: it is already recorded by every company’s accountant. The general ledger is recorded by your accountant. We start from the annual summary of supplier and buyer ledgers, or the trial balance that has this information.
It is not subjective. It states exactly what you were spending on.
It is more or less standardized across Europe—and almost all countries of the world, with the exception of the U.S. and some other countries. It is easy to reconcile with US GAAP based documents.
We need to use the same working document that your accountant uses to maintain an important objectivity criterion: connectivity.

This way your annual report will be consistent, if you say in the financial part that you spend 1000 euro on energy, then we will calculate the greenhouse gas emissions based on KWh volume of the the energy that cost you 1000 euros.

New trends in controlling: the strategic and digital challenge

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 16:30:00 +0100

Reporting the impacts of the entire value chain.

16:30: Meet and greet
17:00: Short presentation
17:15: Discussion of your reporting

Why connect to your accounting software?

As soon as the modification of the EU accounting directive take effect, you will have to connect your financial accounts to your sustainability reporting.

No extra management time is needed: it is already recorded by every company’s accountant. The general ledger is recorded by your accountant. We start from the annual summary of supplier and buyer ledgers, or the trial balance that has this information.
It is not subjective. It states exactly what you were spending on.
It is more or less standardized across Europe—and almost all countries of the world, with the exception of the U.S. and some other countries. It is easy to reconcile with US GAAP based documents.
We need to use the same working document that your accountant uses to maintain an important objectivity criterion: connectivity.

Eviota Hungary

Fri, 03 Mar 2023 16:30:00 +0100

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Reporting the impacts of the entire value chain.

16:30: Meet and greet
17:00: Short presentation
17:15: Discussion of your reporting

Why connect to your accounting software?

As soon as the modification of the EU accounting directive take effect, you will have to connect your financial accounts to your sustainability reporting.

No extra management time is needed: it is already recorded by every company’s accountant. The general ledger is recorded by your accountant. We start from the annual summary of supplier and buyer ledgers, or the trial balance that has this information.
It is not subjective. It states exactly what you were spending on.
It is more or less standardized across Europe—and almost all countries of the world, with the exception of the U.S. and some other countries. It is easy to reconcile with US GAAP based documents.
We need to use the same working document that your accountant uses to maintain an important objectivity criterion: connectivity.

Magyarul

16:30: Találkozó, üdvözlet
17:00: Rövid prezentáció
17:15: Beszélgetés a vendég cégek adatai alapján

[Igény esetén 12.30-kor egy munkaebéddel egybekötött másik konzultációs alkalmat is tartunk.]

A beszélgetés előtt a vendégeket arra kérjük, hogy (a megfelelő titoktartási nyilatkozat aláírása után) küldjenek el pár főkönyvi kivonatot számunkra. Ez alapján a Reprex elkészít egy egyszerűsített, az éves beszámolóba opcionálisan beilleszhető, kapcsolt fenntarthatósági jelentést. A beszélgetés az érdeklődők valós adatain, számviteli kimutatásain alapul, de semmilyen bizalmas adat nem lesz látható. A beszélgetés célja, hogy valós számviteli alapoktól, egyszerű, egy óra alatt elkészíthető olyan egyszerűsített beszámolót készítsünk, ami segíthet zöld bankhitelek, zöld biztosítások, és fenntartható támogatások igénybevételére.

Egyre több nagyvállalati partner kér ilyen kimutatást akkor, ha a zenei cégek az értékláncukba, beszállítói láncukba kerülnek, vagy támogatást kérnek.
Egyre több EU-s és magyar támogatás fenntarthatósági beszámolóhoz kötött.
Idéntől egyre több bank és biztosító kínál az igazolhatóan fenntarhatóan gazdálkodó cégeknek kedvezőbb kondíciójú hitelt és biztosítást. A zeneipar számára különösen a biztosítási költségek csökkentése vonzó perspektíva.

LineCheck, Milano, IT

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 15:15:00 +0000

Tartalomjegyzék

Green Deal, this time for real

Daniel Antal, co-founder of Reprex will participate in the panel about on Thursday, November the 24th at 3.15pm about environment and sustainability in the music industry and introduce Eviota, our simplified, connected financial and sustainability reporting tool.

At LineCheck X, you can find out more about our projects

You can get a free, total value chain based sustainability report.
Find out how want to measure better with surveys gender diversity across Europe. And try our test surveys in English or Italian.
We will demonstrate how you can eradicate packaging waste from your music events by making the packaging edible.
And you can find out how we are trying to find where energy is going down the sewage, literally, with Thermowatt and the Green Deal Data Observatory.

Beta test our sustainabilitiy reporting tool

We are looking for beta testers for our simplified sustainability report that is made from your trial balance. We sign and NDA about your accounting data if you test with us, and you can test with older data, too. Beta testing is free.

Our solution benefits the music MSMEs and CSOs in several ways:

The European Commission estimates that the cost of connecting sustainability and finanical reporting will cost on average €10,000 for corporations. We want to bring down the voluntary reporting costs for MSMEs below €500 euro to benefit from green loans, green insurance and other green financing.
It provides them with a size adequate sustainability management and reporting tool that helps first the management of greenhouse gas emissions, and later sustainable water use, pollution, biodiversity, and recycling in their entire value chain (for example, it flags environmental risks in the supply base of a festival including equipment rentals, transport, security firms, catering facilities, etc.) by connecting standard accounting documents of the MSME with SNA and EEA science based benchmarks.
Our system will be extended to the management of social sustainability. We are also showcasing harmonized gender inequality data collection with our other project (see below.)

Download our poster presentation.

Digital Music Observatory: survive in the music business without a data engineer

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We will introduce Surveyharmonies, a survey recycling and survey harmonization tool. You can participate in our international gender bias survey in January 2023. Our team will also participate in the KeyChange Creative Lab on Friday, 25 November at 11.00.
You can learn about our Listen Local project, which helps local music ecosystems remain visible on global platforms.
We will offer you a cup of tea or coffee in an edible cup.

Harmonizing surveys on gender (in)equaliaty

Our Surveymonkey solution is better when you have many languages, or more complex questions, including watching a diagram, or showing a small video clip. It comes with a small fee. The Google Docs solutions (see or English or Italian demo will be offered for free.)

You can create better surveys with less cost: you only need to ask the information, or change of information, that is not included in our harmonized datasets. Shorter, better questionnaires, smaller samples sizes, huge cost savings.
When you make questionnaire-based research, you immediately get a history (the same question asked years ago) and an international comparison (the same question asked in other countries.)
Often you do not even have to pay for the survey, because somebody else has already made a similar taxpayer funded research and we can just get the data for you.

Survey harmonization is a powerful research tool to increase the usability of questionnaire-based empirical research. Read more on our blog.

Reprex Nominated for The Hague Innovators Award

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 09:00:00 +0000

Reprex was a finalist for The Hague Innovators Award 2022, and the prize of the audience, in the startup category with our respectable competitors, Sibö, WECO, STHRIVE and ECOBLOQ. We won the prize of the audience.

The transition towards a sustainable and inclusive economy depends on collaboration. That is why we are bringing together startups, scale-ups, investors, policymakers, and other impact makers from around the world in The Hague for the 7th edition of ImpactFest.

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With the The Hague Innovators Challenge, the municipality of The Hague challenges startups, scale-ups, and students to present their innovative ideas for global issues, as described in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The nominees receive a substantive program aimed at further development and the growth of the plan or organization. At the end of the substantive program, all nominees submit a definitive action plan and this is pitched to a professional jury. The jury chooses one winner per category.

Big Data for All: Building Collaborative Data Observatories, Eindhoven, NL

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 17:30:00 +0000

Reprex’s co-founder, Daniel Antal talked in the Eindhoven Innovation Café about these issues. You can watch the recorded version of the the livestream that starts at 5 minutes and 22 seconds:

This is a past event. Check out our forthcoming events or write to Daniel Antal or to antaldaniel. Or send an email.

The event invitation text and links

Big data and AI creates inequalities. It puts historically marginalized people, like ethnic minorities, and womxn, at a disadvantage. Because AI and checking on AI require plenty of data, usually only giant corporations, the wealthiest governments, and university entities can make it work for them. Reprex is a Hague-based, international startup that wants to impact various sustainable development goals by enabling smaller organizations to join their smaller datasets, use open data, create linked available data, and collaboratively make a change.

Reprex is a finalist for the Hague Innovation Award for impact startup (please 🙏, vote for us!). Daniel Antal, one of the co-founders, will talk about their approach to building an international coalition of music organizations to pool data and challenge data monopolies using organizational techniques, a collaboration ethos, and data from the open-source developer world.

Using the example of independent music creators, who often find themselves in a position where it is more expensive to claim their money from global platforms, he will talk about how to reduce inequalities in the world of big data and AI with collaboration on web 3.0. In the Q&A he will take questions on how to apply their know-how, and generally linked open data to other art+tech or creative segments or problems for which everybody is too small, like meeting the Paris Accord greenhouse gas targets bit by bit, small company by small company.

In the Q&A, we can discuss many things

How can Reprex help an individual creator in music, or in fashion and design, or any other area?
What sort of help it can give to researchers, research institutes, specialist consultancies, law firms, and other knowledge-based actors?

What sort of partners is Reprex looking for in Eindhoven?

Check out our projects

Digital Music Observatory and Listen Local
Cultural & Creative Sectors and Industries Observatory and short call for potential partners.
Green Deal Data Observatory and simple, connected, financial and sustainability reporting for creative enterprises and others

Reprex: the impact startup

Check out our accomplishments since the foundation in 2020

Listen Local Nederland, Utrecht, NL

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 17:00:00 +0000

We will carry out the research outlined in our feasibility study within the [OpenMuse] project from 1 January 2023 in an open collaboration with cultural policymakers, the local music ecosystem, and open source developers. Our partner, MXF tries to put the findings into actionable data services in Lithuania and Ukraine with the help of MusicAire. We develop open tools that can be applied in Utrecht, the Hague, Budapest, Tallinn, Vilnius, Bratislava, or anywhere.

This is a past event. Check out our forthcoming events or write to Daniel Antal or to antaldaniel. Or send an email.

Our ongoing project since 2014 is Listen Local. We would like to find out how can a local music ecosystem, or a small scene avoid being colonized by global players on streaming platforms, radio, or in-store music. How can we make sure that music recommendations connect bands in Utrecht with fans in Utrecht? If a Polish band is visiting Utrecht, music lovers will find their show?

We are arriving at opening to Klein Berlijn at 17.00 where you can sit down with a coffee or a beer to chat. No reservation needed. At 19.30 we are getting on our OV fiets and cycle over to the Vechtclub where we will meet people of the local indie scene, Tiny Rooms, and see two independent bands on stage.

As the sales and promotion of recorded music get fully automated, and even the curation of music for live events gets more and more influenced by machine learning outcomes or social media metrics, how can a DIY label remain relevant? How you can run a small club or a label without having to invest in a multi-million euro data engineering team? Make sure that the algorithm will learn successfully your music offering.

‘I feel at home where people care’ Read Gabija’s interview and check out the band with us.

Reprex’s motto is big data for all. We want to fight data inequalities, data monopolies, and make big data and AI work for self-released artists or small labels, too.

Gabija and Daniel are visiting Utrecht to meet DIY musicians, labels, researchers, fans and friends to find new partners for our Listen Local projects. On an intellectual level, we are interested in trustworthy AI, data feminism, and providing a proper digital representation to music and live performances for all. On a more emotional level, we want to meet musicians and music lovers from the indie scene.

We want to help independent artists to find their next audience, and fans to find their next favorite record or a truly fulfilling live music experience. Gabija had a conversation with The Kurws in our Listen Local Interviews series. She asked the band about where they are coming from, where they want to go? Where they are local? And what they have to offer to the people who will join us on 31 October 2022 in Utrecht?

Check out our projects

Digital Music Observatory and Listen Local
Cultural & Creative Sectors and Industries Observatory and short call for potential partners.
Make interviews, get interviewed, write blog posts, or syndicate our content to and from Data & Lyrics.
Don’t forget to vote for Reprex in the Hague Innovators Award competition 2022. The audience voting starts on 1 November 2022.
Download our submission for the competition.
Get in touch!

Music and Creative Industry Indicators from Needs Assessment to Automated Production, Bratislava, SK

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 11:30:00 +0000

This is a past event. Check out our forthcoming events or write to Daniel Antal or to antaldaniel. Or send an email.

We would like to present an open invitation for a collaboration to help the Slovak government, the national assembly, and various civil and business societies to build and monitor evidence-based policies based on the experience of the music sector. We will use the Open Policy Analysis Guidelines and the best European evidence-based policy design practice that facilitate the creation and use of transparent evidence in the entire policy cycle from design to ex post evaluation.

In the context of the OpenMuse project within the Horizon Europe framework program we would like to build on the results of the Slovak Music Industry Report and the Feasibility Study On Promoting Slovak Music In Slovakia & Abroad and show how modern open source statistical software and data science can help the slovak music industry, and more generally, the Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries (CCSI).

In the 2023-2025 period we would like to develop at least two ‘smart policy documents’ and accompanying live dashboards to present all available data and textual evidence.

The Smart Policy Document template for Music economy, with an emphasis on increasing the value added and employment of Slovak music sector.
The Smart Policy Document template for Music diversity and circulation, with an emphasis on monitoring the music’s national market share in radio, streaming, educations.

Agenda:

Mária Kmety Barteková, PhD will present our Consortium’s ideas on designing policy and key business indicators that fit into the Slovak national creative and cultural sectors and industries policy agenda, and organize the data collection, processing, reporting, evaluation and feedback loop in practice.
Daniel Antal, CFA, the author of the Slovak Music Industry Report, will explain how our building Music and CCSI Data Observatories can help the synchronization of busienss and policy knowledge of the Slovak institutions with global knowledge hubs such as streaming platforms, industry databases, Wikipedia/Dbpedia/Freedb, Music brains, and national libraries.

Slovenská jazyková verzia

Projekt OpenMuse, ktorý tvorí veľké konzorcium partnerov vrátane SOZA a Ekonomickej univerzity v Bratislave, bol úspešný vo výzve Horizon Europe s názvom: Towards a competitive, fair and sustainable European music ecosystem a momentálne je v procese podpise grantovej dohody s Európskou komisiou.

Sme presvedčení, že budovanie európskych hudobných ekosystémov na konkurencieschopnejších, spravodlivejších a udržateľnejších základoch si vyžaduje dôslednú tvorbu politík a obchodné plánovanie založené na dôkazoch. To si zase vyžaduje vyplniť medzery v dostupných údajoch identifikované v štúdii uskutočniteľnosti pre Európske hudobné observatórium (náš predbežný návrh riešenia v rámci projektu Horizont Europe si môžete pozrieť tu.)

Pomocou transparentných metód a nástrojov OpenMuse mapuje oblasť politík a zber údajov; vypĺňa medzery v existujúcich údajoch a umožňuje zainteresovaným stranám a tvorcom politík prijímať opatrenia založené na presných dátach. Projekt OpenMuse je založený na princípoch otvorenej analýzy politík, otvorenej vedy a vývoja softvéru s otvoreným zdrojovým kódom. Spolupracujeme so zainteresovanými stranami na identifikácii medzier v údajoch na úrovni EÚ, na národnej a regionálnej úrovni s cieľom spoluvytvárať relevantné ukazovatele a metódy ich premostenia; vyvíjať bezplatné softvérové nástroje na zber a analýzu údajov; a hlásiť nielen naše zistenia, ale každý krok, ktorý sme podnikli na ich dosiahnutie vo verejne dostupných dokumentoch.

ImpactCity Startup Support XL, The Hague, NL

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 09:00:00 +0000

Reprex is a research automation company with an international team and clientele. We validated our product/market fit in the Yes!Delft AI+Blockchain Lab in 2020 and started to build research automation tools for complex data problems with a fast-growing user base and a very high-level international recognition in the EU and the UK. Our dual product offers us to participate in large data platform PPP projects and find growth opportunities in building data-driven commercial applications simultaneously. We want to scale up our operations in the Hague, where we are registered.

Reprex is a finalist for The Hague Innovators Challenge and the prize of the audience.
Download this information in 1 page. | Check out our pitch deck

Our platform solution is a modernized, future-proof, web 3.0 version of the data observatories of the EU, UN, and OECD.

About 60 large data observatories worldwide serve numerous consultancies, universities, NGOs, and other knowledge-based organizations with consistent information collection and processing. We want to power at least 10% of these global knowledge infrastructures in 5 years because we think our technology is superior to almost all of them. By providing essential services to them, we get access to the data ecosystems of prime governmental, academic, and large corporate users. Our central position in one mature and four emerging observatories allows us to provide shared services to for-profit and non-profit organizations that do not have a data science/engineering team.

We also have a compelling proposition to an organization that had built large database systems that became quickly obsolete: we offer them an alternative to rigid relational databases. We provide these organizations with competitive data acquisition, processing, knowledge management, and documentation services, which enables even very small commercial or civil society partners to deploy (ethical) AI.

After winning a very competitive Horizon Europe Research and Innovation tender, we are upgrading our Digital Music Observatory to be an officially recognized, shared data resource of the European music sector.

Our observatories are PPP data ecosystems that create many jobs, not only in our startup but in their city ecosystems, too. As a permanent EU organization similar to the European Audiovisual Observatory, it can create up to 35 crucial knowledge jobs in Strasbourg. We want to join forces with the Hague, the Europeana (the EU cultural heritage body in the Hague), the PAARD, and other actors to make the permanent place of the European Music Observatory in the Hague. This work connects mainly to SGD Goal 5 (detecting algorithmic biases against womxn) and SDG Goal 8 (decent work for creative freelancers and protecting their income from global data monopolies).

We would also like to attract at least one more European or global observatory to the city. Our beachhead/flagship ecosystem is in music. We started expanding towards the related film, gaming, fashion, architecture, and other copyright-based industries. We also discovered function-specific uses that allowed us to go into commercially far more lucrative directions: we started building a computational antitrust and an environmental and social reporting supporting green observatory.

The banking, financial and antitrust regulators are forcing first the 49,000 large EU companies by 2024, then the SMEs and e-commerce platforms to provide auditable accounts of their environmental and social impacts in their entire value chains.

Listen Local Utrecht

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 18:30:00 +0000

Our Listen Local project aims to develop tools that can be used by independent labels and self-releasing artists to make sure that their music finds relevant audiences in their scene, in their geographical environment and abroad.

The purpose of the meetup is to provide an informal setting to get to know each other, or exchange ideas and get into action. RSV on Eventbrite, on Keybase or via the contact form.

We are working with leading EU and UK universities and industry associations to find out why sometimes Utrecht-based music is not recommended to people in Utrecht on streaming platforms? Or how we could build applications that bring the local music ecosystem into the attention of visitors, tourists? Or how we could build games or educational applications that help local youth, pupils, students, educators, with artists in their town, and expand their music discovery to the province, their country, neighboring countries, instead of only recommending a few artists from New York, London, Rio de Janeiro or Seoul.

With the help of MusicAIRE and Horizon Europe, Europe’s premiere research and innovation grant, we are building open source tools to help to solve these problems, or allow other developers to build new applications and games.

Reprex is a member of the Dutch AI Coalition’s Culture and Media Working Group. The Dutch AI Coalition wants to make sure that algorithms work for all. This informal event will take place after the annual gathering of the working group from 9.00-18.00, with working groups members optional visit the Culture AI Lab.

Interested in the Dutch AI Coalition event?

If you are interested in those professional events, get in touch with us on Keybase or via the contact form.

Dutch AI Coalition Working Group Culture and Media

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 09:30:00 +0000

Reprex is presenting its Digital Music Observatory and Cultural Creative Sectors Industries Data Observatory as platforms for developing and evaluating trustworthy AI in the cultural domains. We hope to find new partners within the NLAIC community to join our open, collaborative projects.

Learn more about the Dutch AI Coalition’s Cultur and Media Working Group (in Dutch:)

Listen Local Lithuania, Vilnius, LT

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:30:00 +0000

Daniel Antal will introduce Listen Local Lithuania, a new offspring of the Digital Music Observatory’s trustworthy AI program, Listen Local, and show what artists, managers, labels, and cultural policymakers can do to ideas about balancing the post-Covid revenues with increased sales on global platforms.

Based on our experience in Slovakia (see: Feasibility Study On Promoting Slovak Music In Slovakia & Abroad), and new data from Lithuania and Ukraine we show what data management problems make the Lithuanian music invisible for the AI algorithms of YouTube, Spotify and other platforms; how artists from Vilnius or Kaunas can find their new release on Forgetify, and app that plays songs that were never played. We show why music revenues decreased in the past years for independent and small country catalogues, and we give practical advice on increasing the value and visibility of the Lithuanian music repertoire. We show an open, data federation model to connect the Lithuanian national library the system of collective management, distributors, and small data of artists and labels.

Prepare your questions

Do you want to know why your music is not recommended by streaming platforms? Are you interested in finding new Lithuanian music that fits into your radio or festival programming but your are stuck? You can send questions prior to the conference to the speaker, Daniel Antal, and we’ll address your problem with examples in the talk.

Opt-in

You can opt-in into our database before or during the conference, and we will give you tailored analysis about your data quality, and your opportunities to place your music to new audiences in Lithuania and abroad.

Venue

The talk will be in the what’s next in music conference or follow them on Facebook. Participation is free but requires registration. (We will post shortly more details on this.)

The time set for the talk is EEST Vilnius time (GMT+02.00).

Not available?

You can meet the project’s manager and the speaker on 10 September in Kaunas, at the closing event of what’s next in music.

Background

Listen Local Lithuania is supported by the European Union’s MusicAIRE, an EU-funded project that aims to provide tailored-made instruments for the sector and contribute to a green, digital, just, and resilient recovery of the music ecosystem. It is managed by MXF in collaboration with Music Export Ukraine and Reprex.

MXF and the outcomes of the Listen Local Lithuania will participate in the OpenMusE project, an international research and innovation project with prestigious universities, music industry stakeholders, collective management organizations, and innovative SMEs to design tools that promote the diversity of music on global platforms, increase the revenues and decrease the data costs of music organizations, provide cultural policymakers with the Open Policy Analysis framework the first time in Europe. This open collaboration project funded for 2023-2025 is open for small and large music organizations, collective management organizations, libraries, and cultural policymakers.

Digital Music Observatory on the MaMA Convention 2021, Paris, FR

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Currently more than half of the global music sales are made by autonomous AI systems owned by Google, Apple, or Spotify. These data monopolies are getting rich, because they reap the profit from music businesses with an average employee count of 1.8 Europe. European music businesses are easy to exploit with armies of data engineers and data scientists because they do not have a single data scientist or even an IT function.

Artists in the UK had a difficulty explaining in Westminster how they are losing out in streaming– so we have created a streaming price index, like the Dow Jones, if you like, that explains the economic factors of the devaluation of music in the last 5 years in 20 countries. (See our report.)
Music organizations in Slovakia and Hungary were frustrated that their politicians and journalists believed music to be taxpayer funded, so we showed with data that they contribute more proportionally to the national budget than car manufacturers, the darling of local politicians (See our reports in Hungary (recast several times) and in Slovakia.)
We successfully challenged with data restaurant associations, hotel chains, telecom corporations and broadcasters who wanted to bring music prices down in court and via lobbying.

The music industry has envied the television and film industry which has a single go-to-point for data when it needs them, the European Audiovisual Observatory. It started lobbying for a publicly financed music observatory. But we did not wait. The music industry has a tragic track record of failed centralized international data projects. We built Reprex out of a 12-country, decentralized music project. We learned how to utilize hidden, but already existing data and research funds well, and how to manage the data governance among the poisonous conflicts of interests between rich and poor countries, authors vs producers, producer’s vs performers.

Our Digital Music Observatory is not theoretical, it is practical, because it is built around real-life court cases, damage claims, lobbying and PR arguments.
Our Digital Music Observatory is comprehensive – it contains more than a thousand indicators from all European countries. We have enough data to test the biases of the Spotify or the YouTube algorithm – you would be surprised what the data tells us.
It has data available much sooner, in much higher quality and in a more practical format than in the Audiovisual one.

Presentation Slides

You can see the presentation slides here.

Reprex Open Data Day 2021

Sat, 06 Mar 2021 15:30:00 +0200

Open Data Day is an annual celebration of open data all over the world. It is an opportunity to show the benefits of open data and encourage the adoption of open data policies in government, business, and civil society. Reprex is a start-up that utilizes open data with open-source reproducible research: please challenge us with your data requests and participate in our web events.

The Reprex Open Data Day 2021 will be two informal conversations based on a series of run up introductory blogposts centered around two themes. Because important guests became ill in the last days, we are going to consolidate the two talks into one with less structure. We want to create an informal, inclusive, collaborative online event on International Open Data Day 2021. Please, grab a tea, coffee, or even a beer, and join us for an informal conversation. We hope that we will finish the afternoon with ideas on new, open-data driven collaborations.

9.30 EST / 15.30 CET: Open collaboration in business, policy and science. Creating evidence-based policy, business strategy or scientific research with small contributions with independent components with incentives. Short introduction with examples: joining environmental sensory data and public opinion data on maps; creating harmonized datasets across the Arab world. Survey harmonization, mapping, data products. Scaling up open collaboration: making small organizations competitive with big tech in the big data era. Data sharing, data pooling, data altruism and observatories. The new European trustworthy AI and data governance agenda.

You can click through a short presentation to familiarize yourself with our topics.

See you here.

Case studies:

We are connecting raw survey data about Climate Awareness in Eurobarometer surveys. Here is the reproduction code (intermediate to advanced R needed.) You should use the development version of our retroharmonize package at github.com/antaldaniel/retroharmonize
We are tracking changes in the boundaries of provinces, states, counties, parishes with our regions open source software – reproduction code here. You will need our regions package which is available on CRAN or in the rOpenGov GitHub repo.
We will talk about how to join this with air pollution data and put it on the map with Milos Popovic, who prepared this nice choropleth animation.

We will discuss data observatories (permanent data collection programs), open collaboration (open-source inspired way of cooperation among small and large independent actors) and data altruism.

Any questions: send Daniel a message on Keybase, Whatsapp or email.

Reprex introduction in IVIR, Amsterdam, NL

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 10:10:00 +0000

IViRtual 9 April 2021

Recent & Upcoming Events | Antal Dániel honlapja

Open Access Music Dataspaces – Open Music Observatory

Wikibase as a Data Sharing Space: Connecting Rights, Communities, and GLAM through Federated Infrastructures

Key Ideas

Examples

Next Steps

Livestream recording

Brace for Impact: Trustworthy AI for Good

Key Idea

Next Steps

WikiMuseum = GLAM Wiki + Wikibase + Data Sharing Space

Highlights

Next steps

Livestream recording

Workshop on Metadata Sharing for Small Labels, Libraries, and Collectors

Who should attend?

Why attend?

Practical details

TextileBase: Introduction

Topics For Discussion

Wikibase Interfaces

SPARQL Endpoint

Sampo UI

Interoperability of Music Libraries and Archives with Public and Private Music Services

Wikibase Interfaces

SPARQL Endpoint

Sampo Semantic Browser

Next steps

Finno-Ugric Data Sharing Space

What are the competencies of the system that we are building?

SKCMDb Presentation on IAMIC 2024

Building a music data sharing space with Wikibase

Federating the Slovak Music Dataspace: Replication in Hungary

Dataweek²⁴: Introducing a new European music dataspace

Hackathon Registers of Cultural Entities

Existing registers

Expected solution

From Slovakia Towards a European Music Dataspace

Lightning Talk About the Slovak Music Dataspace

ESRS in the Film, Television & Music Industry

IDCC24 Lightning Talk Session

Stadslandbouw Den Haag

MusicAIRE: Final Event

Future Proof Film Production Data for Integrated ESG Reporting

Semantic Enriching of The Historical Photo Collection

Categorizing Cultural & Creative Sectors: An Impossible Task?

Roundtable Discussions on Greening European Film Policy

Sustainability measurement and reporting for the CFO

New trends in controlling: the strategic and digital challenge

Eviota Hungary

Magyarul

LineCheck, Milano, IT

Green Deal, this time for real

Beta test our sustainabilitiy reporting tool

Digital Music Observatory: survive in the music business without a data engineer

Harmonizing surveys on gender (in)equaliaty

Reprex Nominated for The Hague Innovators Award

Big Data for All: Building Collaborative Data Observatories, Eindhoven, NL

The event invitation text and links

In the Q&A, we can discuss many things

Check out our projects

Reprex: the impact startup

Listen Local Nederland, Utrecht, NL

Check out our projects

Music and Creative Industry Indicators from Needs Assessment to Automated Production, Bratislava, SK

Slovenská jazyková verzia

ImpactCity Startup Support XL, The Hague, NL

Listen Local Utrecht

Dutch AI Coalition Working Group Culture and Media

Listen Local Lithuania, Vilnius, LT

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Venue

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Background

Digital Music Observatory on the MaMA Convention 2021, Paris, FR

Presentation Slides

Reprex Open Data Day 2021

Reprex introduction in IVIR, Amsterdam, NL