Metadata

A practical one-day workshop on how small labels, libraries, and private collectors can benefit from the new Open Music Europe / OpenMusE data sharing infrastructure, with a focus on the Slovak and Hungarian music data spaces.

Exploring how music library services can modernize to rival major platforms, improve sheet music access for all musicians, and connect communities to local music despite limited resources.

We invite IAML members—national libraries, regional centres, municipal collections, and independent music librarians—to join us in building a federated, decentralised European Music Observatory.

We built a multilingual gazetteer for a few villages on the Livonian coast. It accidentally solved problems that plague music metadata, e-commerce catalogs, and enterprise CRMs.

Early technical report on the Open Music Observatory, documenting design and proof-of-concept prior to full data integration. Updated edition coming soon.

While the US have already taken steps to provide an integrated data space for music as of 1 January 2021, the EU is facing major obstacles not only in the field of music but also in other creative industry sectors. Weighing costs and benefits, there can be little doubt that new data improvement initiatives and sufficient investment in a better copyright data infrastructure should play a central role in EU copyright policy. Preprint of our article with copyright researchers.

This influential article analyses how Europe can strengthen the visibility and accessibility of its cultural and creative works by …