Milano | Daniel Antal

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.

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Big Data Creates Inequalities

Only the largest corporations, best-endowed universities, and rich governments can afford data collection and processing capacities that are large enough to harness the advantages of AI.

Data problems


	The cost of questionnaire-based market research (survey) is increasing exponentially and offers mediocre results without an enormous question bank and harmonization with other surveys.(See 🖱 blogpost)
	Manual data acquisition is an error-prone and boring task for humans that requires many working hours (often not credited in consultancies, law firms, or research institutes.)
	Wrangling spreadsheet tables or word processor documents by people without data knowledge is the 🖱 data Sisyphus.

Data observatories 3.0

Reprex is offering shared data ecosystems. Our observatories are great solutions for organizations without a data specialization:


🌳 Organizations that cannot afford to build a large enough data team to sustain consistent, extensive data collection and processing (many large institutions and companies)
🪴 Who cannot hire even a single data engineer or a data scientist (medium-sized companies, NGOs)
🌱 Who do not even have a permanent IT function (about 2 million European small enterprises and civil society organizations)


	The European Union, the World Bank, OECD, and UN have facilitated the creation of more than 80 so-called ‘data observatories’ to help companies, researchers, NGOs, and governments systematically collect data and knowledge.
	We are currently building one prototype for the European Music Observatory financed by the European Union and music industry players (cc 3-4 million euros.) We would like to take over existing or start new observatories in 2 years at least 5)
	Our observatories are competitive, because they use high-quality open source scientific software; they exploit the new Data Governance Act and Open Data Directive, deploy web 3.0 data synchronization, and offer great value-added research products.

Platform products	Value added data applications
The European Union, the World Bank, OECD, and UN have facilitated the creation of more than 80 so-called ‘data observatories’ to help companies, researchers, NGOs, and governments systematically collect data and knowledge.	The different observatories offer different types of knowledge products, such as statistical yearbooks, various apps, and database access.
Most of them use web 1.0 technologies, inefficient knowledge accumulation. Already 20 of them have been discontinued.	We are developing software solutions that exploit our platforms: we harmonize surveys, statistical data, automate research reporting, elements of market monitoring or ESG reporting.
We are currently building one prototype for the European Music Observatory financed by the European Union and music industry players (cc 3-4 million euros.) We would like to take over existing or start new observatories in 2 years at least 5)	Each observatory gives us intimidate customer access to 3-4 large universities, 1-2 large consultancies, and various specialist institutions.

Team


	The two co-founders, 🖱 Daniel Antal, CFA and 🖱 Andrés García Molina, PhD, and the core team manage the ecosystems’ development, develop knowledge management, and direct the software development. 🖱 Team on full screen
	Each observatory has a broader team of users, data and knowledge curators, and developers. The most developed 🖱️ Digital Music Observatory has 16 institutional users and a team of about 20 music and data professionals. The newer observatories have a smaller, initial service development and data curatorial team.

Dutch AI Coalition


💻 Reprex is a member of the Dutch AI Coalition 🖱 click and we help building algorithms that work for all, small and large music organizations, non-profits and commercial ones.
♎ Reprex believes that unequal access to data, data know-how and tools creates inequalities in the benefits in AI.
🚀 Our Listen Local Apps 🖱 click want to make sure that local ecosystems are not colonized by global platforms.

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Data observatory 3.0

A Reprex közös adat ökoszisztémákat kínál olyanok szervezeteknek, akik nem képesek adat specialistákat foglalkoztatni állandóan:


🌳 Olyan szervezetek, amelyek nem rendelkeznek adat szakértőkkel, és nem képesek hosszú távon adatgyűtjési programokat és adatfeldolgozást végezni.
🪴 Nem képesek adat mérnököket és adattudósokat, statisztikusat foglalkoztatni állandóan. (KKV, NGOk)
🌱 Nincsen állandó IT funkció a cégben (kb 20 million európai kisvállalkozás és civil szervezet)


	Az Európai Unió, a Világbank, az OECD és az ENSz több mint 80 úgynevezett ‘data observatory’ platformot, hogy segítse az érdekelt vállalatokat, kutatókat, NGO-kat, kormányzati szereplőket abban, hogy szisztematikusan gyűjtsenek adatokat és rendszerezzenek, osszanak meg tudást.
	Jelenleg a European Music Observatory prototípusán dolgozunk az Európai Bizottság támogatásával (cc 3-4 million euros.) Később hasonló obszervatóriumokat tervezünk más kreatív szektorokban is.
	Az obszervatóriumaink azért kompetitívek, mert magas minőségű, open source tudományos szoftverekre épülnkek, és kihasználják a Data Governance Act és az Open Data Directive előnyeit, valamint a web 3.0 technikai lehetőségeit.

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🧾 Az adatbázisok manuális munka nélkül, számítógépek automatiálzt kommunikációjával szinkronizálhatók-e más adatbázisokkal (Linked Open Data, RDF, web 3.0 vagy szemantikus web)?.
🧾 A strukturáltan gyűjtött adatok (kérdőívek a közönség körében, vagy más szisztematikusan gyűjtött kérdőívek) fogalmi és kérdőív-struktúra szintjén harmonizáltak-e más azonos adatokkal (pl. A közönség kérdőív az országban elérhető más kérdőívekkel? A rendezvény adatai megfelelnek-e a schema.org vagy más szabványosító szervezet rendezvény adatainak?)


🎶 Surveyharmonies 🖱 click is our first experimental product that allows you to recycle surveys from all over Europe.
☑️ You ask questions about gender inequalities in many languages (try it EN IT and you get responses from your audience and more than 30,000 other people in various occupational groups all over Europe.
☿️ Join our pan-European gender inequality survey in January 2023.


♯ Listen Local is a 🖱 click trustworthy, ethical AI-powered system that aims to help great artists in small organizations and small countries using big data.
🎶 Our Listen Local Apps want to make sure that local ecosystems are not colonized by global platforms.

Big Data Creates Inequalities

Only the largest corporations, best-endowed universities, and rich governments can afford data collection and processing capacities that are large enough to harness the advantages of AI.

Data problems


	The cost of questionnaire-based market research (survey) is increasing exponentially and offers mediocre results without an enormous question bank and harmonization with other surveys.(See 🖱 blogpost)
	Manual data acquisition is an error-prone and boring task for humans that requires many working hours (often not credited in consultancies, law firms, or research institutes.)
	Wrangling spreadsheet tables or word processor documents by people without data knowledge is the 🖱 data Sisyphus.

Platform products	Value added data applications
The European Union, the World Bank, OECD, and UN have facilitated the creation of more than 80 so-called ‘data observatories’ to help companies, researchers, NGOs, and governments systematically collect data and knowledge.	The different observatories offer different types of knowledge products, such as statistical yearbooks, various apps, and database access.
Most of them use web 1.0 technologies, inefficient knowledge accumulation. Already 20 of them have been discontinued.	We are developing software solutions that exploit our platforms: we harmonize surveys, statistical data, automate research reporting, elements of market monitoring or ESG reporting.
We are currently building one prototype for the European Music Observatory financed by the European Union and music industry players (cc 3-4 million euros.) We would like to take over existing or start new observatories in 2 years at least 5)	Each observatory gives us intimidate customer access to 3-4 large universities, 1-2 large consultancies, and various specialist institutions.

Dutch AI Coalition


💻 Reprex is a member of the Dutch AI Coalition 🖱 click and we help building algorithms that work for all, small and large music organizations, non-profits and commercial ones.
♎ Reprex believes that unequal access to data, data know-how and tools creates inequalities in the benefits in AI.
🚀 Our Listen Local Apps 🖱 click want to make sure that local ecosystems are not colonized by global platforms.

Questions?

🖱 Click the blue links | email | keybase

Reprex: Daniel Antal | Gabija Liaugminaitė | Reprex—big data that works for all

Milano | Daniel Antal

Open Access Music Dataspaces – Open Music Observatory

Reprex

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Big Data Creates Inequalities

Data problems

Data observatories 3.0

Team

Dutch AI Coalition

Questions?

Reprex

MTPA MeetUP

Antal Dániel, CFA - Reprex

2022. december 12.

Navigáció

Data observatory 3.0

Hogyan célszerű rendezvényekről gondolkodni?

Big Data Creates Inequalities

Data problems

Dutch AI Coalition

Questions?