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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.

Music and Creative Industry Indicators from Needs Assessment to Automated Production

Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:42:00 +0200

Invitation for an open collaboration

Digital Music Observatory | Listen Local Slovakia

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Presentation outline

Part I: Daniel Antal, CFA introduces the OpenMuse project [general aims, methodology, work packages], and our offering to Slovak CCSI stakeholders.
Part II: Mária Kmety Barteková, PhD our offering for indicator design and creation, methodology, timeline, quality control.
Part III: Questions and identification of partners and data sources.

Part I: Slovakia as the best practice

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Part I: OpenMuse offering

Topics

WP1 Slovak creators, including music creators, should earn as much as the European average. Their income should level up to German and Finnish levels.
WP2 Slovak people should find good Slovak music in Lithuania on Spotify, YouTube and the radio. Foreign labels must not increase their market share and colonize the local creative ecosystem.
WP3 Correctly attributing the environmental and social benefits (and costs) of music.
WP4 Making sure that big data and AI works for all. Tap into open data, linked open data, bring the creative sectors to the web 3.0.

Offering Tools

Smart policy documents
Dashboards
Open source software

Bridging the data gap

Data gaps are illusorty

Open Data Directive
Survey recycling

Harmonized data collecton

Survey recycling

Sampling big data

Open Data Directive

Offering methodology

Open Policy Analysis, “Live Policy Documents”
Slovak music market share
Indicator design and high-quality, reproducible indicator creation

Valuations

AI & Data Policies

Trustworthy AI, trustworthy data in culture

Is the algorithm cheating? ➡️ trustworthy AI policy, enabling courts, competition and consumer protection agencies to protect the Slovak CCIs
Is the algorithm learning from bad data? ➡️ national heritage policy, consolidate Slovak CCI data as linked, open data, and sync it daily with the world.
Can we ask for 20% Slovak music in radio, television, YouTube or Spotify?

Topics:
 - European AI regulation and ethics, music AI,
 - non-discriminiation and fair remuneration for
 Slovakia's creators.
 - Smart and future proof local content and media
 regulation, music export, cultural heritage.

Features:
 - The policy brief itself expressed as a resource,
 not a static file that is once finished and downloaded.
 - It is an educational document in itself, it is
 self-refreshing with data, legal and policy texts
 - We educate policy-makers and music professionals
 to talk, write and think about AI in a smart way.

Part II: Indicators

Open Policy Analysis

Role of Cultural Policy Makers

Define the needs within the cultural policymaking in Slovakia
Share already collected data about the cultural entities (from music industry)
Assess the proposed music industry indicators

Indicators: example

Type and extent of side jobs among Slovak musicians
Average number of copyright protected works and neighboring rights protected recordings per musician

Indicators: side job

Define a side job. Develop a strategy to ask or measure it correctly.
Characterize the side job (which other [creative] industry has the performance)
Divide it with the correct number of musicians.

Indicators: copyrights

Define a musician. What type of intellectual property a musician has?
Develop a strategy to ask/measure the number of works/recordings per musician.
Develop a strategy to count/measure number of musicians.
Divide works/recordings with the number of musicians

Who shall we ask?

We would like to involve all relevant policy stakeholders: ministry, parliament, NGOs, government organizations
The Open Policy Analysis allows the involvement of citizens, individual experts, small organizations.

Invitation for an open collaboration

Click for Contacts: Digital Music Observatory | Listen Local Lithuania | LaLa for Artists | Lala for Fans | Open Policy Analysis

Potential Extra Slides

Trustworthy AI

Dutch AI Coalition Working Group Culture and Media

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 19:30:00 +0200

Reprex presented 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.

We have reviewed more than 80 data observatories in the world, and we are building five modern ones.

It was particularly important for us to get away from the Hague, and meet organizations like DEN and the KB to find out how our ambitious plans could connect to their excellent work. Reprex is a finalist in the Hague Innovators Challenge 2022, and we would like to bring at least one global observatory, the planned European Music Observatory, into our beautiful and smart city. While knowledge graphs are virtual and live in the web 3.0, the Dutch AI Coalition and the country’s future competitiveness need to ensure that essential knowledge graphs will be managed by the ecosystem of Netherlands-based researchers, institutions, and startups. The ethical consciousness shown by the members of our Culture AI Lab shows that it is probably the best for future human generations globally, too.

The SABIO is one of the most interesting in the world and couuld be connected easily with our Cultural Creative Sectors Industries Data Observatory prototype.

The Culture AI Lab presented a handful of very interesting, ethical and interesting projects. Pressing Matter responds to growing concerns in the Netherlands and Europe about how to deal with the legacies of colonialism in museums and builds innovative tools for museums (and broader society) to address the question of ownership of objects collected in the colonial period. Dr Emily Hansell Clark, former editor of our Data&Lyrics blog, presented the Polyvocal Interpretation of Contested Colonial Heritage project.

Both projects are conceptually and technologically relevant to our Listen Local project. Our project aims to prevent the colonization or start the de-colonization of the local music ecosystem and make local artists of Utrecht, Vilnius, or Sarajevo visible and audible in their own cities’ public spaces or on the smartphones of their town.

The most compelling use case of Listen Local project is finding out why music recommender systems do not recommend some music at all. Or why is it so hard to connect Utrecht-based artists with fans living or visiting Utrecht on the Spotify or YouTube platform? The Responsible Recommenders in the Public Library Sector is looking for similar answers for librarians to avoid all recommendations to visitors pointing to U.S. authors and publishers.

Savvina Daniil’s excellent presentation raised very similar questions to our Feasibility Study On Promoting Slovak Music In Slovakia & Abroad.

Our deep dive into legislative and regulatory issues of AI highlighted that the past decade unleashed global web-based tools that have the potential to undermine our democratic and cultural cohesion. Reassuringly, we have seen that our thinking about the dangers of AI on European culture and the technological solutions to combat them are very widely shared by NLAIC Culture and Media members. We hope that our partners’ policy work in the Digital Music Observatory and our forming new observatories will support policy design and decision-making that will protect the Netherlands and the EU from some of these threats.

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

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:)