The Europeana Music CollectionsDiscover the music collections of Europe!David Haskiya | EVA/MINERVA, Jerusalem, 2015-11-09

Danse de trois faunes et trois bacchantes, Hieronymus Hopfer, Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon , Public Domain

Outline of my talk•An introduction to Europeana Collections

•An explanation of what thematic collections are

•A more in-depth presentation of the Europeana Music Collections

•Target audience and personas

•Content overview

•Demo

•Launch timeline and future developments

•How to get involved

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PersonasSegmented by needs, behaviour and themes of interest

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Europeana Collections•Updated design and branding

•Improved media facets to find and download content that meet

specific technical quality criteria (combinable with copyright)

•Thematic collections capability added (Music being the first of them!)

•Introduction of browse functionalities

•Aim is to meld discovery, curated exhibitions, blog posts and, later,

user contributions into one coherent user experience

What is it? How does it differ from the current portal?

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Thematic Collections

•Subsets of high-quality thematic content matching a theme with

their own curated landing pages that make them into “mini-portals”

of their own

•To make the Europeana platform into an active publication platform

for our partners and to allow for more focused targeting of audiences

•To begin with 4 - 6. If they work well between 12 -18 by 2020.

•First 4 will be on the themes of 1. Music 2. Art History 3. Fashion and

4. Newspapers.

What are they? Why are you creating them? How many will be created?

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The Music Collections•Music recordings. Mostly classical music and folk music.

•Sheet music (printed and manuscripts) and libretti

•Images - prints, paintings, photographs, etc. - of musical

instruments, composers, performers and performances

•Books and other texts about the history of music, composers and

performers (small amounts)

•Newsreels and other moving image recordings (minimal amounts)

•NOTE: Only records with direct media links will be featured in the

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Let’s do a live demo! (What could go wrong?)

Link is http://music.europeana.eu

National Library of France, Public DomainAgence de presse Mondial Photo-Presse,

Tournoi royal de motos à Londres : changement d'une roue de side-car en marche

Launch timeline •August - public Alpha

•Mid-December, Beta release

•February 2016 - 1.0 release

•Further releases throughout

2016• A larger release every 3-4 months

• Monthly smaller releases

Milestones

Sainte Cécile chantant les louanges de Dieu, Etienne Picart, Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, Public Domain

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Future developments •Improved CMS

•Improved exhibitions

•User annotations and collections

•Improved search (entity &

content based)

•Browse by entities (people,

subjects, places)

•More HQ content needed! Europeana Music Collections

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Mary Garden dans le rôle de Mélisande dans "Pelléas et Mélisande" de Claude Debussy / d'après un cliché Berger (1904), National Library of France, Public Domain

Get involved!•Share: provide (music related) data.

Direct links to media a must!•Curate: Blog posts, Exhibitions,

SoundCloud and other social media•Collaborate: Help manage and

curate the music collections•Contact for the Music Collections:

Richard Ranft, British Library (richard. ranft at bl.uk), http://www.europeanasounds.eu/

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09 November 2015

The Music Lesson, Louis Moritz,1808, Rijksmuseum , Public Domain

Joys and sorrows...•Joy: So much wonderful music! •Sorrow: But very much of it locked-in by copyright and we have no

fair use laws to compensate. And we lack video recordings almost entirely. We also have too little sheet music.

•Joy: Such variety of genres and resource types•Sorrow: But we have no massively multi-lingual vocabulary for them

•Joy: Sound recording quality is high•Sorrow: But many are in formats unsuitable for both the web and

preservation

•Joy: There are huge crowdsourced resources like the Petrucci Library•Sorrow: But we have no policy on if we can harvest them. GLAM-

sector wariness towards crowdsourced content an issue.

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