The Music Channel, Europeana Sounds, David Haskiya, Europeana Foundation

1. The Europeana Music
Collections
Discover 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

2. 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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4. Personas
Segmented by needs, behaviour and themes
of interest
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5. 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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6. 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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7. Europeana Music Collections
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8. Europeana Music Collections
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9. 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 thematic
collections
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10. Let’s do a live demo!
(What could go wrong?)
Link is http://music.europeana.eu
National Library of France, Public Domain
Agence de presse Mondial Photo-Presse,
Tournoi royal de motos à Londres :
changement d'une roue de side-car en
marche

11. 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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12. 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!
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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

13. 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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14. 09 November 2015
The Music Lesson, Louis Moritz,
1808, Rijksmuseum , Public Domain

15. 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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