by Robert Kaye, MetaBrainz Foundation Inc.
BIB&PLAY - música a la biblioteca pública
Diputació de Barcelona, Xarxa de Biblioteques Municipals
Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament de Cultura
AMPLI Associació de musictecaris
19 de novembre de 2015, Barcelona
2. What is MetaBrainz?
The non-profit that runs the various *Brainz
projects. Founded in 2004 in California:
3. What is MusicBrainz?
MusicBrainz is like Wikipedia for music.
Open source. Open data. User curated.
Founded in 2000, we have 1M artists,
1.5M releases, 19M tracks, 100k labels,
1.4M users, hundreds of orgs use our data
4. MusicBrainz in the wild
Some of the companies that support us for using our data:
5. We may be able to help!
Ways in which MetaBrainz may be able to help libraries:
1. Provide metadata and context for music in libraries
(MusicBrainz)
2. Provide tools to build recommendations engines
custom tailored to expose library’s collections.
(ListenBrainz and AcousticBrainz)
3. Streaming listening rooms in conjunction with the
Internet Archive.
10. Why ListenBrainz?
Music recommendation systems are broken:
closed & controlled by the big guys
biased towards established artists
limited: we have almost no control
non-profits, like libraries, are left out
There are no usable open source
recommendation systems!
11. Why ListenBrainz?
To build a useful recommendation system you
need:
Music metadata
Acoustic data
Listening history