Europeana Sounds Task Force inaugural meeting
IASA 2016 Annual conference
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian - 4th floor Conference Center, Sunday, September 25, 2016, 9:30-10:30
Minutes
Chair: Richard Ranft (British Library)
Minutes: Zane Grosa (National Library of Latvia)
Agenda:
1.Welcome, introductions
2. The Europeana Sounds project
Objectives
Achievements
Presentation and tutorial at IASA 2016
3. Europeana Sounds Task Force
Aims
Actions
Get involved
Attendees:
Catherine Ferris, Dublin Institute of Technology
Samuel Mund, Center for World Music, Hildesheim University
Peter Laurence, Archive of World Music, Harvard University
Ama Filipa Magalhães, CESEN-FCSH, Portugal
Judith Opoku-Boateng, University of Ghana
Xavier Loyant, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Filip Šir, Moravian Library, Czech Republic
Marc Struemper, Austrian National Library
Jennifer Vaughn, Syracuse University, Belfer Archive, USA
Ingela Utterstrom, National Library of Sweden
Johan Oomen, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Petar Pečur, Croatia Records, Croatia
Suresh Chandvankar, Society of Indian Record Collectors
Romain Choron, Service Historique de la Defense, France
1. RR gave an introduction about the Europeana Sounds project, its aims and achievements in transforming access to Europe’s sound heritage, demonstrating the Europeana Sounds website and Europeana portal. Everyone present was encouraged to join the Task Force, and to attend next day’s conference presentation (Richard Ranft, Zane Grosa) and the Wednesday tutorial about metadata mapping with Juozas Markauskas.
2. Europeana Sounds Task force – possible activities
· Curation of Europeana Music Collection (http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/collections/music) – there will be a need to identify new curators starting February 2017. Z Grosa shared her experience of curating the Collection. JO explained that data on Europeana is also accessible through an API, and metadata is offered through a CC0 license so it can be accessible to researchers through many other interfaces. Europeana is funded through to 2020 so perhaps possible also to have some funding to sustain Europeana Sounds. Those attending expressed interest in curating the Collections. Action: British Library (BL) / Europeana to seek Music Collections curators.
· Continuation of user engagement activities, crowdsourcing, edit-a-thons.
· Sharing of technical practices such as conversions of music manuscripts to midi, speech transcriptions – to follow up at the next IASA conference?
· Training – possible future training at IASA conferences on aggregating metadata into Europeana, including the September 2017 conference in Germany. Action: RR to add to IASA 2017 conference planning.
· Outreach and marketing, e.g. add Europeana Music to university musicology departments’ web pages about online resources; promoting Europeana Music on social media
· Bringing in new data providers; - these can be outside Europe as well. Action: all to encourage new institutional collections to provide metadata.
3. Discussion, questions, actions.
· FS asked if he can translate the Europeana Sounds advertising materials into Czech language. Yes – FS to contact BnF via the Europeana Sounds website.
· RR asked if people present would be willing to take on curation of Music Channel for a month next year, you don't have to be a data provider to do that. Action: contact those present by email to follow up.
· Would be good to get feedback about the tutorial on Wednesday, what would be useful training? Action: contact those present by email to follow up
· JO suggests teaming up with DPLA with focus on the sounds. Action: BL
· JO – Europeana can provide Cloud services for hosting audio content.
· Provide clear points why IASA members should provide their metadata to Europeana Sounds. Action: BL