The Europeana Sounds project increased the opportunities for access to and creative re-use of Europeana's audio and audio-related content. The project built a sustainable best practice network of stakeholders in the content value chain to aggregate, enrich and share a critical mass of audio that meets the needs of public audiences, the creative industries, and researchers.

The consortium of 24 partners from 12 countries doubled the number of audio items accessible through Europeana to over 1 million, and improved geographical and thematic coverage by aggregating items with widespread popular appeal such as contemporary and classical music, traditional and folk music. Meaningful contextual knowledge was added to 2 million items in Europeana's audio and audio related collections, and techniques for cross-media and cross-collection linking were developed. The project developed and validated audience-specific sound channels and a distributed crowdsourcing infrastructure for end-users to improve Europeana's search facility, navigation and user experience. Finally, music publishers and rights-holders were engaged in efforts to make more material accessible online through Europeana by resolving domain constraints and lack of access to commercially unviable (i.e. out-of-commerce) content.

Facts:

• Projektbeginn: February 2014
• Projektdauer: 36 Monate
• Budget: ca. 5 Mio. EUR

Förderung: EC ICT PSP