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

1. MusicBrainz
and library music collections
Robert Kaye
MetaBrainz Foundation Inc.
@MayhemBCN

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.

6. MusicBrainz can provide context for music:

7. MusicBrainz can provide insight into music:

8. What is ListenBrainz?
except it is open:
open source. open data.
ListenBrainz collects user
listening data like

9. Collecting listen histories
Robert Kaye, Pink Floyd, Great Gig in the Sky, 2015-04-20 16:20

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

12. Why ListenBrainz?
To build a useful recommendation system you
need:
Acoustic data
Listening history

13. Why ListenBrainz?
To build a useful recommendation system you
need:
Listening history

14. Why ListenBrainz?
To build a useful recommendation system you
need:

15. ListenBrainz and Libraries
How can libraries use our tools

16. Internet Archive
Partner organization in CAA.
Has large music collection.
TBC

17. Internet Archive
Virtual network of listening rooms.
Massive music collection.

18. Internet Archive
Perhaps obviate need for physical collections?
Create a large streaming music system for
all libraries?

19. Questions?
Ask now, or tweet to:
@ListenBrainz