Organizing and listening sound archives online using CREM’s database powered by TELEMETA by Véronique Ginouvès (MMSH- CNRS) & Joséphine Simonnot (CREM/LESC)

Véronique Ginouvès en collabora3on avec Joséphine Simonnot – Morelia 2017
Organizing and listening sound
archives online using
CREM’s database
powered by TELEMETA
h?p://archives.crem-cnrs.fr
Contact : hAps://phonotheque.hypotheses.org

Véronique Ginouvès in collabora3on with Joséphine Simonnot – Morelia, 2017
Who Am I?
• Véronique Ginouvès
• veronique.ginouves@univ-amu.fr
• - Ingineer at CNRS (French Na3onal Center for Scien3ﬁc
Research) in Aix-Marseille University, France
-  Head of the sound archives at the MMSH : Maison
Méditerranéennes des Sciences de l’Homme –
• - Director of a professional Master about sound and
audiovisual archives.
• Scholarly blog : hAp://phonotheque.hypotheses.org
• TwiAer : @bagolina
• Ar3cles in open access : HAL

The « MMSH »,
Maison
Méditerranéenne
des Sciences de
l’Homme is a
research center in
the ﬁeld of Social
Sciences and
Humani3es in Aix-en-
Provence, focused on
Mediterranean
studies.
This french research
laboratory is supported by
the na3onal centre for
scien3ﬁc research (CNRS),
working with several sound
archives, including the CREM
laboratory.

What is the CREM archive?
The audio archives of the CNRS
– Musée de l’Homme gather
commercial and unpublished
recordings of music and oral
tradi3ons from around the
world, from 1900 to the
present. Consis3ng of diverse
types of media (wax cylinders,
78rpm, vinyl records, magne3c
tapes, audio CDs, born digital
records).

CREM’s SOUND ARCHIVISTS
Joséphine Simonnot and Aude Da Cruz Lima

CREM’s DATABASE
Over 42,000 unpublished sound documents,
32.000 are available for listening, spread though
represen3ng about 4,000 hours of recordings of unpublished
ﬁeldworks.
Over 13,000 published materials,
4,600 are available for listening,
represen3ng about 3,700 hours (including more than 5,000
199 countries, and 1,200 ethnic and social groups are
represented, making it possible to hear a wide array of
musical and sung expressions, languages and dialects.
21,000 recordings are available for listening on free access.
The others are only available with an access code.

Our presenta[on:
1.  What is a sound archive
unpublished?
2.  What is Telemeta?
3.  How it is catalogued on
the CREM’s database?
4.  How to search and listen
to the sounds on the
CREM’s database?

What is a sound archive unpublished?

Objec[ve elements
-  A unique document: when it is not copied
for commercial purposes, it does not refer
to any standard or rules making ;
-  Recorded on analog or digital media
-  The main information that describe it
are provided by the individual(s) who have
recorded it: the packaging of the box when
there is one, the naming of the file
attachments.

UNESCO : about sound and
audiovisual archives

UNESCO : about sound and
audiovisual archives
•  There is no expression, universally recognizable,
to describe the concept of audiovisual archives,
like the words "library" or "museum ». It is a
major handicap…
•  Audiovisual archives are organiza3ons or
departments within organiza3ons that are
dedicated to the collec3on, management,
conserva3on and communica3on of a collec3on
of audiovisual materials and audiovisual heritage.

Université de l
Cataloging to make accessible

Telemeta: a so]ware to catalogue and
publish sound and audiovisual archives

What is Telemeta?
Telemeta is an open-source sonware plaoorm designed by the
Parisson Company which facilitates the management and
indexing of sound ﬁles in the audio database.
The a free digital assets management system (DAMS) Telemeta
manages tasks and decisions surrounding the inges3on,
annota3on, cataloguing, storage, retrieval and distribu3on of
digital assets (mainly sound and audiovisual ﬁles)

Telemeta can be downloaded online, embracing a philosophy of
knowledge sharing. Sounds are available for listening in a
compressed format delivered from a streaming server.
hAp://telemeta.org & hAps://github.com/Parisson/TimeSide

Telemeta is focused on sound
With Telemeta, sound can be visualised with a
dynamic audio player using TimeSide*, an open web
audio processing framework.
hAps://pypi.python.org/pypi/TimeSide

Various graphical representa3ons can be chosen, such
as the waveform or the spectral view. These are useful
for spoqng speech or music sec3ons and for
naviga3ng within a recording.

*TimeSide is a python framework enabling low and high level audio analysis, imaging,
transcoding, streaming and labelling. Its high-level API is designed to enable complex
processing on very large datasets of any audio or video assets with a plug-in
architecture, a secure scalable backend and an extensible dynamic web frontend.

Item window, sound and metadata on
Telemeta-CREM: Palo Ritual, Mexico, 1954
hAp://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/archives/items/CNRSMH_I_1972_006_001_06

Listening to the sound archives
reading the metadata
Record Bachajon, Mexico, 1973

What kind of content are catalogued?
The database is organized on a hierarchical levels of
descrip3on:
1. Archives Series named in reference to the collector or
the depositor of the audio archive (fonds).
2. Corpus/Collec[ons: collec3on is the main level of
descrip3on understood as an accumula3on of materials
devoted to a single theme, person, event, or type of
document acquired from a variety of sources). >> a
relevant ensemble of sound items corresponding to
recordings collected within one research ﬁeldwork or to a
published record.
3. Item: the minimal unit, the individual sound ﬁle with its
own set of informa3on.

Example: 26 unpublished mexican
collec[ons on Telemeta
hAp://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/search/quick/collec3on/?
q=mexique&selected_facets=item_status_exact:Unpublished

Items
The Item is the
minimal unit, the
individual sound ﬁle
with its own set of
informa3on,
gathered in a
Collec>on.
It is possible to add 3me-embedded markers
and associated comments to the audio
recordings.

Example: 420 mexican items

Listening to an item: Carnival Balanchon
h?p://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/archives/items/CNRSMH_I_2014_014_010_03

Waveform spectral


spectrogram


Waveform simple

Find a sound archive
with the Geographic navigator

2 status user / 2 kind of access
- Visitors (users without a login) have access to all
the metadata of the catalogue. In addi3on, they
can listen to all free-access recordings: records
published by the Musée de l’Homme and all
recordings that the collector and musicians agree to
disseminate online.
- The researcher proﬁle (with a login) can access all
audio archives and has the ability to edit metadata
and annotate the audio ﬁles, in keeping with the
collabora3ve nature of the database.

Found CREM’s Database
on Europeana
hAp://www.europeana.eu/portal/fr/record/2059208/archives_items_979_.html?q=cnrs-crem

TELEMETA IN ARABIC
h?p://phonotheque.cmam.tn

Credits
Except excep3on, the photographs are from
CREM.
-  Slide 3: MMSH, by Pierre Monteil, CC-BY.
-  Slide 5: A visit to the Bri3sh Libray, 2014, by
Véronique Ginouvès, CC-BY.
-  Slide 8: André Didier, ethnologist mission
« Ogooué Congo », 1946
hAp://www.europeana.eu/portal/fr/record/2059208/
hAps___medihal_archives_ouvertes_fr_medihal_01515034.html

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