This document summarizes the Europeana Sounds project, which aims to aggregate audio and related collections across Europe. It provides details on: 1) The Europeana platform which aggregates over 53 million digitized items from 3,500 organizations across Europe. 2) The Europeana Sounds project specifically, which has brought together 24 organizations from 12 countries to contribute over 282,000 audio records so far. 3) Events held to promote participation in the project, including "re-discovery" events in various countries and edit-a-thons to improve metadata.

1. IAML Congress – Rome 3-8 July 2016
Treasuring the sound heritage:
the Europeana Sounds project
Marzia Piccininno - Elisa Sciotti
Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico
delle Biblioteche Italiane

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Introduction

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6. CC BY-SA
Europeana aggregates metadata:
• From all EU countries +
Norway, Iceland Russia,
Ukraine, Serbia, Switzerland,
Turkey, USA, Vatican State,
Israel, FYROM
• 3,500 galleries, libraries,
archives and museums
• More than 53M objects
• Metadata in 36 languages
Europeana aggregation infrastructure
Europeana|CC BY-SA
The Platform for Europe’s Digital Cultural Heritage

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10. The provider website
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The project

12. Which documents?
Sounds, images, photographs, sheet music

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24 organisations from 12 countries
7 National Libraries
5 Archive & Research Centres
2 other Public Bodies
4 Non-profit Organisations
3 Universities
3 Companies

15. Some outcomes
• 282,111 records in Europeana out of 550,000
• EDM profile specific for music
• Rights Labelling Guidelines
• Semantic annotation tool to tag records
(MIMO multilingual vocabulary)
• Tune-ID-o-Matic (ongoing)
• The Europeana music channel

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19. The future
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20. The Music Lesson, Louis Moritz,
1808, Rijksmuseum, Public
Domain

21. The Italian contribution
ICCU is a partner of Europeana Sounds Project
and through the Internet Culturale Portal
aggregates the sound contents owned and
digitized by the Central Institute for Sound
and Audiovisual Heritage.
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23. Which sounds from Italy?
More than 83.000 digital sounds recordings
including Discs 78 RPM, Cylinders,
Compact Discs
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Rights reserved – free access
Rights reserved – free access
Public Domain

24. Which sounds from Italy?
Music of different genre, historical, theatrical and literal recordings
from the end of nineteenth to the twentieth century
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25. Records from ICBSA
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Caruso Gramatica
Marconi Pirandello
Il Pianto delle zitelle: sacra
rappresentazione popolare

26. (Re)discovery event
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•Bibliothèque National de France
•British Library
•ICCU
•Netherlands Institute for Sound
and Vision
•Austrian National Library
First event: Vienna @The Austrian
National Library “Beethoven meets Liszt”

27. Edit-a-thon in Europe
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28. Edit-a-thon in Italy
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ICCU, November 2016
Giovanni Boldini, Ritratto di Giuseppe Verdi, 1886 - Wikimedia

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Join us on a journey
to make sound collections
available for everyone!

30. Europeana Sounds project website
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31. Social pages
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Follow us…
europeanasounds.eu
@EU_Sounds
/SoundsEuropeana

34. Second international conference
Vilnius, 4 November 2016
europeanasounds.eu/europeana-sounds-conference-2016
#EUsounds16
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35. French (Re)discovery event
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36. Italian (Re)discovery event
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37. Join the Europeana Sounds network
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Meeting du printemps [athlétisme] à Colombes, départ de la course des 20 kilomètres,
photographie, Agence Rol, National Library of France, public domain
•Audio or audio related collections
•A digitised and online accessible collection
•A desire to share these collections on Europeana

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https://vimeo.com/116134696

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Stay tuned...
Thanks for listening