Europeana Creative: Sound Archives and Social Networks

Lizzy Komen, Project Manager R&D, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

Tom Miles, Project Manager, British Library

Content

• Europeana Creative & role of the Pilots• The Social Networks Pilot: ‘Sound Connections’• Community engagement• Connection to Creative Industries

Image: Wikimedia/Public Domain

Europeana Creative & role of the Pilots

creative re-use of digitised content

supports cultural heritage

institutions to fulfil their mission

fosters innovative ways of using

cultural heritage

main strategic goal of Europeana

* Slide by Harry Verwayen at Europeana AGMDecember 2013

Europeana: Europe’s portal to cultural heritage

33m records from 2,300 European galleries, museums, archives, libraries

images, sounds, texts, video, 3D

31 languages

how?

• content for re-use• Europeana Labs & technical infrastructure• Europeana Content Re-use Framework• five Pilots• co-creation events• series of challenge events with the creative

industries• incubation of the most viable projects• evaluation cycle

The project

• February 2013 – July 2015 (30 months)

• CIP ICT PSP Best Practice Network• Call: CIP-ICT-PSP-2012-6

• Theme 2: digital content, open access and creativity

• 26 partners from 14 EU member states• Coordinated by the Austrian National Library

• 838 person-months effort • Budget: € 5,312,514• EU contribution: € 4,250,000

The Pilot workpackage

To produce scope, plan and implement 5 pilots applications, within 5 thematic areas: • Natural History Education• History Education• Tourism• Social Networks• Design

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Started May 2014

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Natural History Education - Serious Game

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Natural History Education - Memory Card Game

History Education

Tools for creation of online learning activities

Tourism

re-enact a painting@VanGoYourself

The Social Networks Pilot

‘Sound Connections’

Partners

● We Are What We Do● Ontotext● British Library● Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

Co-creation workshops

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British Library

3,000 tracks in all:

UK Sound Maps;

Wildlife and Environmental recordings

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Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

Sound archive from N

~2500 sounds

Field recordings, urban, environmental sounds

CC-BY-SA

Sound of the Netherlands

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Users can contribute new sounds

What ‘Sound Connections’ does

-Enrich sounds with Europeana materials and other websources-Invite communities to interact

Crowdsourcing opportunities

● Enhancement of existing data with more information (such as personal commentary, uploading of relevant content)

● Enhancement of data through linking up with other, related content (from other online GLAMs)

● Creation of a more interesting browser experience for the user.

Choosing Sounds for the pilot

Analysis of sounds in BL and NISV archive

Geo-reference

Licenced in an open way (CC-BY, Public Domain)

Direct link to sound

Potential for community engagement

1. Birds2. Aviation3. City soundscapes

Data Model Workgroup

Mapping between different data models: Historypin, British Library, Soundcloud, Europeana Data Model, The European Library

Enrichments of the sound collections

BL:• Global editing of data to meet EDM standards• Converting place names, Ordnance Survey and other

data to geo-referenced data• Making audio recordings downloadable either from

platforms such as Audioboo and SoundCloud

NISV:• Sounds enriched with SKOS (against GTAA, a common

thesaurus for audiovisual collections) → enable easy publication and use of vocabularies as Linked Data

• UGC sounds enriched with geographical coordinates

Engaging the Community

● 3 sub-themes: birds, aviation, city soundscapes (Amsterdam/London)

● Make use of existing communities● Make us of an existing community engagement

platform: Historypin (e.g. Europeana 1989)

Connection to Creative Industries

● Challenge for Social Networks and Tourism, September 2014

● New ideas to demonstrate re-use of CH objects● Spin-off projects

Thank you for listening!

Any questions?

With slides from:Max Kaiser, Austrian National LibraryHarry Verwayen, EF

@lizzykomen, lkomen@beeldengeluid.nl@tommilesz, tom.miles@bl.uk www.europeanacreative.euwww.geluidvannederland.nlhttp://sounds.bl.uk/sound-maps/ www.historypin.com