Europeana Sounds:

improving access to Europe’s

digital audio archives

Bruno Sagna | Liber 2016, Göttingen

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BnF Metadata in the French context

Bibliographic metadata

Qualified Dublin Core

Digital metadata

Simple Dublin Core

2 OAI-PMH Repositories

Catalogue repository

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The Europeana Sounds

project

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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

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• Three-year EC funded project

February 2014 to January 2017

• Budget: 6,14 million €

80% from the European Commission

• Europeana’s fifth aggregation domain

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Building a network of stakeholders

Credit: jalroagua, flickr.com/photos/31065898@N08/8220970905/

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Improving the access and user experience

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Promoting the creative reuse of

recordings

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Benefits for

organisation

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Stay tuned ...

Thanks for listening

europeanasounds.eu@EU_Sounds/SoundsEuropeana