The document discusses the Europeana Sounds project, a three-year European Commission funded project running from 2014-2017 with a budget of €6.14 million. The project aimed to make more European audio content available online by improving access and the user experience. It aggregated audio content from over 20 European organizations and developed new technical infrastructure and processes to enrich metadata and provide playable, shareable audio through various thematic channels on Europeana's portal.

1. … in a nutshell
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5. Which documents?
Sounds, images, photographs, sheet music, etc.
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6. Making more audio content available
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7. Improving the access and user experience
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8. How?
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11. Working on
domain
constraints
Credit: Horia Varlan, flickr.com/photos/horiavarlan/4839454263/
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12. Promoting the
creative reuse of
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recordings
Credit: "Revolver," 2009, by Paul Villinski
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13. Building a network
of stakeholders
Credit: jalroagua, flickr.com/photos/31065898@N08/8220970905/
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14. Before: 2014
database
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16. After: 2017
channels
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17. Branded channel
with its own blurb
Thematic metadata
games available!?
Vocabulary &
Authority based
browse
Channel specific
social feeds
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18. Vocabulary
based facets
Authority
enriched results
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19. Playable,
taggable,
shareable,
embeddable
audio
User created
playlists
Semantically
similar objects
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20. Content can be in
multiple channels
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21. The project
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22. • 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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23. 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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24. Management Structure
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25. Workplan architecture
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26. Best Practice Network
Technical infrastructure
Existing
audio
metadata
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Publishers
and ©
owners
Europeana
Sounds
channel
Europeana
audiences
Licensing
policy
Content
providers Marketing
Europeana portal
Enrichment
processes
Aggregation
system
New
metadata
3rd parties
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27. Credit: British Library/Elizabeth Hunter
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29. Join us on a journey
to make sound collections
available for everyone!
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36. Follow us…
europeanasounds.eu
@EU_Sounds
/SoundsEuropeana
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37. Thanks for listening
Stay tuned...
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