Lizzy Komen from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision presented the "Sound Connections" social networks pilot. The pilot allows communities to explore and enrich sound collections from several cultural institutions through a social networking platform. Partners in the pilot include the British Library, Historypin, Ontotext, and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. The pilot connects thousands of audio tracks from each institution. Users can tag and comment on sounds, and cultural institutions receive notifications about user contributions. Historypin has extended the platform by allowing other institutions to host collections and by increasing scale through projects on the First World War Centenary Hub.

1. Social Networks Pilot
“Sound Connections”
Lizzy Komen, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Europeana Creative Culture Jam, 9 July 2015, Vienna
@lizzykomen
lkomen@beeldengeluid.nl

2. Click to add text
Netherlands Institute for Sound and
Vision

3. Bringing sounds to live
–Engage
–Enrich
–Share

4. Co-creation workshop impression video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=38&v=IOTp8MlAtqA
Co-creation workshop

5. Partners
● Historypin (Shift/formerly We Are What We Do)
● Ontotext
● British Library
● Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

6. Early sketches: Social Networks Pilot
9-7-2015The Sound of Europe

7. British Library
3,000 tracks
UK Sound Maps;
Wildlife and
Environmental
recordings
AudioBoo
CC-BY-NC

8. Sound of the
Netherlands
~2500 sounds
Field recordings,
urban,
environmental
sounds
CC-BY-SA
SoundCloud
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

9. #GvNL
Soundhunter app

10. Sound Connections
A social networking platform inviting communities to
explore and enrich sound collections

11. https://www.historypin.org/en/explore/sound-connections/

17. Wikipedia

18. Europeana

20. Tagging
People can also add tags items, content owner receives a notification

21. In the Social Network pilot, Historypin represents a member of the creative
industry leveraging Europeana content. Historypin has seen interest from
other cultural institutions and has been able to extend the platform in two
ways:
• Software as Service – allowing cultural institutions to use Historypin as a
collecting and enrichment platform, with added service such as custom
design
• Increasing scale – using the infrastructure to host 100s of First Wold War
community projects on the Centenary Hub
(www.historypin.org/firstworldwar )
Business Model

23. Europeana API ingest code on Github
https://github.com/Historypin/europeana-api-ingest

24. Community
Engagement

27. Amsterdam Museum

28. Nightingale & Canary by Andy Thomas
Sounds used:
https://soundcloud.com/lucdebruijn/nachtegaal-in-de-duinen
https://soundcloud.com/beeldengeluid/zingen-van-een-kanarie

29. Thank you for listening!
@lizzykomen, lkomen@beeldengeluid.nl
www.europeanacreative.eu
www.geluidvannederland.nl
http://sounds.bl.uk/sound-maps/
www.historypin.org
https://www.historypin.org/en/explore/sound-connections
http://vimeo.com/103364847
http://www.andythomas.com.au/