The Open Collections Network is a new open collaboration. We extend our Digital Music Observatory and the Cultural & Creative Sectors Industries Observatory open data collaborations with open culture and open science, and the management of open data to open knowledge management.

🎵 💿 Open Music Collections
📷 🎞 Open Photography Collections
📜 📚 Open Print Collections
📽📀 Open Video Collections

Use cases: Open Foto Ateliers, Linking Small Prints.

Take our invitation and get involved in our Data Observatory Labs project preparations.

Collections

*
All Music Photography Film Books & Publications Use case
Music
Our Open Music Collections store various formats of music works and their sound recordings—‘born digital’ items like midi files and digital sound recordings and ‘digital surrogates’ (digitised sheet music or digitised analogue media—, catalogue them to a high standard, and connect them to locations, buildings, people and other things via linked open data (semantic web) techniques.
Mar 18, 2023
Slides
Music
Open Foto Ateliers
Our use case is a collection that connects early private photographs of known and unknown subjects, the person of the photographer, the atelier (and company) of the photographer, the building, the internal or external view of the historic photographic creation location, connected to the digitised advertisement, placed on Open Street Maps or Google Maps.
Mar 18, 2023
Slides Cultural & Creative Sectors Industries Observatory Open Print Collections Open Photography Collections
Open Foto Ateliers
Open Video Collections
Japanese Breakfast Live - 2022-03-16 3TEN Austin City Limits Live, Austin, Texas [archive.org video] Our Open Video Collections store digital videos—born digital items and digital surrogates of analogue footage, catalogue them to a high standard, and connect them to locations, buildings, people and other things via linked open data (semantic web) techniques.
Mar 18, 2023
Slides Cultural & Creative Sectors Industries Observatory Case study
Open Video Collections
Photography
Our Open Photography Collections store digital photographs—born digital items and digital surrogates of analogue prints, slides or negatives—, catalogue them to a high standard, and connect them to locations, buildings, people and other things via linked open data (semantic web) techniques.
Mar 18, 2023
Slides Cultural & Creative Sectors Industries Observatory Listen Local Photography Collection Case study: Open Foto Ateliers Case study: Linked Small Prints
Photography
Prints
Our Open Print Collections store digital files—born digital flyers, documents, publications (not published as a book or journal article), and digital surrogates of analogue prints, graphic posters, engravings and lithographs, ex librises and graphics for special occasions, loose-leaf albums, picture postcards, text posters and leaflets, obituaries; catalogue them to a high standard, and connect them to locations, buildings, people and other things via linked open data (semantic web) techniques.
Last updated on Mar 19, 2023
Cultural & Creative Sectors Industries Observatory Case study: Prints
Prints
Listen Local Photography Collection
The Listen Local Photography Collection is a part of our Open Photography Collection. It is mainly, however, a supporting collection of our Open Music Collection, particularly that of the Listen Local Music programme.
Mar 10, 2023
Slides Digital Music Observatory Listen Local Photography Project Listen Local Lithuania
Listen Local Photography Collection

Media

*
All Photo Sound recordings Video Books
Digital Images
We help to store, catalogue, and connect digital images to people, locations, places, original analogue prints or photo negatives. The images private or art photography, documentation, printed works, sketches, drawings.
Mar 18, 2023
Digital Images
Sound Recordings
We help to store, catalogue, and connect sound recordings to people, locations, places, music works, and literary works. The sound recording may contain music, audiobooks, podcasts or radio programs, or simple documentation of speeches.
Mar 18, 2023
Connect
Sound Recordings
Digital text
We help to store, catalogue, and connect digital texts to people, locations, places, books, music works, and films. The text may contain entire literary texts, essays, articles, blogposts.
Mar 18, 2023
Follow
Digital text
Film & Video
We help to store, catalogue, and connect digitized audiovisual content and moving images to people, locations, places, books, music works, and films.
Mar 18, 2023
Follow Connect
Film & Video

Accomplish­ments

Horizon Europe Research & Innovation Action
Horizon Europe Jan 2023
Open Music Europe
MusicAIRE
Four observatory partners win MusicAIRE grants
MusicAIRE Jul 2022 – Feb 2023
Four partners using open knowledge and data harmonization of the observatory win competitive grants
AI+Blockchain Product/Market Fit
Yes!Delft Oct 2020
Product-market fit validation in the globally 2nd ranked university-backed incubator to turn CEEMID into a music observatory.
Central European Music Industry Report
Creative Flip Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Presenting the first, multi-country, reproducible music market report in Europe

Recent Posts

Linking Open Small Prints
Hatschek & Farkas photo-, amateur cinema-, optician specialist store, photography and cinema lab. 83th price list (May 1939). Original name, districting and spelling of address: Budapest, IV, Károly király út 28, Gerlóczy ucca sarok.
Last updated on Mar 20, 2023 6 min read
Cultural & Creative Sectors Industries Observatory Open Print Collections Open Photography Collections Reprex
Linking Open Small Prints
Invitation to the Open Collections Network
We would like to extend our invitation to open collaboration, ongoing for years in music and film in the open data area, to open culture and open knowledge collaborations. We want to unleash the power of open data, open science, open knowledge and open culture to link and strengthen small local ecosystems.
Last updated on Mar 9, 2023 5 min read
Cultural & Creative Sectors Industries Observatory Open Print Collections Open Music Collections Open Photography Collections Open Video Collections Case study: Prints Case study: Photography
Invitation to the Open Collections Network

Projects

*
All Digital Observatory Labs Listen Local Photography Collection
Listen Local Photography
Create a clearly licensed photography collection for the Listen Local projects. Every opt-in artists, more and more write-in artists should have at least one Free Culture Works licensed photograph. We collect portraits, staged band photographs, and photographs of live performances.
Digital Music Observatory Cult Creative Sect Industries Obs Listen Local Photography Collection Listen Local Lithuania
Listen Local Photography
Data Observatory Labs
We bring data-, sustainability-, rights management innovation, and novel distribution models nearer to the grassroots level of creation.
Slides @reprex@mastodon.nl Digital Music Observatory Cult Creative Sect Industries Obs Reprex 🇪🇺 CREA-CROSS-2023-INNOVLAB
Data Observatory Labs

Contributors of the Open Collection Network

Join our open collaboration team as a data curator, developer or business developer! More about contributing: Automated Observatory Contributors’ Handbook.

developers

Avatar

Daniel Antal

Developer of open-source statistical software

institutional partners

Avatar

Reprex

Reprex is managing the Digital Music Observatory open knowlege platform prototype, develops its software and creates high-quality datasets.

join us

Avatar

New Curators

Future curator

Avatar

New Developers

Future co-developer

Partners of the Green Deal Data Observatory

Join our open collaboration team as a data curator, developer or business developer! More about contributing: Automated Observatory Contributors’ Handbook.

developers

Avatar

Daniel Antal

Developer of open-source statistical software

institutional partners

Avatar

Reprex

Reprex is managing the Digital Music Observatory open knowlege platform prototype, develops its software and creates high-quality datasets.

join us

Avatar

New Curators

Future curator

Avatar

New Developers

Future co-developer

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Featured Publications

February, 2021 In JIPITEC
Ensuring the Visibility and Accessibility of European Creative Content on the World Market: The Need for Copyright Data Improvement in the Light of New Technologies
Ensuring the Visibility and Accessibility of European Creative Content on the World Market: The Need for Copyright Data Improvement in the Light of New Technologies

While the US have already taken steps to provide an integrated data space for music as of 1 January 2021, the EU is facing major obstacles not only in the field of music but also in other creative industry sectors. Weighing costs and benefits, there can be little doubt that new data improvement initiatives and sufficient investment in a better copyright data infrastructure should play a central role in EU copyright policy. A trade-off between data harmonisation and interoperability on the one hand, and transparency and accountability of content recommender systems on the other, could pave the way for successful new initiatives.
Preprint PDF Cite

Recent Publications

Quickly discover relevant content by filtering publications.
Martin Senfleben, Thomas Margoni, Daniel Antal, Balazs Bodó, Stef van Gompel, Christian Handke, Martin Kretschmer, Joost Poort, João Quintais, Sebastian Felix Schwemer (2021). Ensuring the Visibility and Accessibility of European Creative Content on the World Market: The Need for Copyright Data Improvement in the Light of New Technologies. In JIPITEC.

Preprint PDF Cite

Popular Topics

1930s archive.og Atelier Audiovisual Book Budapest Data Observatory Labs Digital Images Economic impact analysis Environmental impact analysis Europeana FAIR Film Images innovation Listen Local Music Open Collections Network Photography Video

Contact