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co-funded by the European Commission
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What happens to that live concert you just heard
on the radio?
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Or to those unique ethnological recordings made
during long arduous expeditions?
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Their final destination is a shelf in one of many
professional music archives.
Music archives are home to priceless music audio,
including 78s and other rare and historical
recordings. Archives are held by broadcasters,
museums, institutions or private collectors.
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Music archives collect the cultural heritage of a
people or nation. Archive collections often also
contain videos, books, documents, manuscripts and
musical instruments. All are part of Europes
cultural audio-treasure chest.
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Information about the music and the recordings is
collected and stored as metadata in a database
catalogue.
These catalogues are the access point to the
musical treasure chest.
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Each archive is an island with its own
character.
Archives have their own individual
languages. Their digital catalogues have been
created in different formats. Their data is based
on different technologies. Users can search the
catalogues only one by one. They have to pay a
separate visit to each archive.


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Global perspectives are converging in science,
education and entertainment.
Archives need special support to enable them to
deliver their input to the culture of an emerging
Europe. DISMARC, a two-year EU-funded project
initiated in September 2006, addresses the
problem.
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Participating archives and collections will
contribute their catalogue data.

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Participating archives and collections will
contribute their catalogue data.
This data will be transformed into a
universally-readable format.

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The result? All these different catalogues will
be simultaneously searchable
for the first time!

Online searches can be made by anybody, from
anywhere. This service will be available in more
than 20 languages.
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The DISMARC portal is the key to this access, and
will be ready for public use by the end of the
project in 2008.

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The ten partners in DISMARC are

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RUNDFUNK BERLIN-BRANDENBURG
GERMANY
RBB is the regional public broadcaster in Berlin
and Brandenburg, operating one regional
television channel, seven radio stations and a
wide range of online and videotext services. RBB
also contributes to national channels, runs the
ARD Warsaw studio and manages the ARD
Play-Out-Centre with 17 television and 22 radio
channels. Digital audio content 300,000 items
/ 5,200 hours Analogue audio content 233,000
items / 1,200 hours Consortium leader, content
provider, Work Package leader for Management
and Dissemination WPs
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ETHNOMUSICOLOGY, MEDIA-TECHNOLOGY AND BERLIN
PHONOGRAMME ARCHIVE
GERMANY
EMEM is part of Staatliche Museen Berlins
Ethnological Museum. Collects, preserves and
researches music worldwide and communicates
knowledge via exhibitions and publications. Their
wax cylinder collection has been included in
UNESCO's Memory of the World Register since 1999.
Digital audio content 357 collections / 738
hours Analogue audio content 717 collections /
8,500 hours Content provider, Work Package
leader for Data WP
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ANGEWANDTE INFORMATIONSTECHNIK FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCH
AFT
AUSTRIA
AIT is a software / research / information
management company specialising in information
engineering and development of information
systems. Provides know-how and technical
infrastructure for a variety of EU-funded
projects. Technology provider, Work Package
leader Technical WP
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GRIEG MUSIC EDUCATION
NORWAY
GME develops and distributes internet-based
education systems and educational content.
Customers are primary and secondary schools,
colleges and universities. Dissemination, pilot
projects
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WOMEX
GERMANY
WOMEX is the premier network exclusively
dedicated to world, roots, folk, ethnic,
traditional, local and diaspora music of all
kinds. Their annual tradeshow/ conference/
festival connects music business, culture and
science. Dissemination, Work Package leader
Pilot Projects WP
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HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK UND THEATER HANNOVER
GERMANY
HMTH is a leading German artistic / educational /
research university. Among the 20 subjects
offered are ethnomusicology and music pedagogy.
Affiliated institutes include the European Centre
for Jewish Music, the World Music Study Centre,
Institute for Journalistic and Communication
Research. Digital audio content 7000 CDs /
4,000 hours Analogue audio content 44.000
recordings / 38,000 hours Content provider
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YLEISRADIO
FINLAND
YLE is Finland's national public service
broadcasting company, with five national
television channels, seven radio channels and
twenty-five regional radio programmes. Digital
audio content 24,000 items / 70,000
hours Analogue audio content 710,000 recordings
/ 250,000 hours Content provider
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SVENSKT VISARKIV
SWEDEN
SVA is part of the Swedish National Collections
of Music. An important part of SVAs activities
is research and editorial work, aimed at making
archived material accessible to scholars and to
the general public. Digital audio content
3,800 items / 4,400 hours Analogue audio
content 45,500 items / 34,600 hours. Content
provider, technical support
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INSTITUTE OF ART OF THE POLISH ACADEMY OF
SCIENCES
POLAND
ISPAN is a research institution which
concentrates on interdisciplinary studies of
Polish art and artistic culture, architecture,
music, film, theatre and fine arts. Digital
audio content 621 hours Analogue audio content
4,950 hours Content provider
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SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND ASIAN STUDIES UNIVERSITY
OF LONDON
UK
SOAS is the only higher education institution in
the UK specialising in the study of Asia and
Africa. Part of the University of London. SOAS
recently began operating the in-house radio
station OpenAir Radio. Digital audio
content1,950 items / 5,500 hours Analogue audio
content1,600 items Content provider
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Technical overview
DISMARC partner databases provide data describing
their music and music-related content, known as
metadata.

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The metadata is harvested with a virtual digital
vacuum cleaner and is stored in the metastore.
This metadata is converted to a searchable
DISMARC format.
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Other repositories also provide metadata from
their catalogues...
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Users search the metastore
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To dig deeper (to listen, license, research,
compare), the user can follow a direct link to
the DISMARC partner archives.
The search results give immediate access to all
catalogue information.

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To dig deeper (to listen, license, research,
compare), the user can follow a direct link to
the DISMARC partner archives.

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DISMARC opens a window to the archives
by

• making archive holdings globally searchable for
  all, 24 hours/day,
• enabling multi-lingual online access to all
  catalogue data via the DISMARC portal,

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and also by

• enabling archives to communicate their holdings
  and content widely, quickly and cheaply, to each
  other as well as to the general public.
• offering a selection of downloadable music via
  the DISMARC portal.

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To establish DISMARC, the partners
will

• create a (free) interactive DVD Guide to the
  DISMARC collection,
• support professional exploitation and performance
  of music with an easy to handle online licensing
  tool,
• make radio broadcasts with as-yet unexposed
  recordings,
• create a series of themed music projects,
  available as download or CD.

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Music education will benefit from DISMARC

• The DISMARC portal will be adapted as an
  educational tool and incorporated in the
  Portfolio Music software.

• Series of academic seminars will focus on changes
  to the academic environment as a result of
  DISMARC.

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Audio archives gain more relevance

• The preservation and reuse of cultural heritage
  audio is supported and encouraged by public use
  of DISMARC.
• Europes research communities will benefit from a
  complete overview of each others holdings.

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DISMARC is not an island in itself

• The software is affordable and sustainable - it
  uses distributed server technology and
  easy-to-obtain Open Source software.
• The technology complies with the Open Archives
  Initiative, which increases ease of access.

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DISMARC is not an island in itself

• DISMARC will foster partnerships and strengthen
  scientific cooperation.
• Digital catalogues which are available for
  download and content aggregation will benefit
  from the existence of the DISMARC standard.
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The DISMARC results will be integrated into The
European Library (TEL) and the European Digital
Library (EDL) as part of the i2010 Initiative.
The European Library and the i2010 Digital
Libraries Initiative

TEL provides a single gateway to the collections
of Europes national libraries, and EDL will
build upon the TEL infrastructure.
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DISMARC will be fully compatible with TEL/EDL
and will be integrated into future developments
as the TEL/EDL audio pillar.

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Greetings from the DISMARC team
The kick-off meeting was held on Sept 28/29 2006
at the Deutsches Musikarchiv in Berlin, Germany
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co-funded by the European Commission
www.dismarc.org