The  Social  Networks  Pilot:  Crea4ve  Re-­‐Use  of  Dutch  and  

Bri4sh  Sound  Archives      

 Lizzy  Komen,  Project  Manager  R&D,  Netherlands  Ins4tute  for  Sound  and  Vision    

IASA  Conference,  Cape  Town,  9  October  2014  

Content •  Europeana Creative & role of the pilots •  The Social Networks Pilot: ‘Sound Connections’ •  Community engagement aspects •  Inspirational video using bird sounds

Europeana Creative & role of the Pilots

creative re-use of digitised content

Europeana: Europe’s portal to cultural heritage

32m records from 2,300 European galleries, museums, archives, libraries

images, sounds, texts, video, 3D

31 languages

Metadata under CC0

how?

•  content for re-use •  Europeana Labs & technical infrastructure •  Europeana Content Re-use Framework •  five Pilots •  co-creation events •  series of challenge events with the creative

industries •  incubation of the most viable projects •  evaluation cycle

Thematic Pilots

 

Natural History Education - Serious Game

 

Natural History Education - Memory Card Game

History Education

Tools for creation of online learning activities

Tourism

re-enact a painting @VanGoYourself

labs.europeana.eu

www.europeanacreative.eu

The Social Networks Pilot Sound Connections

Partners

●  We  Are  What  We  Do  ●  Ontotext  ●  Bri4sh  Library  ●  Netherlands  Ins4tute  for  Sound  and  Vision    

Co-creation workshops

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British Library

3,000  tracks  in  all:    UK  Sound  Maps;    Wildlife  and  Environmental  recordings  

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Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

Sound archive from NISV ~2500 sounds Field recordings, urban, environmental sounds CC-BY-SA

Sound of the Netherlands

Users can contribute new sounds

What ‘Sound Connections’ does

-­‐Enrich sounds with Europeana materials and other websources -Invite communities to interact -http://www.historypin.com/en/explore/birdlife/

Crowdsourcing  opportuni0es  

●  Enhancement of existing data with more information (such as personal commentary, uploading of relevant content)

●  Enhancement of data through linking up with other, related content (from other online GLAMs)

●  Creation of a more interesting browser experience for the user.

 

Choosing Sounds for the pilot

Analysis  of  sounds  in  BL  and  NISV  archive    Geo-­‐reference    Licenced  in  an  open  way  (CC-­‐BY-­‐SA,  Public  Domain)    Direct  link  to  sound    Poten4al  for  community  engagement    

1. Birds 2. Aviation 3. City soundscapes

Engaging the Community

●  3 sub-themes: birds, aviation, city soundscapes (Amsterdam/London)

●  Make use of existing communities ●  Make us of an existing community engagement

platform: Historypin (e.g. Europeana 1989)  

Collaborations

Amsterdam Museum

Lessons Learned ●  Communities are interested in sharing their knowledge ●  Target your message when using social media ●  Need to explain the nature of the project (i.e. pilot which

will be improved with feedback over time) ●  Some communities wished to see more sounds for

enrichments, before sharing with others ●  Provide users with examples of enriched sounds to get

things started ●  Be prepared to be surprised by who is interested and

explore this area further (e.g. archeology community) ●  Users wanted to see other types as well, such as

audiovisual ●  Explore ways to better 'visualise' sounds, or different

entry points rather than browse by map

Sounds used: https://soundcloud.com/lucdebruijn/nachtegaal-in-de-duinen

https://soundcloud.com/beeldengeluid/zingen-van-een-kanarie

Nightingale & Canary by Andy Thomas

Thank you for listening! Any questions?

@lizzykomen lkomen@beeldengeluid.nl www.europeanacreative.eu www.geluidvannederland.nl http://sounds.bl.uk/sound-maps/ www.historypin.com http://vimeo.com/103364847 http://www.andythomas.com.au/