Some of you have already heard about DISMARC (DIScovering Music ARChives) – the EU co-funded project uniting Europe’s music archives and presenting the results to a global audience.
By 2010, the EU intends to have a fully functioning new portal Europeana – the Europe’s flagship digital library, supported by the EU’s i2010 initiative. Its aim is to present Europe’s digital cultural heritage to the world.
EuropeanaConnect is a project connecting DISMARC and Europeana. It uses the existing infrastructure created by DISMARC to aggregate audio and deliver content to Europeana from content holders such as archives, museums, libraries, individuals, record companies (and others) to a global audience. This open access naturally invokes issues of copyright, and for this reason all material presented via Europeana is either in the public domain or is owned by the contributing organization, institution or individual.
Hereby we invite all the institutions and individual collectors who have non-copyright digital audio resources to share your collections (or their parts) with the European audience.
In my opinion, we should feel responsible for providing valuable and interesting content for Europeana, therefore my institution – the Institute of Arts of the Polish Academy of Sciences – will deliver 2.000 recordings of Polish folk music from 1945-1950.
I strongly believe that contributing to such initiative is a way to increase visibility of our discipline and our institutions.
If you are aware of collections or collectors interested in joining, or if you need more details, please contact me directly.
Best,
Ewa
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Prof. AMU Dr. Hab. Ewa Dahlig-Turek
Deputy Director for Research
Polish Academy of Sciences
Institute of Arts