Presentation of the paper 'The Social Networks Pilot: Creative re-use of Dutch and British Sound Archives' @ IASA conference Cape Town 09.09.2014

1. 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

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

3. Europeana Creative &
role of the Pilots

4. creative re-use of
digitised content

5. 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

6. how?

7. • 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

8. Thematic Pilots

9. Natural History Education - Serious Game

10. Natural History Education - Memory Card
Game

11. History Education
Tools for creation of
online learning activities

12. Tourism
re-enact a painting
@VanGoYourself

13. labs.europeana.eu

14. www.europeanacreative.eu

15. The Social Networks
Pilot
Sound Connections

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

17. Co-creation workshops
Click to add text

18. British Library
3,000
tracks
in
all:
UK
Sound
Maps;
Wildlife
and
Environmental
recordings

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

20. Sound archive
from NISV
~2500 sounds
Field recordings,
urban,
environmental
sounds
CC-BY-SA
Sound of the Netherlands

24. Users can contribute new sounds

25. What ‘Sound Connections’ does
-­‐Enrich sounds with Europeana materials and
other websources
-Invite communities to interact
-http://www.historypin.com/en/explore/birdlife/

29. 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.

30. 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

31. 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)

33. Collaborations
Amsterdam Museum

34. 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

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

36. 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/