Dismarc portal

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-	The DISMARC project is an EU-funded initiative to encourage and support the interoperability of music related data.	+	== The DISMARC Portal ==
-	The majority of music archives throughout Europe do not dispose of publicly available access points to their catalogues and if they do, they often focus individually on providing resource discovery facilities to their own network or community only.	+	The purpose of the DISMARC project is to establish a '''metadata platform''' for the discovery and diffusion of knowledge concerning music data.
-	DISMARC establishes a gateway to freely available audio-content which will increase the visibility of the individual collections and make the content discoverable to a wider audience. The project offers music archives the opportunity to submit music collections for aggregation in the DISMARC repository via harvesting of the metadata records associated with the resources.	+	The project addresses problems of interactivity between different systems, which are mainly caused by varying methods of metadata description. Existing software tools are used to map fields from each database onto a project-defined standard format.
-	[[Category: Dismarc portal]]	+	The DISMARC Metastore provides a '''single user interface''' allowing users to access audio and audio-related data of the DISMARC partners. The purpose of the DISMARC Metastore and portal is to make it easier for users (the academic community, the general public and the media) to find and access the vast and often undisclosed number of audio and audio-related data held in various sound archives.

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The DISMARC Portal

The purpose of the DISMARC project is to establish a metadata platform for the discovery and diffusion of knowledge concerning music data.

The project addresses problems of interactivity between different systems, which are mainly caused by varying methods of metadata description. Existing software tools are used to map fields from each database onto a project-defined standard format.

The DISMARC Metastore provides a single user interface allowing users to access audio and audio-related data of the DISMARC partners. The purpose of the DISMARC Metastore and portal is to make it easier for users (the academic community, the general public and the media) to find and access the vast and often undisclosed number of audio and audio-related data held in various sound archives.