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DISMARC - a central entry point for audio content
Dear colleagues,
This invitation is aimed at European music archives holding original and rare recordings. Whether museum, broadcaster, folk institute, university or national audio archive - any archive joining the DISMARC operation not only helps in making European audio heritage available to the public but also becomes part of the searchable European audio treasure-chest.
For researchers, broadcasters, record labels and music lovers of all kinds, the DISMARC project is a step towards the future. Currently, DISMARC is the only quality project in this field with a trans-national reach. It is a European Commission-funded programme and is led by a consortium of ten partners from seven European countries.
DISMARC is intended to encourage free exchange of information, but business applications will also emerge, such as licensing and broadcast of audio. DISMARC will function as the ‘audio pillar’ providing audio to the European Digital Library.
We invite you to join the operation and we include guidelines below.
Thank you very much and
WELCOME to DISMARC
Sincerely
Johannes Theurer
- Coordinator / RBB -
Who can join?
All European-owned institutions hosting digital metadata about their music archive can join. DISMARC’s focus is on original and rare recordings. It is a European initiative - non-European-owned archives are welcome to contribute data to the DISMARC catalogue but under EU-rules cannot benefit from EU-funding.
Technical
It does not matter what kind of database the archive operates. As long as your database allows the copying of data (for example to an Excel file or as an XML string). DISMARC stores only this copy of your data.
Financial
Your archive will not have to pay for the DISMARC service, as DISMARC is funded by the EU. Following the EU-funded phase (which ends in summer 2008), we will do our best to ensure that DISMARC will continue to be a free service after that time.
Free public access to the DISMARC portal is already guaranteed for at least five years following August 2008.
Standards
DISMARC does not impose or require any changes to your established archive routines in any way.
Audio
DISMARC owns an audio database, delivering access to rights-free audio. Please note that any audio contributed should be in the public domain or fully-owned by the archive.
How to join / administrative and technical issues
Step 1
Please complete the attached Assignment for Use of the catalogue data in the DISMARC portal. It should be signed / stamped by a director.
- For questions regarding administrative issues, your contact is Martin Gordon: martin.gordon@rbb-online.de
- For questions regarding technical issues, your contact is Gerda Koch: kochg@ait.co.at
- For questions regarding general issues, your contact is the DISMARC-coordination office: martin.gordon@rbb-online.de
Step 2
Please send 50 to 100 items of test data from your catalogue to the DISMARC technical team. Gerda Koch, on behalf of AIT in Austria, will check the general consistency of the material (kochg@ait.co.at).
Step 3
The test data will be mapped to the DISMARC standard (a specially-developed standard based on Dublin Core), and the import routine will be explained. This process is done in cooperation between AIT and your archive personnel.
Step 4
All data selected by you will be incorporated into the DISMARC database, and will be visible and searchable online.
Legal Obligations
Your archive can withdraw from its decision to participate at any time.
Intellectual property rights (IPR) on catalogues:
Under EU law, the collection of information in a catalogue creates an additional copyright, owned by the institution which owns the original catalogue. Please ensure that you contribute only data to DISMARC which you have the right to distribute.
Special DISMARC features
The DISMARC search tools offer highly developed search options. By way of example, multilingual searches: you can search for terms in one language and optionally choose to search simultaneously in more than 36 languages. If a customer is looking for titles including the word “Turkey”, the database can be automatically searched for “Turkiye”, “Türkei” and all other translations which exist in the database. Some 3000 terms have been translated into 36 European and non-European languages.
Audio files from the DISMARC catalogue can be streamed immediately after discovery via the DISMARC portal. An intuitive ‘browse portal’ locates the music on a world map, which can be queried using various criteria (country, genre, period of recording, archive).
An IPR tool enables fast and easy-to-handle communications between customers and archives. It offers various standard licensing agreements in a modular format.
Documents
The following Assignment for Use is your entry to DISMARC. By signing, you become a DISMARC participant.
| Assignment for Use |
For more information about the project, please visit www.dismarc.org . Here you will find the first annual report, informative Powerpoints and information about the consortium members.
