Open Music Registers

This project aims to establish open, structured, and interoperable registers that describe the economic activities and business entities in the music sector. It supports better policymaking, research, and innovation through shared data infrastructures and standards, particularly aligning with the European Data Strategy and sector-specific needs.

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This document has been prepared by OpenMusE project partners as an account of work carried out within the framework of the EC-GA contract no 101095295.

The Open Music Europe project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe, research and innovation programme, under Grant Agreement No. 101095295. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Any dissemination of results must indicate that it reflects only the author’s view and that the Commission Agency is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

This is a living document which provides an overview of D1.2, which is a linked open data database supported by applications. As a living document conforming to OPA, it can be found at https://github.com/dataobservatory-eu/music-economy-register with standardised folders and file names. Its current version can be read in multiple formats here.

This repository uses Quarto to generate a technical book. Most of the book can be edited in any markdown editor, but it is recommended to use RStudio or Quarto for contribution that includes codes. The key chapters include:

• index.qmd: Introduction and overview

• glossary.qmd: Key terminology

• ambition.qmd: Vision and goals

• t12.qmd: Technical Annex of the D1.2 deliverable

• surveying.qmd: Surveying and building register datasets

• references.qmd: Bibliography and references

• appendix-how_to_use.qmd: Practical guidance for users

The documentation is continuously updated to support the development of linked open datasets and practical register management tools.

Bibliography Files

The bib/ folder contains all the bibliographic references used throughout the documentation. Each .bib file is organized by thematic areas related to administrative data, cultural data spaces, economic classification systems, and music sector metadata standards.

• bib/administrativedata.bib: References on the usage of administrative data for economic and social measurements.

• bib/cm.bib: Sources related to change management, particularly in data governance contexts.

• bib/collections.bib: Literature on the management, digitization, and interoperability of cultural collections.

• bib/datagovernance.bib: Key references on data governance frameworks and practices relevant to music economy datasets.

• bib/datamodels.bib: Bibliography on conceptual and logical data models, including those used for registers and identifiers.

• bib/dataspace.bib: Resources focusing on the European Data Spaces initiative and related technical frameworks.

• bib/ddi.bib: References on the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) standards, especially metadata for social, behavioral, and economic sciences.

• bib/ddex.bib: Bibliography for the DDEX (Digital Data Exchange) music metadata standards.

• bib/eulaw.bib: Relevant European Union legislation, directives, and regulations impacting data spaces, copyright, and cultural sectors.

• bib/identifiers.bib: Key materials on identifier systems (e.g., ISNI, ISRC, IPNs) for music and cultural works.

• bib/ILO.bib: References to International Labour Organization (ILO) standards, classifications, and surveys.

• bib/ISOdata.bib: Bibliography for ISO standards relevant to music metadata, publishing, and administrative records.

• bib/metadata.bib: General references on metadata standards and practices across multiple domains.

• bib/musiceducation.bib: Sources related to music education data and its role in cultural statistics.

• bib/musicidentifiers.bib: Literature on specialized music sector identifiers, including works, recordings, and artist identifiers.

• bib/nerd.bib: Materials about Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation (NERD) tools used in open music data.

• bib/OpenMusE.bib: Publications and references specifically related to the Open Music Europe (OpenMusE) project.

• bib/ontologies.bib: Bibliography on ontologies for cultural heritage, creative industries, and linked open data.

• bib/privatelyhelddata.bib: Literature on the governance, access, and use of privately-held data relevant to cultural economy research.

• bib/wikidata.bib: References on the use of Wikidata and Wikimedia platforms in open knowledge graphs for music and culture.

• bib/esco_nace.bib: Bibliography concerning European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO) and NACE economic classifications.

• bib/eosc.bib: Key documents related to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and open science infrastructures.

• bib/eccch.bib: Bibliography for initiatives related to the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH).

• bib/thesauri.bib: Resources on thesauri and controlled vocabularies used for cultural data description and interoperability.

How to Contribute

We welcome contributions!
If you are working on administrative data, cultural data spaces, or open data for the music sector, please get in touch or submit an issue or pull request.

Ways to Contribute

• Correct or extend the glossary

• Suggest improvements to the registers and classifications

• Report or fix issues in the Quarto build

📩 You can start by opening an issue or submitting a pull request.

Authors, Contributors and Acknowledgments

• Daniel Antal, CFA (Reprex) - main author, developer

• Richard Demčák (SOZA) - collective management interoperability

• Matej Grochal (Wikimedia Slovensko) - Wikipedian in residence

• Asmah Frederico (Reprex) - data modelling and data management support

• Marián Jankovič (SOZA) - legal interoperability

• Anna Márta Mester (Reprex) - data modelling and data stewardship

• Edite Punka (Reprex) - metadata support

• Anna Žilková (Music Center Slovakia) - library interoperability

Special thanks to the many contributors from the Open Music Europe initiative and related projects.

License

This documentation and its source code are shared under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, unless otherwise noted.

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