SKCMBDb: Building the Slovak Comprehensive Music Database in the Slovak Music Centre
Abstract
This slide deck presents the Open Music Observatory approach to building interoperable, federated data sharing spaces for music and cultural heritage. It outlines how European Interoperability Framework (EIF) principles and Data Sharing Space (DSS) architectures can be applied to connect libraries, rights management organisations, archives, labels, and digital platforms without centralising or replacing existing systems, and takes the creation of the Slovak Comprehensive Music Database with the Slovak Music Centre and SOZA as the example. The presentation was made in the General Assembly and Conference of the International Association of Music Information Centres (IAMIC) on 21 November 2024 where the Slovak Music Centre is a member as part of the series of stakeholder consultations for the Open Music Observatory. The presentation introduces practical service integration workflows, Wikibase-based shared namespaces, and automated data curation methods that enable authoritative, reusable metadata for composers, works, recordings, and performances. Through concrete examples from Slovakia and Central Europe, it demonstrates how aligned identifiers, multilingual authority control, and semantic interoperability improve discoverability, reduce duplicated work, and increase the visibility of national and minority repertoires across public catalogues and commercial platforms. The slides also describe the Open Music Observatory’s role as a service-oriented infrastructure for data repair, validation, and dissemination, including training and capacity building for libraries and rights professionals, and outline both open (publicly funded) and premium data curation services developed within the OpenMusE framework.
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Reprex B.V. SKCMDb Building the Slovak Comprehensive Music Database in the Slovak Music Centre Daniel Antal, CFA (Reprex B.V.) 21 November 2024. IAMIC Conference, Vienna https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18036465
Reprex B.V. 2 From the Feasibility Study
`Reprex B.V. Sustainability Why do they not recommend music from Slovakia in Slovakia for Slovak people? How can we avoid that small repertoires lose their original market, their only market? Findings •Small repertoires have very low-quality data representation •Because of low income, data improvement and documentation must not be expensive •Public-Private Partnership is needed to solve data problems
`Reprex B.V. The opposite of success It is often hard to say what would be a perfect metadata, or what we want to do with the data. We started with the nightmare scenario: that a new release ends of on Forgotify, a funny service that plays songs which had never been played on Spotify. We realised that many songs, often gold records, end up here with wrong data, because recommender systems place them on the wrong shelf and recommend them to an inappropriate audience.
`Reprex B.V. What is at stake? Wrong metadata comes with a cost. In the first 18 months of MLC, it returned a very large amount to mainly independent artists. Our experience shows in Slovakia that similar proportions of the royalties may be late or lost due to data problems. Often, royalties are not collected because of the high collection cost compared to the outstanding sum. We want to make royalty collection much cheaper.
Reprex B.V. Case study: MIC information could be improved or enriched
Reprex B.V. 7 Building the Slovak Comprehensive Music Database
Reeprex B.V. Poster & Team Please take a look at our poster in the breaks. Credits to our team: •Slovak Music Centre: Anna Žilková •SOZA: Richard Demčák, Dr Marián Jankovič, Dominika Semaňáková, •Wikipedian in Residence: Matej Grochal •University of Amsterdam IVIR: Dr. Fábio Generoso Vieira (statistical impact assessments) •Aloaded: Love Ojensa (non-profit music distribution) •Reprex: Mester, Anna Márta (information management), Barát, Andor (engineering.) •Special thanks for the Ministry of Culture, the Slovak National Library and the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic
Company Name Dataspace for the European music sector Our ReprexBase system combines Wikibase with a peer-reviewed set of software libraries for statistically valid indicator production, impact and materiality testing. Our peer-reviwed, scientific software libraries Application layer: distribution, algorithmic bias, sustainability Data curation Coordination of enterprise and open graphs
Reprex B.V. Open Music Observatory timeline The CEEMID background and Open Music Europe 2014 20262024202120192018 2020 2022 2023 2025 Memorandum of Understanding Hungarian Music Industry Report Hungarian Private Copying valuation series Croatian PCR Report DOI:10.5281/ze nodo.10284382 Slovak Music Industry Report CEE Report DOI:10.13140/RG. 2.2.21450.31686 Feasibility Study, Eu best practice, Yes!Delft AI Lab Digital Music Observatory, JUMP Music Market Accelerator, SK Feasibility Study Various Use Cases, Grant Application Open Music Europe Open Music Observatory Open Music Observatory applications Further exploitation pathways AI Act CSRD Open Music Europe DGA, EIF Act Horizon Europe call Feasibility studies Triple Transition Music Moves Europe
Reprex B.V. T5.1 Timeline 2023 03. 2024 11. 2024 09. 2024 05. 2024 01. 2023 11. 2023 12. 2024 04. 2024 06. 2024 07. 2024 10. 2023 05. 2023 04. 2023 10. Contributors Manual DOI:10.5281/zeno do.10259347 Unlabel concept Service concept Data Model, Statistical coordination DOI:10.5281/zeno do.8399254 eXtreme design, SKCMDb plan DOI:10.5281/zeno do.10392759 Dataset, DOI:10.5281/ze nodo.10574908 First ISBN book published, https://zenodo. org/records/103 79856 tuRtle DOI:10.528 1/zenodo.1 1582410 Reprexbase, curatorial model DOI:10.5281/zenodo .12092221 EU Open Data Portal, Wikibase Cloud Europeana Pilot Stakeholders Observatory Stakeholder Network rollout Aggregators Rollout IAML presentation for large scale rolloiut Open Music Data Exchange Forum Collection Layer
Reprex B.V. Musician Community Ambassadors Our practice is informed by data feminism, and we aim to correct data biases in existing data and knowledge sources to ensure that big data and AI works for all. Our ambassadors, Celeste Buckingham and Nina Kohout volunteered to discuss our approach for not only a lawful application of GDPR but also to allow the musician community to stay in the loop and maintain data stewardship.
Reprex B.V. 19 Invitation: ECCCH & European Music Observatory
Reeprex B.V. Feasibility study for a European Music Observatory Key policy document guiding our work Identifies nearly 40 data gaps that burden both policy work and music business operations. These include data that are: -Scarce - the amount of available data is insufficient) -Fragmented - data has to be collected from numerous different sources) -Hidden - data might well exist, but cannot be found -Restricted - the data cannot be accessed due to technical or IP barriers -Unharmonised - the accessed data needs extensive and resource-intense pre-processing We have demonstrated that many of these gaps can be filled through open data reuse, cross-stakeholder data sharing, improved surveying, harmonisation, and other novel methods.
Reprex B.V. Open Music Europe OpenMusE is a Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Action project: -Open Music Observatory –a prototype of a data observatory that is compatible with Europeana, ECCCH, the Open Data Portal and Eurostat. -Reprexbase –a system that connects statistical, business registers, RiC, CIDOC, Europeaan, IAMIC, IAML, and CISAC systems, and Wikidata. -Eviota –CSRD/ESRS compatible ESG management tool. -Unlabelintegrated data and music distribution system -SurveyHarmonies –ex ante harmonised questionnaires to ex post join data with existing Eurobarometer, ESS and other data sources.
Reprex B.V. Layers of interoperability Technical interoperability Semantic interoperability Organisational interoperability Legal interoperability Integrated service governance Rules of the data exchanges and use is harmonised to a level that negotiations and permits can be obtained fast to join the data. Organisations harmonise their internal workflows and jobs that use data to benefit the most from improving and enriching their own data with other sharing partner’s data. The jobs and workflows of the organisations in the data space share a vocabulary of meanings of the collected and shared data’s definitions and meanings. The data is translated to a standard graph format with shared annotation so that it can be easily exchanged, synchronized among partners.
Reprex B.V. With big data problems everybody is small ### very few •Ontology engineers •Information scientists •Data steward and engineer •statistician is available, so cooperation is imperative [Sanitized] Csak az EU-ban 49 000 cégnek kell felelősséget vállalniuk, hogy teljes ellátási láncuk megfeleljen az ESRS-nek Az ellátási lánc nagysága ~ 23 000 000 cég ~1 000 000 civil szervezet ~1 000 000 köztestület 01 Problems with ddata 100,000 sound recording Spotify: per day Europeana: 10 years We are looking for ways for public and private metadata improvements The Slovak Music Dataspace is designed as a PPP, and we hope to initiate at least metadata cooperation between the private and public sector.
Reprex B.V. Public-Private Partnership for trustworthy music data We create data (sharing) spaces that not only follow the models of the European Interoperability Framework and EOSC but extend to interoperability with private partners 04 Data coordination & interoperability Open Science Many disciplines study music, including in Open Music Europe, and we would like to reuse their data. We see the reuse of information models and ontologies for metadata improvement the most promising, because ontology development is more suitable for basic research than business. Coordination of privately-held and public sector data The Data Governance Act and various statistical regulations allowing novel data coordination between privately-held and governmental data. We want to facilitate “experimental statistics” and novel music library products to help metadata-poor rightsholders to become competitive in the digital space. Public sector information reuse (open data) The Open Data Directive (2019/1024/EU), the Data Governance Act (2022/868/EU) gives legal access to much data for free or at marginal cost, however, these valuable data assets need to be reprocessed to be useful for the music sector. EIF Public sector information reuse EOSC Open Science Collective management, publishers, labels, “Unlabel” Data observatory Our solution involves the creation of a data sharing space operated by a permanent observatory.
Reprex B.V. Building of the EMO, modelled after the Europeana project EUROPEAN MUSIC OBSERVATORY Observatory Stakeholder Network Open Music Data Exchange Forum Open Music Project A consultation body, similar to the Aggregators’ Forum in Europeana, for the technical solution providers or large representative stakeholders, who do not own the data, but technically they handle it. -Creating the Open Music Observatory is a cornerstone task of the OpenMusE Horizon Europe research and innovation project. -The WPs curate the “data pillars” and serve as a temporary project organization for the OMO with a gradually transition of ownership to representative stakeholders. Vision and ambition The Observatory Stakeholder Network is presented as a consulting body where future founders of the Observatory itself, and a Music Observatory Association of music data users, providers may find their future role. OPEN MUSIC OBSERVATORY