Music in Europeana workshop

EuropeanaConnect WP6 partners and the Institute of Ethnomusicology (GNI) of the Scientific Research Centre (ZRC) of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU) is proud to announce its International workshop on audio aggregation for Europe's cultural online flagship portal: Music in Europeana, to be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia on June 16/17 2011 at: Hall of the Geographical Museum GIAM ZRC SAZU, Gosposka ulica 16, 1000, Ljubljana.

The workshop is aiming at a broad public especially interested in European cultural heritage. We are expecting representatives from various audio archives, private as well as public service. Musicologists, journalists and audio engineering experts will hopefully find it useful to join. The main topics are:
· Building the audio column in Europeana.
· How to benefit most from joining Europeana as a content provider?
· State of the art in data-mining and audio similarity software.
· Intellectual property rights issues will be discussed.

Participating speakers are representing the Europeana head office (Netherlands), Fraunhofer Institute (Germany), Angewandte Informationstechnik Forschungsgesellschaft (Austria), Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (Germany) and more.

The conference language will be English. Participation in this workshop is free. The workshop is organised on behalf of
EuropeanaConnect WP6 partners by the Institute of Ethnomusicology ZRC SAZU.

If want to join, your registration before May 31 2011 is appreciated. Please get in touch with one of the contact persons below:

Contact persons:

Peter Vendramin
phone.: +386 1 4706 277
e-mail: peter.vendramin@zrc-sazu.si

Dr. Drago Kunej
phone.: +386 1 4706 271
e-mail: drago.kunej@zrc-sazu.si
The workshop is part of the project EuropeanaConnect, which is chaired by the ÖNB, National library of Austria, and it is co-funded by the EU.