Open Music Europe

Open Music Europe

An open, scalable data-to-policy pipeline for European Music Ecosystems.

Horizon Europe

CORDIS

Open Music Europe Open Music Europe brings together music industry stakeholders and researchers from 11 EU countries and Ukraine. Our goal is to support the European music industry in becoming:

  • More competitive: develop more accurate ways to transparently measure the value of music and its use quantity in live and recorded performances, and other musical activities.

  • Fairer: identify cases in which music industry professionals are compensated fairly compared to the benefits of music, and call out cases of negative biases and discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, and other unjustified inequality.

  • More sustainable: offer tools that small enterprises can use to measure their environmental, social, and governance sustainability.

  • More trustworthy: ensure that the way big data is used in the sector – and the way algorithms recommend music – remain fair and accountable for everyone.

We work with – and produce – open data, open-source software, and open policy analysis. This means that any music industry stakeholder, no matter how large or small, can use our tools freely and contribute to their further development.

Our project’s four scientific work packages (WPs) each contribute to a data pillar of the which follow the structure established in the Feasibility study for the establishment of a European Music Observatory:

We are committed to the Guidelines for Open Policy Analysis | WP1 Music Economy | WP2 Diversity & Circulation | WP3 Music & Society | WP4 Innovation.

Our goal is to create the prototype of a modern, open, transparent, highly automated European Music Observatory. We want to ensure that all representative music stakeholders on the international and EU levels, as well as national and regional music organizations, can take full benefit – and eventually ownership – of our open data, open software, and open algorithms.

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Accomplish­ments

Invited for contracting Horizon Europe
Horizon Europe Jan 2023
Invited for contracting after a competitive tendering for Europe’s prestigious research and innovation program.
AI+Blockchain Product/Market Fit
Yes!Delft Oct 2020
Product-market fit validation in the globally 2nd ranked university-backed incubator to turn CEEMID into a music observatory.
Central European Music Industry Report
Creative Flip Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Presenting the first, multi-country, reproducible music market report in Europe

Recent Posts

Commitment to the Open Policy Analysis Guidelines
The Open Music Europe consortium is committed to implementing the highest standard Open Policy Analysis Guidelines and showing best practices to the FAIR principles using reproducible research principles. We believe that this will increase the quality and usability of our products to our target groups: European cultural policymakers, the music industry and its trade associations, researchers of music.
Last updated on Mar 27, 2023 5 min read
Digital Music Observatory Smart Policy Documents Follow us 🇪🇺 Consortium on CORDIS
Commitment to the Open Policy Analysis Guidelines
Cooperation with the Slovak Ministry of Culture and Other Slovak Partners
The Open Music Europe Consortium and Reprex signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, the Economic University of Bratislava, SOZA on utilizing the Open Policy Analysis results.
Last updated on Mar 9, 2023 2 min read
Digital Music Observatory Smart Policy Documents Follow us 🇪🇺 Consortium on CORDIS
Cooperation with the Slovak Ministry of Culture and Other Slovak Partners
'Being able to spread your music is one of the greatest things about being a musician'
Innerglow is a trio band from Bulgaria playing alternative music. Apart from the electronic sound, they do acoustic concerts, with a growing international audience from sometimes surprising locations and a planned European tour.
Feb 7, 2023 7 min read
'Being able to spread your music is one of the greatest things about being a musician'

Key persons and institutional members of Open Music Europe

Join our Observatory Stakeholder Network as a data curator, developer. More about contributing: Automated Observatory Contributors’ Handbook. You find more information on the EU’s official CORDIS website.

consortium partners

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Reprex

Reprex is managing the Digital Music Observatory open knowlege platform prototype, develops its software and creates high-quality datasets.

SYNYO

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Aloaded

Business partner, development of streaming market price and volume indicators.

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Artisjus

WP1 Music economy

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HearDis!

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Institute for Information Law

WP1 Music Economy | WP4 Music Innovation & Tech

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Music Export Ukraine

Music export dissemination partner

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Music Innovation Hub

Innovation dissemination partner

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Musicautor - Музикаутор

Music industry partner.

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MXF - Muzikos eksporto fondas

Partner in music and nightlife sectors and international music exchanges

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rOpenGov

rOpenGov network

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Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

Scientific research partner—open data and copyright.

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Sinus-Institute

Scientific parnter, economics, statistiscs, finance

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SOZA

WP1 Music Economy | WP2 Diversity & Circulation

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University of Economics in Bratislava

WP1 Music Economy

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University of Turku

WP4 Innovation

work package leaders

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Daniel Antal, CFA

Policy director and WP5 Dissemination, Communication and Exploitation Lead

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Dr Caterina Sganga

Academic director & WP2 Diversity & Circulation Lead

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Dr James Edwards

Open Music Europe Program Directory & WP3 Music, Society, Citizenship lead

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Dr Leo Lahti

WP4 Innovation & Tech work package lead

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Mark Adam Harold

Open Music Europe project ambassador

Open Music Europe Consortium

Join our open collaboration team as a data curator, developer or business developer! More about contributing: Automated Observatory Contributors’ Handbook.

developers

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Mária Kmety Barteková

Creative Industry Indicator Specialist

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Andrés García Molina, PhD

Data Scientist & Ethnomusicologist

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New Developers

Future co-developer

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Pyry Kantanen

R package testing and data curation.

researchers

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Gabija Liaugminaitė

Data curator

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Alona Dmukhovska

Music futures and social equity data curator

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Dominika Semaňáková

Musicologist

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Eszter Kabai

Data curator for cultural diversity and data pooling

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Rosina Petrova

Rights management data expert

consortium partners

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Reprex

Reprex is managing the Digital Music Observatory open knowlege platform prototype, develops its software and creates high-quality datasets.

SYNYO

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Aloaded

Business partner, development of streaming market price and volume indicators.

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Artisjus

WP1 Music economy

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HearDis!

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Institute for Information Law

WP1 Music Economy | WP4 Music Innovation & Tech

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Music Export Ukraine

Music export dissemination partner

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Music Innovation Hub

Innovation dissemination partner

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Musicautor - Музикаутор

Music industry partner.

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MXF - Muzikos eksporto fondas

Partner in music and nightlife sectors and international music exchanges

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rOpenGov

rOpenGov network

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Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

Scientific research partner—open data and copyright.

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Sinus-Institute

Scientific parnter, economics, statistiscs, finance

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SOZA

WP1 Music Economy | WP2 Diversity & Circulation

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University of Economics in Bratislava

WP1 Music Economy

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University of Turku

WP4 Innovation

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New Curators

Future curator

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New Developers

Future co-developer

Recent & Upcoming Talks

More formal events than our meetups with a set agenda

Music and Creative Industry Indicators from Needs Assessment to Automated Production
An open invitation for a collaboration to help the Slovak government, the natonal assembly, and various civil and business societies to build and monitor evidence-based policies based on the experience of the music sector.
Oct 18, 2022 11:30 AM — 1:30 PM Inštitút Kultúrnej Politiky
Slides 🇪🇺 Consortium on CORDIS
Music and Creative Industry Indicators from Needs Assessment to Automated Production

Featured Publications

March, 2021
Feasibility Study On Promoting Slovak Music In Slovakia & Abroad
Feasibility Study On Promoting Slovak Music In Slovakia & Abroad

Why are the total market shares of Slovak music relatively low both on the domestic and the foreign markets? This is a background of the Open Music Europe project; we pledged to continue this feasibility study in WP2.
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January, 2020
Central & Eastern European Music Industry Report 2020
Central & Eastern European Music Industry Report 2020

The results of the first Hungarian, Slovak, Croatian and Czech music industry reports are compared with Armenian, Austrian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Serbian and Slovenian data and findings.
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Software Releases

Last updated on Aug 11, 2022
dataset: Create Interoperable FAIR Datasets
dataset: Create Interoperable FAIR Datasets

Publish your datasets with FAIR metadata in open science repositories and place them on knowledge graphs
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Last updated on Aug 11, 2022
statcodelists: Use Standardized Statistical Codelists
statcodelists: Use Standardized Statistical Codelists

The goal of retroharmonize is to facilitate retrospective (ex-post) harmonization of data, particularly survey data, in a reproducible manner.
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Last updated on Jun 28, 2021
retroharmonize R package for survey harmonization
retroharmonize R package for survey harmonization

The goal of retroharmonize is to facilitate retrospective (ex-post) harmonization of data, particularly survey data, in a reproducible manner.
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Last updated on Feb 10, 2022
iotables R package for working with symmetric input-output tables
iotables R package for working with symmetric input-output tables

The goal of iotables is to make allow a programmatic acces to the symmetric input-output tables of Eurostat. It creates multipliers, calculates direct, indirect and induced effects from European SIOT tables.
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Last updated on Jun 21, 2021
regions R package to create sub-national statistical indicators
regions R package to create sub-national statistical indicators

regions currently takes care of 20,000 sub-divisional boundary changes in Europe since 1999.
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Software

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All retroharmonize iotables regions dataset statcodelists
dataset: Create Interoperable FAIR Datasets
Publish your datasets with FAIR metadata in open science repositories and place them on knowledge graphs
Last updated on Aug 11, 2022
Cite DOI Code Documentation Follow Connect
dataset: Create Interoperable FAIR Datasets
statcodelists: Use Standardized Statistical Codelists
The goal of retroharmonize is to facilitate retrospective (ex-post) harmonization of data, particularly survey data, in a reproducible manner.
Last updated on Aug 11, 2022
Cite DOI Code Documentation Follow Connect
statcodelists: Use Standardized Statistical Codelists
retroharmonize R package for survey harmonization
The goal of retroharmonize is to facilitate retrospective (ex-post) harmonization of data, particularly survey data, in a reproducible manner.
Last updated on Jun 28, 2021
Cite DOI Code Documentation Follow Connect
retroharmonize R package for survey harmonization
iotables R package for working with symmetric input-output tables
The goal of iotables is to make allow a programmatic acces to the symmetric input-output tables of Eurostat. It creates multipliers, calculates direct, indirect and induced effects from European SIOT tables.
Last updated on Feb 10, 2022
Cite Source Document DOI Code Documentation Follow Connect
iotables R package for working with symmetric input-output tables
regions R package to create sub-national statistical indicators
regions currently takes care of 20,000 sub-divisional boundary changes in Europe since 1999.
Last updated on Jun 21, 2021
Cite DOI Code Documentation Follow Connect
regions R package to create sub-national statistical indicators

Recent Publications

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Daniel Antal, Dáša Bulíková (translator) (2021). Feasibility Study On Promoting Slovak Music In Slovakia & Abroad.

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Daniel Antal (2020). Central & Eastern European Music Industry Report 2020.

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Contact

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