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Open-source music data software ecosystem

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:52:00 +0200

The Open-source music data software ecosystem is developed in an open collaboration on the rOpenGov platform managed by the University of Turku and under the strategic direction of Reprex.

The software solutions have individual (standard) documentation websites, and their development repositories are open for bug reports, improvements or general peer-review. For an overview refer to our website.

Final iteration of an open-source, software-as-a-service (SaaS) ecosystem of tools for music data collection, which improves and integrates the packages eurostat, regions, iotables, retroharmonize, and spotifyr. It will be validated by stakeholders and delivered in the form of an open repository with full usability documentation.

Diversity and Circulation: Methods & Indicators

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 13:52:00 +0100

Music Diversity and Circulation: Methods and Indicators produce the methodology and data assets for the Report on Music Diversity and Circulation in Europe. The report is developed following the Open Policy Analysis Guidelines.

Diversity and Circulation: Methods & Indicators, following the Open Policy Analysis Guidelines, develops indicators that capture the cross-border circulation of works/repertoire, the cross-border activities of artists and professionals, cultural diversity within European music repertoires, and the diversity of representation within music distribution channels. This results in a cross-national legal mapping of regulatory sources that define cultural and creative diversity, have diversity as an underlying goal and/or employ diversity indicators in its operation.

Methodological approaches, data collection instruments, and indicators are discussed in a methodology workshop. Further sectors may be added on the basis of the feedback collected through interviews with policymakers and stakeholders’ and expert workshops. A cross-national legal mapping will then be conducted. Methods and indicators will be presented in the D5.1 Open Music Observatory as the Music Economy part of broader Digital Music Observatory.

Development of indicators that capture the cross-border circulation of works/repertoire, the cross-border activities of artists and professionals, cultural diversity within European music repertoires, and the diversity of representation within music distribution channels. This results in a cross-national legal mapping of regulatory sources that define cultural and creative diversity, have diversity as an underlying goal and/or employ diversity indicators in its operation. Methodological approaches, data collection instruments, and indicators are discussed in a methodology workshop. Further sectors may be added on the basis of the feedback collected through interviews with policymakers and stakeholders’ and expert workshops. A cross-national legal mapping will then be conducted.

Examples of potential indicator candidates developed in this deliverable include (but are not limited to): etc.

Examples of potential indicator candidates developed in WP2 include:

Cross border streaming activity
Origins of songwriters behind the most popular songs
Cross-borders activity of live performances
Mobility of professionals
Cross-border analysis of flows of authors’ rights in the EU etc.

You can find the repository of all assets on github.com/dataobservatory-eu/music_diversity_circulation_methods_indicators.

Music economy: methods and indicators

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 13:52:00 +0100

D1.1 Economy of music in Europe: Methods and indicators produce the methodology and data assets for the Report on the European Music Economy is developed following the Open Policy Analysis Guidelines.

D1.1 Economy of music in Europe: Methods and indicators, following the Open Policy Analysis Guidelines, identifies critical research questions, data sources and gaps, and data collection methods regarding the economy of music in Europe. It also presents indicators co-developed to measure the economy of music in Europe. The indicator candidates are reviewed and selected indicators are added to the D5.1 Open Music Observatory as the Music Economy part of broader Digital Music Observatory.

We will provide indicators capable of capturing the full economic value of music, including zero-price uses. For this, existing data gaps are identified, analysed and filled. i.e., currently “hidden” data will be reported, MSMEs that currently do not provide data are integrated, zero-price use is measured, etc. Furthermore, methods to effectively act on this data are demonstrated.

Examples of potential indicator candidates developed in this deliverable include (but are not limited to): etc.

Examples of potential indicator candidates developed in WP3 include:

Employment
Value of EU’s music sector
Structure of the market
The impact of the not-for-profit sector on the overall economy of the music sector
Neighbouring rights
Music publishing
Independent music companies
Live music
Export music
Music retail or in-store public performance
Financing of the music sector
Live music regulation
Copyright regulations and evolution of copyright regimes etc.

A pilot study demonstrates exemplary how improved data collection on the value of music can be leveraged to improve artist revenues.

You can find the repository of all assets on github.com/dataobservatory-eu/music_economy_methods_indicators/.

Open Music Observatory

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 13:52:00 +0100

The Open Music Observatory consists of four additional pillars added to the Digital Music Observatory as a prototype for a future European Music Observatory. It is currently in a very early stage and will be filled out with content throughout the project.

ims to contribute to the aim of creating a decentralised European intelligence hub where centralised data collection and analysis have failed in the music industry during the past 20 years. We envision the Open Data Observatory as a decentralised, prototype of a European Music Observatory (EMO), providing a high level of service where official and centralised solutions have failed.

The Open Data Observatory

complementary service to the ESSnet system (Eurostat and the national statistics offices), furnishing it with statistical products (datasets, visualisations),
is partly a statistical software service provider that maintains a software ecosystem (developed in WP4),
partly a solution provider that makes the reproducible open policy analysis method available for various end-user groups represented in our Consortium and beyond.

It will create reproducible “dynamic policy documents” that

can be transferred from one country to another, or
scaled up from one country to a group of countries or even the entire European Union, and
recast with little effort after the inception of new data every year,
due to their very high level of data/output standardisation and interoperability.

Instead of creating large budget, ad-hoc valuation reports, these reports,

with their automatic data harvesting and processing,
can be recast annually with little further investment,
or they can be transferred from Hungary to Bulgaria, from Slovakia to Lithuania or even Ukraine,

as we plan to showcase (note that to ensure the safety of project personnel, no physical travel to Ukraine will be undertaken as part of the project).

Music Economy | Music Diversity and Circulation | Music & Society | Music Tech & Innovation

Report on Music Diversity and Circulation in Europe

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 13:52:00 +0100

The Report on Music Diversity and Circulation in Europe is developed following the Open Policy Analysis Guidelines. You can find the repository of all assets on github.com/dataobservatory-eu/report-music-diversity-circulation-europe/s.

This deliverable belongs to the Music Diversity and Circulation pillar of our Open Music Observatory.

Report on Music Innovation & Technology in Europe

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 13:52:00 +0100

The Report on Music Innovation & Technology in Europe is developed following the Open Policy Analysis Guidelines. You can find the repository of all assets on dataobservatory-eu/report-music-innovation-technology/.

This deliverable belongs to the Music Tech & Innovation pillar of our Open Music Observatory.

Report on Music, Society, and Citizenship in Europe

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 13:52:00 +0100

The Report on Music, Society, and Citizenship in Europe is developed following the Open Policy Analysis Guidelines. It will build on the Music, Society, and Citizenship: Novel data collection methods and indicators deliverable results (see below).

You can find the repository of all assets on github.com/dataobservatory-eu/report-music-society-citizenship/.

WP3 will analyse and fill data gaps regarding music, society and citizenship in Europe. It will also implement a transferable pilot study to use open data to help MSMEs comply with emerging social and environmental sustainability regulations. The central objectives of WP3 will be to provide indicators that capture social value-adds such as participation in music education, participation in amateur music-making, the role of music in other consumer sectors, and the role of music in social networks; to develop methods for measuring the sustainability of the music industry, in coordination with the SDGs; and to create an open framework for transferring the techniques developed to any willing European market.

We will furthermore explore synergies with the ongoing MusicAIRE project Eviota to avoid risks of duplication of work.

Open policy analysis of music, society, and citizenship in Europe. The policy analysis will focus on sustainability and corporate social responsibility in the music industry, within an SDG framework, as well as the state of the art on research on the non-economic contributions of music to society, e.g. via the impact of cultural participation on social cohesion and well-being.
Implementation of a pilot study in Italy. The pilot study will focus on sustainability and corporate social responsibility in the music industry, within an SDG framework. It will demonstrate the ability of reproducible research and innovation tools to help MSMEs comply with emerging social and environmental sustainability regulations, at a viable cost.
Co-creation of policy guidelines and recommendations for scaling and transferring the pilot on an EU27+ level. Using the Open Policy Analysis guidelines, we will demonstrate how to fill partially or fully the data gaps on music, society, and citizenship identified in the Feasibility Study of the European Music Industry. The policy analysis, pilot study design and results, and transfer potential will be presented in D3.2.

Music, Society, and Citizenship: Novel data collection methods and indicators

Following the Open Policy Analysis Guidelines, this deliverable identifies critical research questions, data sources and gaps, and data collection methods regarding music society, and citizenship in Europe. It also presents composite indicators developed to measure the social value and contributions of music. The second iteration will be reviewed by selected stakeholders. The indicators will furthermore be added to the Open Music Observatory (D5.1).

Examples of potential indicator candidates developed in WP3 include:

Music education - informal practices
Training schemes for music professionals
Social networks and music
Scope of the not-for-profit sector in Europe
Social impact of music in communities etc.

This task will focus on the development of indicators following the indicator development cycle of Eurostat, starting with understanding user needs.

Regarding means of measurement, it will update the cultural access and participation (CAP) survey methodologyrecommended in 2012 by ESSnet Culture (as adapted by ARTISJUS, SOZA, and REPREX) in light of new methods developed by the Eurobarometer and European Social Survey core teams in 2020-2022.

It will close with a user workshop where we will demonstrate to (sub-)national policy users, EU-level policy users, and music education and business users a general indicator development framework, as well as many indicator candidates to facilitate a dialogue of needs. The methods and indicators will be presented in
We will collect open-source data on cultural access and participation utilising the software package developed in WP4. Relevant data on environmental impacts will also be collected from the European Environmental Agency and Eurostat using the software package developed in WP4.
We will conduct new cultural access and participation (CAP) surveys in Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, and Italy. The survey strategy will update the 2012 culture statistics recommendation of ESSnet-Culture in light of 2020-2022 methods and use the ICET model framework to enable comparability with business transaction data. To maximise the accuracy of recall and enable synthesis with financial year business data, the CAP surveys will be carried out in Jan/Feb

The survey results will be retrospectively harmonised with earlier CAP surveys conducted by ARTISJUS, SOZA, the Commissions Eurobarometer survey, and EU-SILC for stability and larger international and historical comparison dating back to 2007; the piracy surveys of the EUIPO in years 2013; and the piracy research of UVA and SSSA.

Harmonisation with prior surveys will allow the construction of synthetic longitudinal datasets – one of the outputs will be the comparison of cultural access and participation live and online before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic, including differences between social segments and impact on well-being.
The open collaboration method will be used: all methods and instruments will be fully open, and all data will be harmonised, enabling any representative organisation to localise them and join the action with few time or cost barriers. Localisation assistance may be provided in partner countries.

This deliverable belongs to the Music & Society pillar of our Open Music Observatory.

The Work Package that delivers this report is coordinated by James Edwards, PhD.

Report on the European Music Economy

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 13:52:00 +0100

Economy of music in Europe: Methods and indicators produce the methodology and data assets. The Report on the European Music Economy is developed following the Open Policy Analysis Guidelines.

0.1: For for reproducability and best compliance with OPA, we

The Report on the European Music Economy, for full reproducibility, following the Open Policy Analysis Guidelines, this deliverable is a “live policy document” that is first useful for readers in 2024, but will integrate data as it appears in the pipeline from the inception of the project (and illustration data at the proposal stage). The policy context regarding the economy of music in Europe is described. Lastly, it analyses the transfer potential of the Bulgarian and Hungarian pilot study to other European music ecosystems, as a new best practice. It is designed to be readable as a stand-alone deliverable, but the data it presents will also be integrated into D5.1 Open Music Observatory as the Music Economy part of broader Digital Music Observatory.

Examples of potential indicator candidates developed in this deliverable include (but are not limited to): etc.

Examples of potential indicator candidates developed in WP3 include:

Employment
Value of EU’s music sector
Structure of the market
The impact of the not-for-profit sector on the overall economy of the music sector
Neighbouring rights
Music publishing
Independent music companies
Live music
Export music
Music retail or in-store public performance
Financing of the music sector
Live music regulation
Copyright regulations and evolution of copyright regimes etc.

A pilot study demonstrates exemplary how improved data collection on the value of music can be leveraged to improve artist revenues.

You can find the repository of all assets on github.com/dataobservatory-eu/report-european-music-economy.

Software Validation Report

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 13:52:00 +0100

The Software Validation Report is developed following the Open Policy Analysis Guidelines. You can find the repository of all assets on github.com/dataobservatory-eu/openmuse_software_validation_report.

Overview

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D1.1 Economy of music in Europe: Methods and indicators

D1.2 Report on the European Music Economy

D1.3 Report on Music Data Improvement Initiatives

D2.1Music diversity and circulation: Novel data collection methods and indicators

D2.2 Report on Music Diversity and Circulation in Europe

D3.1 Music, Society, and Citizenship: Novel data collection methods and indicators