OpenMusE | CCSI Data Observatory

Open Data Day in The Hague 2023

Sun, 05 Mar 2023 13:00:00 +0100

Reprex is a finalist for The Hague Innovators Award 2022, and the prize of the audience, in the startup category with our respectable competitors, Sibö, WECO, STHRIVE and ECOBLOQ.

Reprex will organize events on the International Open Data Day. Save the date in your calendar.

Big Data for All - Building Collaborative Data Observatories

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 17:30:00 +0000

Reprex’s co-founder, Daniel Antal talked in the Eindhoven Innovation Café about these issues. You can watch the recorded version of the the livestream that starts at 5 minutes and 22 seconds:

This is a past event. Check out our forthcoming events or write to Daniel Antal or to antaldaniel. Or send an email.

The event invitation text and links

Big data and AI creates inequalities. It puts historically marginalized people, like ethnic minorities, and womxn, at a disadvantage. Because AI and checking on AI require plenty of data, usually only giant corporations, the wealthiest governments, and university entities can make it work for them. Reprex is a Hague-based, international startup that wants to impact various sustainable development goals by enabling smaller organizations to join their smaller datasets, use open data, create linked available data, and collaboratively make a change.

Reprex is a finalist for the Hague Innovation Award for impact startup (please 🙏, vote for us!). Daniel Antal, one of the co-founders, will talk about their approach to building an international coalition of music organizations to pool data and challenge data monopolies using organizational techniques, a collaboration ethos, and data from the open-source developer world.

Using the example of independent music creators, who often find themselves in a position where it is more expensive to claim their money from global platforms, he will talk about how to reduce inequalities in the world of big data and AI with collaboration on web 3.0. In the Q&A he will take questions on how to apply their know-how, and generally linked open data to other art+tech or creative segments or problems for which everybody is too small, like meeting the Paris Accord greenhouse gas targets bit by bit, small company by small company.

In the Q&A, we can discuss many things

How can Reprex help an individual creator in music, or in fashion and design, or any other area?
What sort of help it can give to researchers, research institutes, specialist consultancies, law firms, and other knowledge-based actors?

What sort of partners is Reprex looking for in Eindhoven?

Check out our projects

Digital Music Observatory and Listen Local
Cultural & Creative Sectors and Industries Observatory and short call for potential partners.
Green Deal Data Observatory and simple, connected, financial and sustainability reporting for creative enterprises and others

Reprex: the impact startup

Check out our accomplishments since the foundation in 2020

Listen Local Nederland

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 17:00:00 +0000

We will carry out the research outlined in our feasibility study within the [OpenMuse] project from 1 January 2023 in an open collaboration with cultural policymakers, the local music ecosystem, and open source developers. Our partner, MXF tries to put the findings into actionable data services in Lithuania and Ukraine with the help of MusicAire. We develop open tools that can be applied in Utrecht, the Hague, Budapest, Tallinn, Vilnius, Bratislava, or anywhere.

This is a past event. Check out our forthcoming events or write to Daniel Antal or to antaldaniel. Or send an email.

Our ongoing project since 2014 is Listen Local. We would like to find out how can a local music ecosystem, or a small scene avoid being colonized by global players on streaming platforms, radio, or in-store music. How can we make sure that music recommendations connect bands in Utrecht with fans in Utrecht? If a Polish band is visiting Utrecht, music lovers will find their show?

We are arriving at opening to Klein Berlijn at 17.00 where you can sit down with a coffee or a beer to chat. No reservation needed. At 19.30 we are getting on our OV fiets and cycle over to the Vechtclub where we will meet people of the local indie scene, Tiny Rooms, and see two independent bands on stage.

As the sales and promotion of recorded music get fully automated, and even the curation of music for live events gets more and more influenced by machine learning outcomes or social media metrics, how can a DIY label remain relevant? How you can run a small club or a label without having to invest in a multi-million euro data engineering team? Make sure that the algorithm will learn successfully your music offering.

‘I feel at home where people care’ Read Gabija’s interview and check out the band with us.

Reprex’s motto is big data for all. We want to fight data inequalities, data monopolies, and make big data and AI work for self-released artists or small labels, too.

Gabija and Daniel are visiting Utrecht to meet DIY musicians, labels, researchers, fans and friends to find new partners for our Listen Local projects. On an intellectual level, we are interested in trustworthy AI, data feminism, and providing a proper digital representation to music and live performances for all. On a more emotional level, we want to meet musicians and music lovers from the indie scene.

We want to help independent artists to find their next audience, and fans to find their next favorite record or a truly fulfilling live music experience. Gabija had a conversation with The Kurws in our Listen Local Interviews series. She asked the band about where they are coming from, where they want to go? Where they are local? And what they have to offer to the people who will join us on 31 October 2022 in Utrecht?

Check out our projects

Digital Music Observatory and Listen Local
Cultural & Creative Sectors and Industries Observatory and short call for potential partners.
Make interviews, get interviewed, write blog posts, or syndicate our content to and from Data & Lyrics.
Don’t forget to vote for Reprex in the Hague Innovators Award competition 2022. The audience voting starts on 1 November 2022.
Download our submission for the competition.
Get in touch!

Music and Creative Industry Indicators from Needs Assessment to Automated Production

Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:42:00 +0200

Invitation for an open collaboration

Digital Music Observatory | Listen Local Slovakia

Controls

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Speaker notes: S | Fullscreen: F | Zoom: Alt + Click

OpenMuse

Presentation outline

Part I: Daniel Antal introduces the OpenMuse project [general aims, methodology, work packages], and our offering to Slovak CCSI stakeholders.
Part II: Mária Kmety Barteková our offering for indicator design and creation, methodology, timeline, quality control.
Part III: Daniel Antal our offering for cultural diversity policies, radio quotas and beyond
Part IV: Quesitons and identification of partners and data sources.

Part I: OpenMuse offering

Offering Tools

Smart policy documents
Dashboards
Open source software

Offering Methodology

Open Policy Analysis, “Live Policy Documents”
Indicator design
Slovak music market share
Harmonized data collection, when needed

Open Polcy Analysis

Live Policy Documents

Trustworthy Cultural AI: make big data work for Lithuania artists and small labels, publishers and CCIs
Synchronize the (meta)data of Lithuania heritage and present cultural production as linked open data, so that autonomous systems of Spotify, YouTube, Wikipedia, Library of Congress, etc, can read it.
Practical, open source solutions that can immediately applied
Access to the OpenMuse know-how

Past excellence

CEEMID
Slovak Music Industry Report

Work Packages

WP1 Economy - CCSI indicators, valuations (IViR, EUBA)
WP2 Diversity - market share of Slovak music in radios, streaming, Listen Local Slovakia (SOZA, Reprex.)
WP3 Music & Society - harmonized data collection where needed
WP4 Innovation - providing policymakers with tools

WP1 Slovak creators, including music creators, should earn as much as the European average. Their income should level up to German and Finnish levels.

WP2 Lithuanian people should find good Lithuanian music in Lithuania on Spotify, YouTube and the radio. Foreign labels must not increase their market share and colonize the local creative ecosystem.

Joining the European Union

Why should creators earn less than other skilled occupations and knowledge workers?
Why should artists get less paid than the average in Slovakia?
Why should Slovaks get paid less than the average European?

Harmonized data collecton

Valuations

Income & empirical comparisons | Setting the Value of Slovak Music

Part II: Indicators

Maria on Eurostat indicator cycle

Maria on Slovak indicator cycle

explain the cylce in Slovakia, with a timline
what will they get by October 2022
waht will they get by October 2023

Maria on Open Policy Analysis

explain what the application of the OPA guidelines will mean to your work
when will you release the information, where, what are the quality/transparency guarrantees

Maria on indicator topics

What kind of indicators are we going to produce
Just brief, like employment, etc.

Maria on stakeholders

To whom we are designing the indicators
When will we ask them for initial needs assessment
For data
For feedback

Maria on example data needs

What sort of raw data we will ask for
Give a few examples

Part III: WP2

Download in English | | Download in Slovak

Is the algorithm cheating? ➡️ trustworthy AI policy, enabling courts, competition and consuerm protection agencies to protect the Lithuanian CCIs
Is the algorithm learning from bad data? ➡️ national heritage policy, consolidate Lithuanian CCI data as linked, open data, and synch it daily with the world.
Can we ask for 20% Lithuanian music in radio, television, YouTube or Spotify?

LaLa Database

Opt-in, opt-out database to make sure that you are in control
Health check of artist data from Wikipedia to YouTube
Make changes that avoid missing payments, recommendations errors.

Listen Local Database

Write-in database that we do not forget about any new or legacy artists, crowdsourcing for fans, journalists, musicians, educators to add artists, bands, ensembles
Minimum requirement one commercially released recording, one published music composition, a Wikipedia page. Other commercially not released artists, or their heirs must explicitly register to LaLa (if they are not public, GDPR applies)

Topics: 
 - European AI regulation and ethics, music AI, 
 - non-discriminiation and fair remuneration for 
 Lithuania's creators.
 - Smart and future proof local content and media 
 regulation, music export, cultural heritage. 

Features: 
 - The policy brief itself expressed as a resource, 
   not a static file that is once finished and downloaded.
 - It is an educational document in itself, it is 
 self-refreshing with data, legal and policy texts
 - We educate policy-makers and music professionals
 to talk, write and think about AI in a smart way.

Invitation for an open collaboration

Click for Contacts: Digital Music Observatory | Listen Local Lithuania | LaLa for Artists | Lala for Fans | Open Policy Analysis

Part IV Questions?

Get in Touch: Daniel - Valuations, Metadata, AI Policy | Ioanna - Fashion & Blockchain | Borbala - Fair competition and fighting dark algorithms | Mark - MXF

Market analysis

Local content regulation & goals

Unpaid revenue rate
Local content regulations for radios
Goal setting on streaming

Avoiding negative outcomes

Trustworthy AI

Data biases

The data about the Lithuanian national cultural output and heritage shoulld be availabe in Lithuania
Should be daily synchronized with the world via the Europena, Dbpedia, MusicBrainz and other open linked data solutions that connect YouTube, Spotify, and other platforms to daily, up-to-date knowledge to train their algorithms.
AI is machine learning

Listen Local Lithuania

open linked data: We aim to sync with AGATA, LATGA, the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, MIC and internationally via the Europeana, Music Brainz and Zenodo with global libraries, music services, and scientic repositories.
open and smart policies: In sync with the the Cultural Ministry of Lithuania, providing a blueprint for film, television, books, newspapers, fashion, architecture, design and other cultural and creative industries.

Dutch AI Coalition Working Group Culture and Media

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 09:30:00 +0000

Reprex is presenting its Digital Music Observatory and Cultural Creative Sectors Industries Data Observatory as platforms for developing and evaluating trustworthy AI in the cultural domains. We hope to find new partners within the NLAIC community to join our open, collaborative projects.

Learn more about the Dutch AI Coalition’s Cultur and Media Working Group (in Dutch:)

OpenMusE | CCSI Data Observatory

Open Data Day in The Hague 2023

Big Data for All - Building Collaborative Data Observatories

The event invitation text and links

In the Q&A, we can discuss many things

Check out our projects

Reprex: the impact startup

Listen Local Nederland

Check out our projects

Music and Creative Industry Indicators from Needs Assessment to Automated Production

Invitation for an open collaboration

Controls

OpenMuse

Presentation outline

Part I: OpenMuse offering

Offering Tools

Offering Methodology

Open Polcy Analysis

Live Policy Documents

Past excellence

Work Packages

Joining the European Union

Harmonized data collecton

Valuations

Read More

Part II: Indicators

Maria on Eurostat indicator cycle

Maria on Slovak indicator cycle

Maria on Open Policy Analysis

Maria on indicator topics

Maria on stakeholders

Maria on example data needs

Part III: WP2

Why They Recommend American Music

LaLa Database

Listen Local Database

Further reading

Invitation for an open collaboration

Part IV Questions?

Market analysis

Local content regulation & goals

Avoiding negative outcomes

Trustworthy AI

Data biases

Listen Local Lithuania

Dutch AI Coalition Working Group Culture and Media