Discovering Music Archives (DISMARC)

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Discovering Music Archives (DISMARC) is a project that is jointly administered by German broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) and Angewandte Informationstechnik Forschungsgesellschaft mbH (AIT). The main objective of the DISMARC project is to support the discovery and dissemination of knowledge and information within the E.U.

The website has music collections from various countries from Africa and other continents. Some of the artists Africa whose music feature in the collection include Emmanuel Padmore, Ayité Ayivi, Jovino Dos Santos, Joe Viera and many others.

As a one-stop audio aggregation platform, DISMARC's attributes are unique, and are free to all users and content owners. As well as music, DISMARC also aggregates music-related items; videos, photographs, books, documents and manuscripts are all part of Europe's cultural heritage. The aim of DISMARC is to bring together the resources of European music archives in one database.

DISMARC reveals large amounts of under-exposed European cultural, scientific and scholarly music audio. Content providers, archives, broadcasters, museums, universities, research institutes, private collectors can open up their collections to the wider world. The website presents invaluable, European-owned, culturally-significant, original music audio and music-related material from the early 20th century until today. Audio is searchable, discoverable and, where the content owner provides access to audio, listenable.

DISMARC offers a solution to a problem inherited from an earlier, analogue age. Thematic searching in Europe’s catalogues needs separate ‘visits’ to each archive. It also collects metadata from participating archives, maps it to DISMARC, Europeana-compliant protocol, and stores it securely. By browsing DISMARC, users are able to search all participating archives and collections simultaneously.

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Profile added by Ano Shumba on 08 Oct 2015
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