Try out Europeana - Multimedia Portal for Images, Audio, Video, Books ...

http://www.europeana.eu/portal/

Europeana is best described as a multimedia gateway or portal to all sorts of European digital collections.  You can look for images, music, video, books and more, all digitised and uploaded from different libraries, museums and other initiatives.

Folk music, photography, recording technology and first world war archival material are just a few of the subjects covered.  There's a lot about field recording Irish traditional music, and the Irish Traditional Music Archive.

Test Phase Music Channel - Feedback requested!

Right now there's an experimental portal for music, and Europeana wants feedback.  So make yourself a coffee, and do spend a few minutes exploring.  Your feedback is encouraged and welcomed.  Anyone can respond, with institutional comments particularly welcome, so if you lead a course or department, please do make the most of this pilot phase.

• http://test.europeana.eu/portal/channels/music

How old do you think this Recording is? (World's Oldest Mozart Recording)

Europeana Sounds offers some unique archival moments.  We heard today about this, possibly the earliest ever recording of a Mozart aria.  Listen here!

• http://www.europeanasounds.eu/ (homepage)

(Our thanks to IAML, the International Association of Music Libraries), for this intriguing link, posted on their weekly news website.)

We are the Whittaker Library at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.  IAML is our professional association.

British Library Advertising for Project Team Staff

This is a message that has been circulated to music librarians.  'Whittaker' is sharing it more widely:-

EUROPEANA SOUNDS 

Project staff required at British Library for Europeana Sounds

 

Europeana Sounds is a new EC-funded project, to run from 2014-2017, which will greatly improve the discovery of and access to Europe’s rich digital sound and music collections, by enriching metadata and by doubling the number of sounds and audio-related digital items on the Europeana web portal.

 

The project will build a sustainable best practice network including the 24 funded project partner institutions from 12 EU member states.

 

The British Library is recruiting three staff for its London offices to manage the project:

 

1. Project Manager (full time)

2. Metadata Manager (full time)

3. Project Support Officer (part-time)

 

Please see

https://gs10.globalsuccessor.com/fe/tpl_britishlibrary01.asp for details and online application forms