Imagine if every small music business had a high-tech crystal ball to see exactly how much money their music is making across Europe. Instead of guessing or paying for expensive consultants, they can use a free digital toolkit to track their value and environmental impact. It's like giving a local indie label the same data power as a global streaming giant.
Music MSMEs lack the data science expertise and budget to track their true economic value and sustainability metrics. This leads to unfair compensation and inefficient business models.
The Open Music Observatory (OMO), an automated open-source platform that integrates official statistics, survey data, and streaming samples into living policy documents.
If you are an independent label dealing with unfair payment gaps or hidden revenue, this project developed an open-source software ecosystem that helps you model volume and value. This allows you to create better business models and identify where professionals are compensated unfairly.
If you are a streaming service dealing with demands for algorithmic transparency, this project developed tools to make music recommendation algorithms more understandable and accountable. This ensures your data usage remains fair and transparent for users and artists.
If you are a consulting firm dealing with the high cost of sustainability audits for small arts clients, this project developed tools to generate environmental, social, and governance reports. This allows clients to produce these reports at a fraction of current costs.
The project focuses on open-source software and open data, meaning the tools are designed to be used freely by any music industry member.
Yes, the project involves 15 partners across 11 countries, including Ukraine, to ensure the data-to-policy pipeline is scalable for European music ecosystems.
The project is grounded in open science and open-source software development, meaning the tools are intended for free use and contribution.
It provides a pipeline for evidence-based policymaking and generates sustainability reports that align with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards.
The project period runs from 2023-01-01 to 2025-12-31, with tools being validated through four pilot studies during this lifespan.
The consortium is heavily weighted toward practical application, with a 40% industry ratio comprising 6 industry partners and 5 SMEs. This mix of 15 partners from 11 countries suggests a strong focus on cross-border commercial viability rather than pure academic research, as only 4 universities are involved.
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