White Paper on Music Data & Metadata Policies

Change history

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0.8.0: Internally reviewed version for consultation (2025-10-01)

0.8.1 Minor stylistic changes.

0.8.4: Update of the Open Music Observatory: Building a Shared Music Data Space chapter; bringing it into closer alignment with the technical documentation of the Open Music Observatory (available here.)

0.9.0: Shared with the Copyright Infrastructure Task Force. 10.5281/zenodo.17767905

0.9.1: Update with Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies

0.9.4: CITF Annex

chapters:

• index.qmd: Executive summary

• glossary.qmd: Glossary

• context.qmd: Source file of the Policy Context & Problem Map chapter.

• curation.qmd: Source file of the Data Collection, Improvement & Exchange chapter.

• obsevatory.qmd: Source file of the The Open Music Observatory as a Data Sharing Space chapter.

• conclusions.qmd A placeholder for conclustions.

• references.qmd: A placeholder start printing the bibliographic references.

• license.qmd: This document is licensed under the CC BY 4.0 LEGAL CODE Attribution 4.0 International license. You can use it in your work, but you must give credit to the creators in the following format.\

• citf.qmd: An Annex on alignment with CITF.

Please refer to the the document as:
Antal, D. (2026). Green Paper on AI, Data Governance, and Metadata Policies for Europe’s Music Ecosystem: Practical Steps Towards a Decentralised and Open European Music Observatory (0.9.4). Open Music Observatory. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18094885

Bibliographical references

The bibliographic references are organised by themes, and they are stored in the bib folder. See for example mme.bib.

• bib/aibusiness.bib: bibliography on administrative data sources in statistics.

• bib/administrativedata.bib: bibliography on administrative data sources in statistics.

• bib/BVDA.bib: resources from the Big Data Value Association.

• bib/CISAC.bib: resources related to CISAC and the ISWC system.

• bib/collections.bib: bibliographic entries for theories and conceptualisations of collections.

• bib/eccch.bib: European Cultural Heritage Cloud resources.

• bib/datainteroperability.bib: data interoperability literature.

• bib/datamodels.bib: bibliographic entries for data models.

• bib/decolonisation.bib: Bibliography related to heritage decolonisation and repair.

• bib/eulaw.bib: European legal acts and jurisprudence.

• bib/eupolicies.bib: European policy papers.

• bib/europeana.bib: Europeana resources.

• bib/grd.bib: Global Repertoire Database.

• bib/ISOdata.bib: ISO standards related to (music) data.

• bib/identifiers.bib: Resources on identifiers, PIDs.

• bib/IFPI.bib: resources related to IFPI and the ISRC system.

• bib/ISOData.bib: bibliographic entries for relevant ISO standards.

• bib/metadata.bib: General metadata literature.

• bib/MLC.bib: resources related to the Mechanical Licensing Collective.

• bib/mme.bib: Music Moves Europe policy documents bibliography.

• bib/musicindustry.bib: Music industry typologies, conceptualisations.

• bib/ontologies.bib: bibliography of formal ontologies.

• bib/opa.bib: bibliography on the Open Policy Analysis Guidelines.

• bib/opendata.bib: bibliography on the EU open data policies.

• bib/OpenMusE.bib: bibliographic entries on the Open Music Europe project's documents.

• bib/openmusicobservatory.bib: bibliographic entries on the Open Music Observatory.

• bib/openmusicrepositories.bib: bibliographic entries on the Open Music Europe open policy analysis repositories.

• bib/ossh.bib: open-source software and hardware bibliography.

• bib/privatelyhelddata.bib on the coordination of privately held and government statistical data.

• bib/services.bib future services and service design.

• bib/trustworthyAI.bib on trustworthy AI.

• bib/wikidata.bib bibliography on the use of Wikidata and Wikibase.