Finno-Ugric Data Sharing Space
We would like to present the concept and a demo of a Finno-Ugric Data Sharing Space as a knowledge base and a trustworthy AI application, and a replication of our Slovak Comprehensive Music Database[1] created with a data sharing space in 2020-2024 . Our application follows the novel AI and data regulatory requirements and recommendations [2], particularly human-in-control and human-in-the-loop procedures, with a particular emphasis on community stewardship and control.
Our work in Slovakia aims to prototype work for a future European Music Observatory [3]. It is a significant extension of the similar work of a best practice presented on DHNB 2023[4]. We extend the legal, organisational and semantic interoperability towards privately owned music streaming platforms, music businesses and NGOs[5]. For the first time we connected a national copyright registry (Slovak Performing and Mechanical Rights Society) parallel to the authority control of a national library. We included the Wikimedia Slovensko, a custodian of the community-edited Slovak Wikipedia to our data sharing institutions. Our approach is a significant step forward, because in the music, audiovisual, or fashion domains the private sector owns more data and digital assets than the GLAM sector.
Our work is based on a mature, long-term data science research program; the creation of scientifically reviewed open-source software libraries, and their applications in the cross-section of social sciences and digital humanities research. We want to show that we can break down data silo barriers among different institutions’ data as well as with our conceptualisation, replication and federation practices, barriers to new geographical coverage areas, further scientific disciplines, and the tacit knowledge of smaller subcultural and minority communities.
We would like to present a small scale dataspace as an interoperable, interdisciplinary, and area-relevant explicit knowledge base and trustworthy AI that poster viewers can try out. To show the versatility of our cross-domain conceptualisation, we will connect songs about “Dreams” with potential locations, performances, choreographies and festive dress from various ethnic groups of the Baltics area.
Our novel research has already made inroads into this area:
In our work within Collecting, Evaluating, and Connecting Data for Dress History [6], we added information on tangible, music-relevant heritage connected to the music; we are also experimenting with the conceptualisation and extension to the intangible heritage aspect of folk dance choreography.
We want to show that our mature knowledge base concerning Slovak music can be federated with area-specific ethnomusicological knowledge from the Latvian Folk Archive, and through the recent community curated collections on the living music tradition of Finno-Ugric minorities.
We are committed to ensuring that our data sharing space is not only accessible in Estonian, Latvian, Hungarian, and English, but also to some extent in Livonian, and other minority languages.
Following on the bad example of the Livonian and Mari Wikipedia incubators, we want to show how the open knowledge technology of Wikibase (the software behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other open knowledge projects) can be used in a better way with higher data governance and community stewardship.
References
Antal, Dániel. 2020. ‘Feasibility Study on Promoting Slovak Music in Slovakia & Abroad’. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6427514.
Antal, Dániel, Michal Grochal, and Christos Varvantakis. 2024. ‘Building a Music Data Sharing Space with Wikibase’. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8046977.
EBU, and Gaia-X. 2022. ‘Dataspace for Cultural and Creative Industries. Position Paper. v.2.0’. Gaia-X. https://gaia-x.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EBU_position-paper_Media-Data-Space.pdf.
European Commission, Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, M Clarke, P Vroonhof, J Snijders, A Le Gall, B Jacquemet, et al. 2020. Feasibility Study for the Establishment of a European Music Observatory : Final Report. Publications Office. https://doi.org/doi/10.2766/9691.
Fagerving, Alicia. 2023. ‘Wikidata for Authority Control: Sharing Museum Knowledge with the World’. Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications 5 (1): 222–39. https://doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.10665.
Open Music Europe. 2023. ‘Open Music Europe (OpenMusE) – An Open, Scalable, Data-to-Policy Pipeline for European Music Ecosystems’. https://doi.org/10.3030/101095295.
Pigozne, Ieva, and Dániel Antal. 2024. ‘Linked Open Datasets on Garments from the Latgale Region’. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13971707.
[1] Antal (2020)
[2] EBU and Gaia-X (2022)
[3] Our work in Slovakia is funded by the Open Music Europe Horizon Europe project Open Music Europe (2023) and aim to fulfil the requirements set in European Commission et al. (2020).
[4] Fagerving (2023)
[5] Antal, Grochal, and Varvantakis (2024)
[6] Pigozne and Antal (2024)
