Open Music Europe (OpenMusE) brings together music industry stakeholders and researchers from 10 EU countries and Ukraine. Our goal is to support the European music industry in becoming:
- More competitive: we develop more accurate ways to transparently measure the value of musical goods, as well as the value added by music to the European economy.
- Fairer: we identify instances in which music industry professionals are compensated fairly or unfairly, and call out cases of negative bias and discrimination based on gender, nationality, or other differences in identity.- More sustainable: we offer tools that small enterprises and civil society organisations can use to measure their environmental, social, and governance sustainability.
- More transparent: we ensure that the way big data is used in the sector – and the way algorithms recommend music – remain understandable, accountable, and fair.
We work with – and produce – open data, open-source software, and open policy analysis. This means that any music industry stakeholder, no matter how large or small, can use our tools freely and contribute to their further development. Our tools will enable music MSMEs and CSOs without data science expertise to access and analyse open data; model volume and value; create better business models; and generate environmental, social, and governance sustainability reports at a fraction of current costs. All tools are validated in four pilot studies.
Our key objectives are to:
- MAP the policy and data landscape: identify extant and potential data sources within EU policy contexts, develop novel data collection methods and tools, and propose policy-relevant indicators that capture the significance of the data at hand.
- BRIDGE data gaps: pioneer new methods and tools for data collection from multiple sources, and integrate these into an open-source software ecosystem that non-specialists can use.
- EMPOWER stakeholders and policymakers to take data-driven actions: validate the utility of the data collected, conduct pilot projects, and co-create scalable and transferable business models and policy guidelines through multi-stakeholder engagement.
