- Wikidata e la ricerca. Condividere esperienze / Wikidata and Research. Sharing Experiences
- Edited by Elena Marangoni, Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo
Integrating Projects Working Around an Open Database of Published Music Recordings: a call for collaboration
- Toni Sant
- © 2026 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-1010-2.23
While Wikipedia’s WikiProject Music offers broad encyclopedic coverage, several initiatives within the Wikimedia ecosystem are advancing the structured representation of music metadata through Wikidata, Wikibase, and related platforms. These include AfroSounds, led by Oreoluwa (User:ReoMartins) in Nigeria since 2022; a Slovak music metadata proposal presented at the 2024 CEE Meeting; and the Malta Music Memory Project, developed by the author with the M3P Foundation since 2009. This article calls for collaboration within the digital humanities and data science to develop an interoperable data model and workflow for music metadata, incorporating automation where appropriate and addressing legal constraints that may require interim staging in Wikibase before integration with Wikidata.
- Keywords:
- digital curation,
- music,
- databases,
- collaboration,
- Wikidata,
University of Salford, United Kingdom - ORCID: 0000-0001-6393-0502
- Sant, Toni. 2009. “Addressing the Need for a Collaborative Multimedia Database of Maltese Music.” Journal of Music, Technology & Education 2 (2-3): 89–96. <10.1386/jmte.2.2-3.89_1>.
- Sant, Toni. 2011. “Initial Work on the Malta Music Memory Project – and Its Connections with Oral History.” Journal of Maltese History 2 (2): 42–50.
- Sant, Toni. 2015. “Creating a Comprehensive Archive of Maltese Music on CD.” In Preserving Popular Music Heritage, edited by Sarah Baker, 114–25. London: Routledge. <10.4324/9781315769882-10>.
Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Integrating Projects Working Around an Open Database of Published Music Recordings: a call for collaboration
Authors
Toni Sant
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1010-2.23
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2026
Copyright Information
© 2026 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Bibliographic Information
Book Title
Wikidata e la ricerca. Condividere esperienze / Wikidata and Research. Sharing Experiences
Book Subtitle
Atti del Convegno, Firenze, 5-6 giugno 2025 / Conference proceedings, Florence, 5-6 June 2025
Editors
Elena Marangoni, Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
378
Publication Year
2026
Copyright Information
© 2026 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1010-2
ISBN Print
979-12-215-1009-6
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-1010-2
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919