Kokkonis, G., Ordoulidis, N., and Dionysopoulos, N. 2024. Historical Discography Management Platform and Crowdsource Practices in Music Archiving. In Garoufallou, E., Sartori, F. (Eds.) Metadata and Semantic Research. MTSR 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science (pp. 220–227), vol 2048. Springer, Cham.

This article explores the ongoing research project, “M.EL.O.S.”, and the development of a music management platform tailored to the project’s objectives. Specifically, the text delves into one of the three collections involved, focusing on Vassilis Tsitsanis’s discography, which is housed at theMusic Documentation Laboratory within the Department ofMusic Studies at the University of Ioannina in Greece. Furthermore, this article highlights a pivotal aspect of the project, exemplifying its open nature: crowdsourcing and the associated methodologies. After presenting the collection’s holdings and connected metadata pertaining to historical discography, the article analyzes the potential categories of contributors from the community that will be engaged in crowdsourcing activities following the platform’s anticipated launch in late 2024.

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