The goal of the European project MusicBricks is to facilitate the transfer of new musical technologies from major European research centers specialized in the domain to small digital creation companies. The project involves the creation of programming interfaces, of graphic and tangible user interfaces, the development of an ecosystem based on events during Music Tech Fest and in selected technology incubators to prepare access to the market.

Europeana Sounds creates a much-needed gateway to EuropeÓ³ incomparably rich sound and music collections. Many of EuropeÓ³ leading cultural heritage institutions have large, high quality audio collections which have great value for a wide range of general and professional audiences, but access to them is fragmented and constrained. So while audio is one of the most popular media types available through Europeana (equally true of the Web as a whole), it represents just 2% of Europeana overall. This project will bring together for the first time major European audio collections and specialist technologists to solve the problem.

The LifeCLEF lab proposes to evaluate these challenges in the continuity of the image-based plant identification task that was run within ImageCLEF lab during the last three years with an increasing number of participants. It will however radically enlarge the evaluated challenge towards multimodal data by (i) considering birds and fish in addition to plants (ii) considering audio and video contents in addition to images (iii) scaling-up the evaluation data to hundreds of thousands of life media records and thousands of living species.

The SCAPE project (Integrated Project (FP7)) will enhance the state of the art of digital preservation in three ways: by developing infrastructure and tools for scalable preservation actions; by providing a framework for automated, quality-assured preservation workflows and by integrating these components with a policy-based preservation planning and watch system.

CHORUS+ objective is to coordinate national and international projects and initiatives in the Search-engine domain and to extend this Coordination in non-European countries.

The Clubmixer Framework is a client-server based audio framework focused on rapid prototyping and experimenting. The open-source framework especially contributes to the development of content-based querying and retrieval, collaborative filtering, music recommendation, playlist generation and music summarization.