Open Science for Arts, Design and Music/Guidelines/Open Research Work Cycle/Access

ACCESS: find open data

This section answers the question:

• Where do I look for open-access and free resources?

The aims of open science is to facilitate access to scientific content and encourage its reuse. Open data are data that, thanks to their author and/or publisher, are freely accessible, exploitable, editable and shared by anyone for any purpose as long as conditions set by the right-holder are respected. Open data include data licensed under an open license or in public domain.

Find open content in open repositories

Open repositories Open-access and free resources can be found in open repositories. Repositories of research data https://dh-ch.openaire.eu/ (a discovery environment, bringing together content from different repositories from across Europe) https://textgrid.de/en/digitale-bibliothek https://www.dasch.swiss/ Repositories of art Repositories for art works (in general) https://www.europeana.eu/en https://www.archivesportaleurope.net/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM https://www.worldcat.org/ http://viaf.org/ https://www.dri.ie/ https://www.programmableweb.com/news/top-10-apis-museums/brief/2020/12/26 http://miriamposner.com/classes/dh201w19/final-project/datasets/ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/research/collection-catalogues https://www.nga.gov/open-access-images.html https://gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/en/ See a full list of music-related repositories here: https://www.re3data.org/search?query=art (the search results can be further refined to countries and repository features) Repositories for images https://piprod.getty.edu/starweb/pi/servlet.starweb?path=pi/pi.web http://pharosartresearch.org/ https://www.getty.edu/about/whatwedo/opencontent.html https://www.publicartarchive.org/ See a full list of music-related repositories here: https://www.re3data.org/search?query=image (the search results can be further refined to countries and repository features) Repositories of music Catalogs (collections of databases): The MusoW database brings together openly available music and musicology resources from across the Internet. It serves as a catalogue of databases. You can browse it along different search criteria here: https://projects.dharc.unibo.it/musow/records You can use the Audio, Video search of the ProQuest database See a full list of music-related research data repositories here_ https://www.re3data.org/search?query=music (the search results can be further refined to countries and repository features) Databases, collections (a small selection of MusoW resources): List of Public Domain Music MusOpen ChoralWiki Early Music Online Open-upon-request music resources from proprietary providers Deezer (API) Spotify data-sets