ContentTier 2-4: Audio type

Content Tier 2 (Europeana as a showcase)

If you want to enable Europeana to use your audio material as part of thematic collections and make it more accessible on the Europeana website then the audio needs to be embeddable (any oEmbed compliant player is supported by Europeana), or you need to provide at least a direct link to an audio file in a format that can be played directly by modern browsers and supported in HTML5. The quality of the audio file should be as high as possible; in other words, as close as possible to the digital source file encoded in a lossless file format. Audio files that meet these requirements will be accessible directly on the thematic collection pages as embedded audio files. 

Content Tier 3 (Europeana as a distribution platform for non-commercial reuse)

If you want to make use of Europeana as a distribution platform that enables the use of your audio files by private individuals, educators and researchers then, in addition to the criteria described for Tier 2 above, you also need to make sure that the audio file comes with one of the seven rights statements that allow reuse:

• 4 Creative Commons licences: CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-NC-ND

• 3 RightsStatements.org's statements: NoC-NC, NoC-OKLR, InC-EDU 

Content Tier 4 (Europeana as a free reuse platform)

If you want to make use of Europeana as a platform that enables the free reuse of your audio files elsewhere then, in addition to the criteria described for Tiers 2 and 3 above, you also need to make sure that the audio file comes with a rights statement that allows free reuse (CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC0 or PDM).

Overview of Content tier 2-4 requirements for audio files

For display purposes the edm:object value can be used to represent an illustrative image for the audio type records. Example here and here.

*A sound resource is available=true if one of the edm:WebResource associated via edm:isShownBy or edm:hasView exists AND technical metadata (ie. ebucore:hasMimetype filled) is extracted from that media resource

**Embeddable media as edm:isShownBy - list of URLs validated for embedding

The * wildcard means that it can match any text within that section of the URL. Also note that anything after the end of the URL pattern is acceptable.

• SoundCould

  http://soundcloud.com/*
  https://soundcloud.com/*

• Vimeo

  https://vimeo.com/*
  https://vimeo.com/album/*/video/*
  https://vimeo.com/channels/*/*
  https://vimeo.com/groups/*/videos/*
  https://vimeo.com/ondemand/*/*
  https://player.vimeo.com/video/*
  http://vimeo.com/*
  http://vimeo.com/album/*/video/v
  http://vimeo.com/channels/*/*
  http://vimeo.com/groups/*/videos/*
  http://vimeo.com/ondemand/*/*
  http://player.vimeo.com/video/*

• YouTube

  https://youtube.com/watch*
  https://youtube.com/v/*
  https://www.youtube.com/watch*
  https://www.youtube.com/v/*
  https://youtu.be/*

• Dismarc

  http://www.dismarc.org/player/*
  http://eusounds.ait.co.at/player/*

• Europeana

  http://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/archives/items/*/*
  http://www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/programa/titol/video/*/*
  http://www.ina.fr/video/*
  http://www.ina.fr/*/video/*
  http://api.picturepipe.net/api/html/widgets/public/playout_cloudfront?token=*
  https://api.picturepipe.net/api/html/widgets/public/playout_cloudfront?token=*
  http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers/issue/fullscreen/*

• BritishLibrary

  http://sounds.bl.uk/embed/*

• EUScreen

  http://www.euscreen.eu/item.html*

***Rights: Important note on your willingness to open up for reuse relevant for contentTier:3 and contentTier:4

Because copyright restrictions often prevent the public from using, sharing, and creatively engaging with digital collections, we encourage data providers to use rights statements that allow reuse where possible.

Stimulating reuse is at the core of the Europeana Publishing Framework:

The framework introduces four tiers of criteria for content by taking into account not just the quality of the content (e.g. resolution of photos of an object), but also the selected rights statement. The greater openness of the content you allow, the higher content tier can the provided object achieve, meaning it can benefit audiences in a more significant way, as we outline here.

Only content of the highest quality that can be freely reused or reused to some degree can reach the highest content tiers (i.e. content tier 3 and 4).

If the content quality is too low to reach content tiers 3 or 4, the rights statement is not taken into account by the algorithm that calculates content tiers, meaning that you can use any of the available rights statements supported by Europeana, as the chosen rights statement will not play a role.

Content tier 3	Content tier 4
Only rights statements that allow some reuse:	Only rights statements that allow free reuse: Before selecting one of the rights statements we list in this table, make sure that the work is in the Public Domain, that you hold the rights, or that you have the rights holders' permission

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