Libraries are still an excellent resource for physical media, whether it be books, audio CDs, DVDs, or other content types. One thing libraries still haven't figured out how to consistently make ...

Just before Christmas pirate activist group Anna’s Archive announced it had hacked Spotify and grabbed 86 million music files which it planned to make available in ‘bulk torrents’. Unsurprisingly, the ...

Earlier this month, the Albina Music Trust launched a digital archive containing thousands of photographs, audio recordings and film and video clips documenting the culture and history of the Albina ...

WFMU has been running the Free Music Archive since 2009, a treasure trove of free, legal downloads from every imaginable genre. Running a not-for-profit organization is tough in any case, add to that ...

Brooke Knoll is the digital audience specialist and afternoon host for Classical KC. You can reach her at [email protected].

Traditionally, digital collections of musical metadata, i.e., information about musical works – such as library catalogues or thematic catalogues are based on relational databases. Digital archives of ...