Measuring and Monitoring Music, Society and Citizenship Data with Open Source Technology and Data Sharing Witin the Digital Music Observatory

The Feasibility study for the establishment of a European Music Observatory (in short: EMO Feasibility Study)  has identified four critical data gaps related to the diversity and circulation of European music. This is a key business planning and policy problem, and of course, a serious shortcoming for better music research in the Europe.
The identified data gaps of the EMO Feasibility Study . This document has three parts:
I. Task list  
1.    Methodology Issues
II.    Filling the Data Gaps  
1.    Training schemes for music professionals;
2.    Training schemes for artists; 2. Music education; 4. EU consumers and music; 5. Social networks and music
3.    Consumer patterns regarding piracy and its impact on the music sector; 7. Scope of the not-for-profit sector in Europe; 8. Social impact of music in communities  
Furthermore, since the EMO Feasiblity Study was published the sustainability of the music industry became an important issues. Therefore, we modify the definition of 8. Social impact of music in communities to Environmental, social, and governance impacts of music in communities
Existing data sources 1. Music schools and conservatories 2. Music education 3. Consumer patterns regarding piracy and its impact on the music sector
II.    The Diversity & Circulation Pillar of the Digital Music Observatory
1.    From CEEMID to the Digital Music Observatory This can be used in excellence / Objectives and WP Implementation.
2.    Cultural and Music Policy Relevance This can be used as state-of the art in Objectives.
3.    Open Collaboration, Open Policy Analysis, and Open Data   This overlaps with our general WP Implementation.
III.    References

The EMO Feasibility Study defines the general Music, Society and Citizenship Pillar of the future European Music Observatory that it “…has a wide outlook in that it consists of measuring the interactions between individuals and music, from learning to play music to consumer behaviour with regards to music, such as listening habits, live event attendance etc. Many of these questions will find answers via surveys that can be commissioned by a European Music Observatory and through reports on specific topics.”
The Digital Music Observatory (formerly CEEMID) has been conducting such harmonized surveys, and developed methodologies and open source software to recycle pan-European survyes commissioned by the European Commission or the national statistical offices.