Europeana Radio

Interactive platform Europeana Radio opens up access to Europe's sound treasures Launched by Europeana Sounds and the Europeana Foundation, the Europeana Radio marks the beginning of easy and interactive access to Europe's sound treasures , where listeners are free to browse, listen and tag. Almost 200,000 tracks collected from sound archives across Europe are now available on Europeana Radio. On this brand new application, listeners can browse a wide range of sound recordings (Classical, Folk, and Popular music), play them on random mode, and even tag the musical genres recognised. Indeed all users can become archivists by tagging the musical genres of the recordings whilst listening to them. This tagging feature was thought as an opportunity to increase the discoverability of Institutions' content in Europeana, and perhaps encourage more new partners to get involved. Europeana Radio builds on three years of work aggregating audio content from cultural institutions across Europe, improving their access by enriching descriptions and developing themed sound channels, led by the Europeana Sounds project. As a result more than one million recordings - previously sitting hidden in individual institutions, only available to their respective audiences - are now available on Europeana.eu and the musical archives are gathered under the thematic portal Europeana Music.