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What MIMO will do

The aim of the MIMO project is to create a single access point to digital content and information on the collections of musical instruments held in European museums.

At present, there is no central resource for anyone wishing to explore these collections online, nor is there any common standard for the online presentation of musical instruments: this project seeks to address that problem.

The MIMO project will enable the digital content of eleven major musical instrument museums from across Europe to be harvested from their collection databases and made available to all through Europeana.

This will include: -

• 45,000 images of instruments, with metadata, thus making available 40% of Europe's and 16% of the world's heritage of historic musical instruments in public possession
• 1800 digital audio files giving an impression of the instruments' sound
• 300 video clips

The project will also improve multilingual access to such content through the delivery of dictionaries for controlled vocabularies for musical instruments databases. This will ensure consistency of classification for the musical instruments in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and Swedish.

Duration

The project will run from 1st September 2009 until 31st August 2011.

Project Partners

• University of Edinburgh, (coordinator)
• Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg
• Museum für Musikinstrumente der Universität Leipzig
• Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika, Tervuren
• Associazione "Amici del Museo degli Strumenti Musicali", Firenze
• Cité de la musique, Paris
• Muziekinstrumentenmuseum, Brussel
• Università degli Studi di Firenze
• Horniman Museum, London
• Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
• Musikmuseet, Stockholm

Contact and further information

Norman Rodger
MIMO Project Manager
University of Edinburgh
+ 44 131 650 6823

norman.rodger AT ed.ac.uk

www.mimo-project.eu

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