Open Music Observatory
Building an open data sharing space for the European music sector
Daniel Antal, CFA 
Mester, Anna Márta
Open Music Observatory
This document was presented as a planning document in 2023. It has been partly updated till 6 March 2026. Some text is still reflecting the planning phase. You can access all versions on https://zenodo.org/records/16539570. You can check out the observatory before uploading all pillars on https://openmusicobservatory.eu/ and read our Open Music blog on https://openmusic.substack.com/
Disclaimer of Warranties
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe, research and innovation programme, under Grant Agreement No. 101095295. This document has been prepared by Open Music Europe (OpenMusE) project partners as an account of work carried out within the framework of this contract.
Any dissemination of results must indicate that it reflects only the author’s view and that the Commission Agency is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains. Neither Project Coordinator, nor any signatory party of Open Music Europe (OpenMusE) Project Consortium Agreement, nor any person acting on behalf of any of them:
makes any warranty or representation whatsoever, express or implied,
(i). with respect to the use of any information, apparatus, method, process, or similar item disclosed in this document, including merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or
(ii). that such use does not infringe on or interfere with privately owned rights, including any party’s intellectual property, or
(iii). that this document is suitable to any particular user’s circumstance; or
assumes responsibility for any damages or other liability whatsoever (including any consequential damages, even if Project Coordinator or any representative of a signatory party of the Open Music Europe (OpenMusE) Project Consortium Agreement, has been advised of the possibility of such damages) resulting from your selection or use of this document or any information, apparatus, method, process, or similar item disclosed in this document.
For the version history of this document, please refer to our open repository, where the change history can be reviewed with timestamps for every single file used to create the report: https://github.com/dataobservatory-eu/open-music-observatory
This document is accompanied by the A Green Paper on AI, Data Governance, and Metadata Policies for Europe’s Music Ecosystem. Practical Steps Towards a Decentralised and Open European Music Observatory document, which show’s our works data-to-policy alignment. The latest development version of that document can be downloaded from the green paper’s website, and the latest identified version following the OPA protocol can be found on GitHub and on Zenodo.
The temporary landing page of the OMO can be reviewed on https://dataobservatory-eu.github.io/omo-landing-page/.