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  Association with MusicBrainz—an open music encyclopedia

  MusicBrainz [1] is a peer‐reviewed source of music metadata that can be contributed to by anyone. Nearly all data is in the public domain. I think it would be greatly beneficial for entities such as the National Library of Australia’s Trove [2] to integrate with MusicBrainz’s vast data source—Trove could choose to increase their data quality of Australian artists and releases and MusicBrainz could benefit from the already ...more »

  MusicBrainz [1] is a peer‐reviewed source of music metadata that can be contributed to by anyone. Nearly all data is in the public domain.

  I think it would be greatly beneficial for entities such as the National Library of Australia’s Trove [2] to integrate with MusicBrainz’s vast data source—Trove could choose to increase their data quality of Australian artists and releases and MusicBrainz could benefit from the already existing data contributions of Trove’s editors/librarians.

  MusicBrainz has the capability to store very detailed information of musical acts and releases; see the entry on “Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds”, for example [3] and also their Relationships page. [4] They are also the main data source of music metadata for BBC Music. [5]

  Note: Australia is ranked 8th in terms of releases present in the MusicBrainz database at around 15,000. [6]

  [1] http://musicbrainz.org/

  [2] http://trove.nla.gov.au/music/

  [3] http://musicbrainz.org/artist/172e1f1a-504d-4488-b053-6344ba63e6d0

  [4] http://musicbrainz.org/artist/172e1f1a-504d-4488-b053-6344ba63e6d0/relationships

  [5] http://www.bbc.co.uk/music

  [6] http://musicbrainz.org/statistics/countries

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  Cross pollination between established and emerging artists

  More opportunities for mid career artists to work with emerging artists has huge benefits on both sides. For the established artist it is an opportunity to be exposed to fresh ideas and approaches. for the emerging artist it is a way to build networks into the culture and be guided/mentored

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  Greater funding recognition for sound design and sound art

  I humbly suggest that music and arts funding in this country is too strongly focussed around performing arts and music. Whilst some provision exists for contemporary music producers and composers to extend their skills, projects and impacts, it's often limited to 'new music' and contemporary classical/free jazz. In addition, funding bodies and governments should recognise the contribution sound can make to interdisciplinary ...more »

  I humbly suggest that music and arts funding in this country is too strongly focussed around performing arts and music. Whilst some provision exists for contemporary music producers and composers to extend their skills, projects and impacts, it's often limited to 'new music' and contemporary classical/free jazz.

  In addition, funding bodies and governments should recognise the contribution sound can make to interdisciplinary projects. Sound art (or experimental music) and innovative sound design projects (including those produced alongside other media such as text, spoken word, moving images — but in too hefty a component to be covered by the funding available for those artforms alone) should be supported as part of our country's aspirations to tell its own stories, and to tell them with insight and panache.

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  NBN allowing greater connectivity for marginalised art practices

  allowing for connectivity to audiences and practitioners in maginalised practices such as Live Art regionally and internationally

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  Stricter Minimum Local Content on Radio and TV

  Radio and TV Stations can get around current Local Content requirements by playing their local content at any time of day. Stronger requirements should be in place to encourage broadcasting of local content - during breakfast, business hours, drive-time, etc.

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  Stream music and videos online change business model

  Set up Ipod docks in shopping centres with a video screen stream all music and videos on a big screen. The consumer will see what video or song she or he likes.Have a digital printer and cd printer on standby.The consumer decides on the song or video then downloads it to a ipod dock station.The cd or video is also printed and produced while you wait. This creates a new business model everyone is happy and everyone gets ...more »

  Set up Ipod docks in shopping centres with a video screen stream all music and videos on a big screen.

  The consumer will see what video or song she or he likes.Have a digital printer and cd printer on standby.The consumer decides on the song or video then downloads it to a ipod dock station.The cd or video is also printed and produced while you wait.

  This creates a new business model everyone is happy and everyone gets paid.

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  Need to get smarter with illegal downloading

  Charge a fee with your internet subscription to cover illegal downloading to pay artists producers etc for creating all this work that people download.Introduce a levy on blank cd dvds to pay for illegal downloading.

  The benefits, govt gets taxes the artist gets paid.

  No use taking these smart kids to court they are too smart .

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  Establish Legislation similar to the french and uk example

  Digital economy act .To protect ceative digital art online,.All current laws are outdated .The french have new laws .I think the USA has the digital economy act.With the introduction of E books and the very fast broadband everything will change.Every business needs to change with the times otherwise we will be left behind or even worse go out of business.

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  Youth media

  A mentor based youth media organisation, particularly in regional communities, to produce local media (mining coys, gov depts, tourism, etc) using the NBN to interact on productions with other communities. Broadcast on Community TV and NITV

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  Submitted by John McBain 1 year ago

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  Sustainable design gaming

  I would like to see sustainable 3D design software (architecture) amalgamated with gaming to enable collaborative online multiplayer sustainable design

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  Recognition of community arts & cultural devel as core arts

  Recognition of community arts and cultural development as ‘core arts’ - The community arts and cultural development sector has led a range of digital inclusion initiatives that are building participation, pathways into the creative industries, as well as producing vibrant and innovative content and cultural output with international resonance. This needs to be recognised and formally stated in the National Cultural Policy ...more »

  Recognition of community arts and cultural development as ‘core arts’ - The community arts and cultural development sector has led a range of digital inclusion initiatives that are building participation, pathways into the creative industries, as well as producing vibrant and innovative content and cultural output with international resonance. This needs to be recognised and formally stated in the National Cultural Policy – with recognition for the CACD as ‘core arts’, as adopted and recognised by the Australia Council for the Arts in its review of CACD in 2007.

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  Longer-term funding options for arts projects

  Longer-term funding built-in to project support for the arts - The National Cultural Policy articulates the need for the widest possible participation of diverse communities in arts and culture. This requires multi-year funding for communities and community arts and cultural development organisations. Not one year, three year or four year funding. We are talking about funding for over six and ten year periods.

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  Org/program to support devel in community arts & culural devel

  An advocacy organisation or program to support sector development in community-based arts and cultural development - This proposition was developed by the community arts and cultural development sector to undertake capacity building work for long-term impact. This would include long-term work in creating pathways and making use of knowledge that the sector has established, and would also ensure that this work around digital ...more »

  An advocacy organisation or program to support sector development in community-based arts and cultural development - This proposition was developed by the community arts and cultural development sector to undertake capacity building work for long-term impact. This would include long-term work in creating pathways and making use of knowledge that the sector has established, and would also ensure that this work around digital capacity was addressed in the field.

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  Investment in whole-of-government partnerships & programs

  Artists, arts organisations and community organisations are already delivering significantly on the areas outlined in the National Cultural Policy, including in cross-government partnerships and collaboration. The National Cultural Policy needs a mechanism, preferably led from the arts / cultural / community arts + cultural development sector to lead and leverage community partnerships and programs across government. ...more »

  Artists, arts organisations and community organisations are already delivering significantly on the areas outlined in the National Cultural Policy, including in cross-government partnerships and collaboration. The National Cultural Policy needs a mechanism, preferably led from the arts / cultural / community arts + cultural development sector to lead and leverage community partnerships and programs across government.

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  • A dedicated, sector-based cross-artform brokerage agency to be established, with strong expertise and focus in community-based programs and policy, whose role would be to lead and broker partnerships and programs between different layers of government, and support collaboration between the arts and other areas of government policy.

  • A dedicated funding stream to support a group of agencies and organisations who are already doing this well, to scale-up this work, and whose remit would include investing in and supporting other smaller organisations and independent artists to do this more effectively.

  • A a cultural desk in every government department and agency. This is a model that has worked in Africa and was identified through dialogue at the recent Fifth World Summit on Arts and Culture hosted by the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) in Melbourne (3-6 October 2011). It should be supported with comparable support for arts and cultural sector leadership in this area.

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  Establish a Digital Inclusion Initiative for Australia

  Establish a Digital Inclusion Initiative for Australia - The NBN is quite possibly the largest single investment in cultural infrastructure that has ever been known in Australia. However, many sectors of the arts, the creative industries and wider communities are unprepared to take advantage of opportunities, are facing many challenges in relation to technological change, and may be further disadvantaged by digital exclusion ...more »

  Establish a Digital Inclusion Initiative for Australia - The NBN is quite possibly the largest single investment in cultural infrastructure that has ever been known in Australia. However, many sectors of the arts, the creative industries and wider communities are unprepared to take advantage of opportunities, are facing many challenges in relation to technological change, and may be further disadvantaged by digital exclusion if they are left behind. A Digital Inclusion Initiative needs to work alongside the NBN, preferably located within the Dept of Prime Minister and Cabinet – to lead coordination across all levels of government in order to ensure that adequate investment and support is leveraged, that disparate policy areas impacting on digital (and social) inclusion ‘speak’ to eachother, and that targeted support is going where it is needed most. The Digital Inclusion Initiative will be backed by an investment commensurate with the investment in the NBN (based on a percentage for Australian content and capacity) that supports Australian arts and cultural sector and communities to ensure that the benefits of technological change and the digital economy are inclusively distributed. It will coordinate and connect the dots with digital inclusion implications across all other areas of government, from the arts to social inclusion to innovation.The Digital Inclusion Initiative builds on initial experiments (eg the Community Hubs program) to ensure that it addresses wider issues of digital and social inclusion, as well as harnessing the benefits and opportunities of engaging as diverse a cross-section of the population as possible, particularly 1) digital exclusion in areas with high concentrations of CALD communities, socially-excluded, and people with disabilities 2) preparation for digital capacity in areas where the NBN rollout is still further down the track.

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  A Federal version of the Interactive Media Fund

  A Federal version of the Interactive Media Fund (NSW Government) - Only a few days after the Public Sphere live event, the NSW government announced the continuation (and expansion) of the Interactive Media Fund—a move we welcome warmly. The Federal government would be well-placed to consider similar programs to help medium businesses graduate from the ‘indie’ game scene into a commercially-viable top-tier production studio. ...more »

  A Federal version of the Interactive Media Fund (NSW Government) - Only a few days after the Public Sphere live event, the NSW government announced the continuation (and expansion) of the Interactive Media Fund—a move we welcome warmly. The Federal government would be well-placed to consider similar programs to help medium businesses graduate from the ‘indie’ game scene into a commercially-viable top-tier production studio.

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  Support, incentives and promotion for start-up companies

  Support, incentives and promotion for start-up companies - Public policy should stimulate networking and venture capital for hothouse projects rather than be poured into monolithic institutions that squander resources on consultants and management hierarchy. Why not provide low interest government loans for artists and cultural enterprises that mimic the micro-credit schemes enabling self-sufficiency in the developing ...more »

  Support, incentives and promotion for start-up companies - Public policy should stimulate networking and venture capital for hothouse projects rather than be poured into monolithic institutions that squander resources on consultants and management hierarchy. Why not provide low interest government loans for artists and cultural enterprises that mimic the micro-credit schemes enabling self-sufficiency in the developing world? Or government funds could be directed to a much larger number of start-up projects, with extra public money kicking in on a dollar-for-dollar basis as private investors come on board, a version of which occurs with the new Australian film tax concession to be administered by Screen Australia.

  We have entered a new phase of the game development industry in Australia. With the closure of the high-profile studios, there will be a gap in the middle of the industry where graduates of games design courses will have few obvious targets for employment. To develop this middle area of the industry, entrepreneurial knowledge will be required by the developers in order to create start-up companies. These could be supported by government like other small businesses, in order to integrate the new start-ups into the existing industry, such as arranging expos or other opportunities for networking with investors, publishers and potential employees. If the government is supporting a national publisher of interactive media, then that body should actively seek out interested start-ups with new projects, and support them with education and assistance in managing a business. We should not be waiting for the arrival of overseas veterans to start Australian-based studios as was the case with Team Bondi.

  Equally important is the nurturing of talent in public and private media spaces that should be a diverse cottage industry rather than twentieth-century style silos.

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  Establish cloud policy specific to digital GLAM collections

  Rapidly changing cloud computing environment requires associated developments in standards and policy of which PROV has already done a lot of work. A cloud policy specific to digital storage for public/distributed collections is needed. An ‘Arts’ cloud that can ‘talk’ to other data sets/contributors is needed i.e. federated and replicated to all states and territories (rigorous backup protection default).

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  Establish national framework for GLAM best practise

  Establish national framework for best practise - Need to set up a National Framework for best practice digital culture that can support baseline development in a rapidly changing application environment.

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  Establish an open cultural heritage platform to launch content

  There is need of an open platform to launch content, eg Digital NZ

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  Collaborate to identify new approaches to current issues

  Identify current issues which can be described through collections & partner with creative communities to create new content. Work with creative communities to explore new approaches to current issues. Use collections to illustrate this endeavour. Take the Australian Museum's Climate Change as an example. In many ways, this is a curated public discussion around current issues. How could this be broadened to create new ...more »

  Identify current issues which can be described through collections & partner with creative communities to create new content. Work with creative communities to explore new approaches to current issues. Use collections to illustrate this endeavour. Take the Australian Museum's Climate Change as an example. In many ways, this is a curated public discussion around current issues. How could this be broadened to create new products, services or processes? There is a vested interest in innovation from both parties so how could the museum act as a laboratory for testing new ideas? Some may ask why you would use a GLAM as a laboratory. I don't think there would be many people in the sector who would suggest that GLAMs aren't research institutions. The best research institutions pose hypotheses, test these hypotheses and create new knowledge. This new knowledge can contribute to three broad areas: the discipline itself, professional practices, broader discourses. Is this type of research currently happening in the sector? I would suggest that it does, in some areas but is rarely aimed at new products, services or practices. Could we test new partnerships by co-creating specific content in a structured and strategic way?

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  A consistent approach to copyright across cultural institutions

  This would help in the sharing of information but also mitigate risk of out of copyright works. Perhaps a "copyright hotline"?

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  Cross portfolio approach to cultural policy

  For cultural policies to have any impact/effect there must be a cross portfolio approach to funding strategies/initiatives where there are clear cultural benefits. Many arts based initiatives will delvier benefits in terms of Educaiton, Health, Indigenous, Regional,Trade and Communications portfolios. Accordingly, there needs to be an effective mechanism/process in bringing such initiatives to the wider government table. ...more »

  For cultural policies to have any impact/effect there must be a cross portfolio approach to funding strategies/initiatives where there are clear cultural benefits. Many arts based initiatives will delvier benefits in terms of Educaiton, Health, Indigenous, Regional,Trade and Communications portfolios. Accordingly, there needs to be an effective mechanism/process in bringing such initiatives to the wider government table.

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  Measure openness of online collections - stds, metadata, (c)

  Measure openness of collection metadata: what percentage of collection metadata is available in open, machine-readable formats. This could be measured against the five star deployment scheme for Linked Open Data and the 4 star classification-scheme for linked open cultural metadata developed at the LOD-LAM (Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums) summit recently.

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  Measure collections accessibility: online, languages, disability

  Measure accessibility of collections: measure the accessibility online but also across different languages, disability requirements, low bandwidth, etc.

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