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CC-Zero-Project

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Background Info

What we do

The CC-Zero-Project is an ambitious project that collects musicological worth protecting analogue and digital sound recordings. Our goal is the free availability of public domain related content like music, sound or voice recordings.

Who we are

The CC-Zero-Project was established in 2020 and is supported from Wikimedia CH. The project is based on the music collection of Carl Flisch, a Swiss musicologist, founder of the Pubic Domain Project.

Currently we have

• 1 full-time employee
• 1 part-time employee

Our Mission

The CC-Zero-Project is continuing the idea behind the Public Domain Project in 2009. Do not waste time and money in the inventory and cataloging. It's a learning by doing concept:

• Inspection of material to digitize that could be in the public domain
• Enter the information from the record inside a database (we are planning our own Wikidata instance)
• Cleaning the record with a RCM (Record Cleaning Machine)
• Selection of the correct equalizer setting of the 78 rpm grammophone record
• Digitization of the record
• Reduce the metadata information fields to a minimum
• Check the copyright status
• Upload the audio file (24-Bit, 192 kHz, FLAC) to Wikimedia Commons good documented with references

The future

In the center of our future activities is the digitization of a large classical music collection. A not-known collector spent decades in his life time to put pieces of musical works together to this great treasure. The collection is inventoried and well documented. Hundreds of works sorted by musical forms from the early baroque to the romantic era.

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Fundraising 2020

• View our budget of 2020. A project of this size cannot be financed by the ongoing budget costs. We rely on donations.