Europa Discographia
The Europa Discographia initiative was established under the Early Recordings Association (ERA) to build a collaborative digital ecosystem for Europe’s recorded sound heritage. It brings together universities, archives, research centres, and cultural institutions to interconnect Europe’s fragmented discographic catalogues, each built on distinct tools and data models, and to foster multilingual, cross-border research.
About us
The group’s mission is to create a sustainable, scholar-led digital infrastructure that ensures the transparent documentation, interoperability, and preservation of historical sound recordings. Using open-source technologies, it supports metadata harmonisation, ethical data sharing, and the integration of advanced tools for AI-assisted discovery and analysis.
Formed after the ERA 2025 conference, Europa Discographia serves as a framework for interdisciplinary collaboration, innovation, and training in historical discography and sound heritage studies.
| Country | Institution | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Austria | Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences | Kerstin Klenke |
| 2 | The Society for Historical Sound Recordings (GHT) | Claus Peter Gallenmiller | |
| 3 | Belgium | Musical Instruments Museum of Brussels (MIM) | Fañch Thoraval, Matthieu Thonon |
| 4 | Croatia | Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research | Naila Ceribasic, Jelka Vukobratović |
| 5 | Czechia | National Museum in Czechia | Filip Šír |
| 6 | Germany | Bern University of the Arts; Global Piano Roll Meetings | Sebastian Bausch |
| 7 | Greece | Music Documentation Laboratory, University of Ioannina | George Kokkonis |
| 8 | Kounadis Archive Virtual Museum | Leonardos Kounadis | |
| 9 | AltSol | Nikos Papazis | |
| 10 | Hungary | Institute for Musicology, HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities | Ferenc János Szabó |
| 11 | Italy | Italian Society for the Study of Historical Sound Recordings (SOFOS) | Angelo Pompilio, Cristina Paulon |
| 12 | Norway | Norweigan Academy of Music | Tore Simonsen |
| 13 | Portugal | National Sound Archive | Pedro Félix |
| 14 | Serbia | Institute of Musicology SASA | Jelena Jovanović, Marija Dumnić Vilotijević, Marija Maglov, Danka Lajić Mihajlović |
| 15 | Spain | International University of Valencia | Maria Lourdes Rebollo |
| 16 | UK | The City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society | Jonathan Emeruwa |
| 17 | King's College London Music Archives | Andrew Hallifax | |
| 18 | Early Recordings Association (ERA), University of Surrey | Inja Stanovic, Nikos Ordoulidis |