How We Use The Knowledge You Share

Thanks for your interest in sharing knowledge with us. Before we proceed, let us tell you a little about the WHY and HOW of data at the African Music Library.

The African music Library is a comprehensive repository of African music knowledge. Its content is curated by a team of researchers, creatives, and academics across the continent. Factutal data, including performance metadata and audio files - used for audio analysis - is contributed by supporting Record Labels, Publishers, Distributors, Aggregators, and other key players in the African Music Industry like yourself.

Metadata curated is verified and standadized to comply with the DDEX standards.

Audio data curated is analyzed by machine learning models to yield knowledge such as this and this.

Knowledge curated by the Library is shared publicly.

All clean data and knowledge generated through this process are made availble to industry stakeholders and the public. The goal is to foster faster data exchange for activities like royalty claims and distributions, as well as African music engineering.