Archives sonores du CNRS-Musée de l'Homme

The CNRS Research Center for Ethnomusicology (CREM, http://crem-cnrs.fr), the Laboratory of Musical Acoustics (LAM, http://www.lam.jussieu.fr) have been working together since 2007 to design an innovative, collaborative and interdisciplinary tool specially adapted for use by small research teams. The mission of this project is twofold: to meet the specific needs of sound archives, and also to meet the demands of the research field, which often requires many specific skills and kinds of information (multimedia and information technologies, analytical tools, local contextual knowledge, ethnomusicological perspective, etc.). The main purpose is to provide an easy and efficient indexing of sound files. A web platform is also a way to cross borders, to get local populations involved in working on their own cultural heritage and to offer resources to anthropologists and ethnomusicologists around the world.