Introduction

Big data creates inequalities, because only the world’s biggest global corporations, best endowed universities and strongest governments can maintain long, well-designed, global data collection programs.

This handbook is made for people working together in an open collaboration on the Digital Music Observatory and its funded projects, Listen Local Lithuania, Eviota, SurveyHarmonies and Open Music Europe; the connecting Open Collection Network and the CCSI Data Observatory and Green Deal Data Observatory.