The second Maria de Maeztu Strategic Research Program (CEX2021-001195-M) of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) takes place between 2023 and 2026. The website for this program is under construction. You can find some details in this news.
The first María de Maeztu Strategic Research Program (MDM-2015-0502) took place between January 2016 and June 2020. It was focused on data-driven knowledge extraction, boosting synergistic research initiatives across our different research areas.
Sustainable Freesound
Sustainable Freesound
Because of the nature of Freesound and the philosophy of openness, sharing and reuse that we promote, we think that the sustainability model that best fits our case is one based on user donations, allowing users to contribute to keep Freesound...
The goal of the project is to make Freesound.org sustainable by promoting donations from the users.
Because of the nature of Freesound and the philosophy of openness, sharing and reuse that we promote, we think that the sustainability model that best fits our case is one based on user donations (similarly to Wikipedia). Considering the huge amount of users that regularly download content from Freesound, we estimate that with a very small yearly contribution from some of these users, they can help us keep Freesound in good shape.
With this project we will:
1. Increase the visibility and impact of freesound, as a dataset for research and for use in various professional sectors.
2. We will obtain funding that emphasizes the sustainability of the research around freesound.
3. We will encourage collaborations of the researchers working in freesound with external researchers and professionals.
4. It will help define and develop the computational infrastructure of the DTIC as a Scientific infrastructure that offers services to the outside.
Related Assets
Department of Information and Communication Technologies, UPF
Grant CEX2021-001195-M funded by MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033
Department of Information and Communication Technologies, UPF
- Àngel Lozano - Scientific director
- Aurelio Ruiz - Program management