Dutch Song Database and Search Engine (Nedelandse Liederenbank)
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Dutch Song Database and Search Engine (Nedelandse Liederenbank)
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The Dutch Song database (Nederlandse Liederenbank) lists 150,000 songs in Dutch and Flemish from the middle ages through the 20th century. It includes love songs, satirical songs, Beggar songs, psalms and other religious songs, folksongs, children's songs, holiday songs, and much else. Among the other searches supported, its melodic search engine is particularly effective.Sources include sources for all these songs are songbooks, songsheets (broadsides), song manuscripts and fieldwork recordings. The Meertens Institute (Amsterdam) compiled the database, which is now maintained by the Centre for Documentation and Research on Dutch Song. The impetus for starting the project came from the Utrecht ensemble Camerata Trajectina, which has now donated its recordings to the website. In 2014 the project was awarded the Dutch Data Prize in Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Dutch Song Database and Search Engine (Nedelandse Liederenbank)
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Provides interfaces for browsing contents
Provides user-friendly interfaces
Shares data in open data formats
Provides user-friendly search interfaces