December encourages us to look back and sum up the past year. It allows us to take a step back and look at our more or less important achievements. The Polish Music Library team has also made such a summary.
That’s it in a nutshell :) But let’s look at the details.
2024 turned out to be an exceptional year for us. Despite completing digitisation projects and only having to maintain them, we achieved record results in monitored statistics.
Audience
From January to December 2024, the Polish Music Library portal was visited by over 80,000 users from all over the world – over the last twelve months, we recorded the activity of interested recipients from 117 countries. The greatest traffic is observed in Poland, Germany and the United States, but the top ten on the user activity map also includes Hong Kong, Italy, Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Japan.
For comparison, we will refer to the number of recipients from last year, i.e. 28,000. As you can see, the increase in interest in resources available on PBM is impressive!
Engagement
The measure of interest in musical and iconographic materials and entries of the Online Music Encyclopaedia available in the Polish Music Library is the number of views of these works on the website. The total number of downloads and views of works containing public sector information available as part of digitisation projects was 1,704,502.
In the previous year, this number was 514,889. You have tripled this result. Thank you!
Resources
One of the tasks carried out as part of maintaining digitisation projects was to supply the Polish Music Library portal with further content and digital resources resulting from the digitisation process.
Among other things, the complex process of digitisation of the PWM Music Encyclopaedia entries was continued as part of the task, which involves the substantive development of the resource, i.e. verification, supplementation and updating of entries, and their publication in connection with other content available on the website. We also translated selected encyclopaedia entries and made their English translation available on the portal to improve the accessibility of information among foreign-language users. The observation of the clickability of entries translated into English shows that this is a crucial task that meets the real needs of recipients from all over the world.
In addition to biographies, music and iconography collections were also published. In 2024, Ikonoteka [Pictures section] was mainly supplemented with city views, allowing recipients to travel to cities such as Amsterdam, Vilnius, Rome, Naples, Paris, Marseille, London, New York, but also Warsaw, Poznań, Toruń, as well as illustrations and photographs of musical instruments – clavichord, maracas, violins, castanets and many, many others. The music collections were enriched with further scores of works by mainly Polish composers, including Paweł Łukaszewski, Wojciech Kilar, Agata Zubel, but also Niccolò Paganini, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and others. A novelty on the PBM portal are works from the Brass Band Library series.
New Year’s Wishes
Enough about the past. It’s time to focus on what awaits us.
Dear Users, we wish you that the year 2025 will be marked by prosperity and satisfaction with the goals achieved. That every day will bring small pleasures that will put a smile on your face so that in twelve months, when writing another summary, you will be able to say, “It was a good year!”.
We also wish ourselves perseverance and commitment to the tasks we carry out together. The year 2025 will prepare new challenges for us. Stay with us – let’s create a digital world of culture together.
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