As part of our ongoing commitment to bridging the digital divide for older artists, we are proud to release a new case study developed during the Erasmus+ project Empowering Digital Transformations for Senior Musicians (Project No. 2023-1-BG01-KA210-ADU-000152921), co-funded by the European Union.
This case study explores how current metadata standards in digital music distribution can inadvertently exclude vulnerable languages like Romani. Based on hands-on training activities conducted in Sofia (April 2025), the findings highlight how senior musicians encountered systemic limitations when uploading songs in Romani—discovering that the language was not supported by major aggregators or platform algorithms.
More than a technical exercise, this became an opportunity to reflect on the need for inclusive metadata and to advocate for digital systems that represent Europe’s cultural and linguistic diversity. The publication also demonstrates the power of adult education to reveal such structural gaps and to transform them into actionable knowledge for policy and platform reform.
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Published on 22/04/2025 as part of Small-scale Partnership under KA2 of Erasmus+ (2023-1-BG01-KA210-ADU-000152921)
Authors: Digital Partnerships for Creative Europe Association – Bulgaria, Vox Civica – Romania, KEPDER – Turkiye, AEGARE – Spain
The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.