ABSTRACT: Recordings of musical practices are kept in various public institutions and private  depositories  around  the  world.  They  constitute  valuable  data  for ethnomusicological research and are substantial for the world’s musical heritage. At the moment, there are no commonly used systems and standards for organizing, describing or categorizing these data, which makes their use difficult. In this paper, we discuss the required steps to make them findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR), and outline action items to reach these goals. We show solutions that help researchers to manage their data over the whole research lifecycle and discuss the benefits of combining technologies from information science, music information retrieval, and linked data, with  the  aim  of  giving  incentives for  the  ethnomusicology  research  community  to actively participate in these developments in the future...

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