Join artists, engineers, designers, librarians, and entrepreneurs to reimagine the role of New England Conservatory's library archives in the 21st century.

The Archives & Special Collections are the official repository for information and records generated by the oldest continually operating independent music school in the United States. These rare materials cover all areas of the Conservatory including internal records, music manuscripts, MP3/MP4 files, bibliographic access, and first editions from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

Blockchain is the emerging technology spearheading the decentralized web infrastructure. This event is an opportunity to learn and explore the disruptive, enabling potential of this technology for historical music records. Participants will join small interdisciplinary teams focused on a specific challenge to build blockchain applications around.

Areas of interest include transparency, digital rights management, piracy protection, fair exchange of value, and new creative business models. Repository information will be made available by NEC and OS Protocol & API resources provided during the event.