User Base of rOpenGov's Music Research Software (Q7242)

The Digital Music Observatory has already created open-source software for the music industry that had been tested in real-life policy advocacy and business cases and scientific uses related to piracy research. While developed with a clear music industry focus, they have found thousands of users in the open research community worldwide for other purposes, too. We aim to further improve them to work asas a software ecosystem, and whenever possible, add web-based application interfaces with the ambition to make them useable for music organization that do not possess in-house RD, IT, or data science capacities. The datasets contains the download statistics of these packages from CRAN.