{"id":2411,"date":"2026-06-04T15:29:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2026-06-04T15:29:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:29:28","slug":"20-years-of-sound-sharing-at-freesound-the-prominent-international-project-founded-at-the-upf-news-article-by-upf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/?p=2411","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;20 years of sound sharing at Freesound, the prominent international project founded at the UPF&#8221; news article by UPF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Universitat Pompeu Fabra (of which the Phonos Foundation and Freesound are part of) has published a comprehensive article titled <strong><em>20 years of sound sharing at Freesound, the prominent international project founded at the UPF<\/em><\/strong>. The article traces the 20-year journey of Freesound, explaining how the project emerged to give researchers and creators <em>free<\/em> access to sound recordings, then evolved from a simple database into a sophisticated platform with tools, APIs, datasets, and technologies for sound analysis. The article also highlights Freesound\u2019s impact on creativity, as well as its role in community-based research, sound culture initiatives, and citizen participation projects. Finally, it examines how Freesound has become a valuable resource for artificial intelligence research, while discussing current efforts to ensure that AI serves the interests of the community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article can serve as a nice introduction to Freesound and the community :), and a good complement to the already available <a href=\"https:\/\/fs20.freesound.org\/pages\/\">materials of the 20th years anniversary celebration<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can read the article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upf.edu\/en\/web\/focus\/w\/20-anys-freesound-upf\">https:\/\/www.upf.edu\/en\/web\/focus\/w\/20-anys-freesound-upf<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>frederic<br>on behalf of the Freesound team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Universitat Pompeu Fabra (of which the Phonos Foundation and Freesound are part of) has published a comprehensive article titled 20 years of sound sharing at Freesound, the prominent international project founded at the UPF. The article traces the 20-year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/?p=2411\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2414,"href":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions\/2414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}