About me
Henrik Smith-Sivertsen is a senior researcher at the Royal Danish Library, responsible for the Danish popular music archives. He did his PhD on popular music translation and cover theory, and has primarily worked with European popular music history from a wide range of perspectives, including value, technology, music industry and not least musical versioning practices. His publications include studies of the Anglophone pop revolution in the early 1960’s, music industry history, music radio history and the digital music revolution.
Since 2012, he has specialized in the building and use of digital archives and has conducted several collecting and research projects on the digital music heritage. Not least, he was first scholars to evaluate the use of web archived materials in relation to music history writing in a 2012 project. His work resulted in an indexing of the Danish Web Archive (Netarkivet), making free text search into the archive possible.