Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM) 2018
5th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology,
Paris 2018
A satellite event of ISMIR 2018.
In 2018 DLfM calls for paper submissions to two tracks: a ‘proceedings track’ for short and full papers; and a ‘Unlocking Musicology challenge’ track for position papers reporting novel digital routes for disseminating and engaging musicology beyond academia.
Colleagues particularly interested in modelling audio and music, or are using semantic web technologies in their music-related research are also encouraged to consider our sister workshop, Semantic Applications for Audio and Music to be held at Monterey, California on October 9, 2018.
Conference organisation
Programme Chair
Kevin Page, University of Oxford
Local Chairs
Cécile Davy-Rigaux, IReMus UMR 8223 (CNRS — Sorbonne Université — Bibliothèque nationale de France — ministère de la Culture et de la Communication)
Christophe Guillotel-Nothmann, IReMus UMR 8223 (CNRS — Sorbonne Université — Bibliothèque nationale de France — ministère de la Culture et de la Communication)
Publicity and proceedings Chair
David Lewis, University of Oxford
Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Building and managing digital music collections
- Optical Music Recognition
- Information literacies for Music Digital Libraries
- Data quality assessment
- Access, interfaces and ergonomics
- Interfaces and access mechanisms for Music Digital Libraries
- Identification/location of music (in all forms) in generic Digital Libraries
- Techniques for locating and accessing music in Very Large Digital Libraries (e.g. HathiTrust, Internet Archive) and musical corpus-building at scale
- Mechanisms for combining multi-form music content within and between Digital Libraries and other digital resources
- User information needs and behaviour for Music Digital Libraries
- Musicological Knowledge
- Music data representations, including manuscripts/scores and audio
- Applied MIR techniques in Music Digital Libraries and musicological investigations using them
- Extraction of musical concepts from symbolic notation and audio data
- Metadata and metadata schemas for music
- Application of Linked Data and Semantic Web techniques to Music Digital Libraries, and for their access and organisation
- Ontologies and categorisation of musics and music artefacts
- Improving data for musicology
- Digital Libraries which enrich public access to music, music-cultural, and music-ephemera material online
- Digital Libraries in support of musicology and other scholarly study; novel requirements and methodologies therein
- Digital Libraries for combination of resources in support of musicology (e.g. combining audio, scores, bibliographic, geographic, ethnomusicology, performance, etc.)
Important dates
- Paper submission deadline: 15th June 2018 (23:59 UTC-11)
- Notification of acceptance: 27th July 2018
- Camera ready submission deadline: 24th August 2018
- Conference: 28th September 2018
Full details
https://dlfm.web.ox.ac.uk/