********************************************************
The Music Encoding Conference 2019 calls for paper, poster, panel, and
workshop proposals to be submitted by 7 December 2018.
The seventh Music Encoding Conference will take place in 2019,
continuing this key annual event for dissemination and discussion for
those working with, and on, music encoding.
The 2019 conference will be held in the beautiful and culturally rich
city of Vienna, Austria, jointly organised by the Austrian Academy of
Sciences and the Mozart Institute of the Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg,
on behalf of the Music Encoding Initiative community. The conference
will be hosted at the University of Vienna over four days, with
pre-conference workshops on Wednesday 29 May, the formal programme on
Thursday 30 and Friday 31 May, and an ‘unconference’ on Saturday 1 June.
BACKGROUND
When using and manipulating digital music information, the properties
and behaviours of its encoding are of fundamental importance - be that
for musicological study, music theory, production of digital editions,
composition, performance, teaching and learning, cataloguing, symbolic
music information retrieval and recommendation, or more general
electronic presentation of musical material and associated narratives.
The study of music encoding and its applications is therefore a critical
foundation for the use of music information by scholars, librarians,
publishers, and the wider music industry.
The Music Encoding Conference has emerged as the foremost international
forum where researchers and practitioners from across these diverse
fields can meet and explore new developments in music encoding and its
use. The Conference celebrates a multidisciplinary programme, combining
the latest advances from established music encodings, novel technical
proposals and encoding extensions, and the presentation or evaluation of
new practical applications of music encoding (e.g. in academic study,
libraries, editions, commercial products).
Pre-conference workshops provide an opportunity to quickly engage with
best practice in the community. Newcomers are encouraged to submit to
the main programme with articulations of the potential for music
encoding in their work, highlighting strengths and weaknesses of
existing approaches within this context. Following the formal programme,
on Saturday 1 June, an unconference session fosters collaboration in the
community through the meeting of Interest Groups, and self-selected
discussions on hot topics that emerge during the conference.
The programme welcomes contributions from all those working on, or with,
any music encoding. In addition, the Conference serves as a focus event
for the Music Encoding Initiative community, with its annual community
meeting scheduled the day following the main programme, on Saturday 1 June.
TOPICS
The conference welcomes contributions from all those who are developing
or applying music encodings in their work and research. Topics include,
but are not limited to:
* data structures for music encoding
* music encoding standardisation
* music encoding interoperability / universality
* methodologies for encoding, music editing, description and analysis
* computational analysis of encoded music
* rendering of symbolic music data in audio and graphical forms
* conceptual encoding of relationships between multimodal music forms
(e.g. symbolic music data, encoded text, facsimile images, audio)
* capture, interchange, and re-purposing of musical data and metadata
* ontologies, authority files, and linked data in music encoding and
description
* (symbolic) music information retrieval using music encoding
* evaluation of music encodings
* best practice in approaches to music encoding
and the use or application of music encodings in:
* music theory and analysis
* digital musicology and, more broadly, digital humanities
* music digital libraries
* digital editions
* bibliographies and bibliographic studies
* catalogues
* collection management
* composition
* performance
* teaching and learning
* search and browsing
* multimedia music presentation, exploration, and exhibition
SUBMISSIONS
The Music Encoding Conference 2019 calls for paper, poster, panel, and
workshop proposals. All submissions will be reviewed by 2-3 members of
the programme committee before acceptance.
Authors are invited to upload their anonymized submission for review to
our Conftool website:
https://www.conftool.net/music-encoding2019
The deadline for all submissions is 7 December 2018 (see IMPORTANT DATES
below). Conftool accepts abstracts as PDF files only. The submission to
Conftool must include:
* name(s) of author(s)
* title
* abstract (see below for maximum lengths)
* current or most recent institutional affiliation of author(s) and
e-mail address
* proposal type: paper, poster, panel session, or workshop
* all identifying information must be provided in the corresponding
fields of Conftool only, while the submitted PDF must anonymize the
author’s details.
Paper and poster proposals must include an abstract of no more than 1000
words. Relevant bibliographic references may be included above this
limit (i.e. will not be counted within the 1000 word limit). Please also
include a short statement regarding your current interests related to
music encoding.
Panel discussion proposal abstracts must be no longer than 2000 words,
and describe the topic and nature of the discussion, along with short
biographies of the participants. Panel discussions are not expected to
be a set of papers which could otherwise be submitted as individual papers.
Proposals for half- or full-day pre-conference workshops, to be held on
May 29th, should include the workshop’s proposed duration, as well as
its logistical and technical requirements.
Additional details regarding registration, accommodation, etc. will be
announced on the conference web page:
http://music-encoding.org/conference/2019/
IMPORTANT DATES
All deadlines are midnight, Vienna (UTC+1).
Friday 7 December 2018: Deadline for submissions
Friday 25 January 2019: Notifications of acceptance
Wednesday 29 May 2019: Pre-conference workshops
Thursday 30 and Friday 31 May 2019: Papers, panels, and posters programme
Saturday 1 June 2019: Unconference
If you have any questions, please e-mail
[log in to unmask].
CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
Programme Committee
Tim Crawford, Goldsmiths, University of London
Johanna Devaney, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Andrew Hankinson, Bodleian Libraries
Anna E. Kijas, Boston College
Kevin R. Page, chair, University of Oxford
Klaus Rettinghaus, Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig
Agnes Seipelt, University of Paderborn
Raffaele Viglianti, University of Maryland
Local organising committee
Robert Klugseder, Institute for History of Art and Musicology, Austrian
Academy of Sciences
Franz Kelnreiter, Mozart Institute, Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg
Paul Gulewycz, Institute for History of Art and Musicology, Austrian
Academy of Sciences
