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CALL FOR PAPERS



4th International Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop (DLfM 2017)



Saturday 28th October 2017



Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Shanghai, China



A satellite event of ISMIR 2017 <https://ismir2017.smcnus.org/>



<http://www.transforming-musicology.org/dlfm2017/>



In 2017 DLfM calls for paper submissions to two tracks: a 'proceedings

track' for short and full papers which will be presented at the

workshop and published in the workshop proceedings; and a 'Transforming

Musicology challenge' track for presented papers and posters.





WORKSHOP LOCATION



Shanghai is one of the most populous cities in the world, a major 

international gateway to China and an important academic centre, 

housing over thirty universities and colleges. As a location for

a satellite workshop of ISMIR, it is especially convenient, being

on the route many attendees will use to return home.



The Shanghai Conservatory of Music was one of the first in China to

offer higher education in music and has an international reputation

for the standard of its students and teaching staff. The Conservatory

also houses a substantial library and a Museum of Oriental Musical 

Instruments.





BACKGROUND



Many Digital Libraries have long offered facilities to provide

multimedia content, including music. However there is now an ever more

urgent need to specifically support the distinct multiple forms of

music, the links between them, and the surrounding scholarly context,

as required by the transformed and extended methods being applied to

musicology and the wider Digital Humanities.



The Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM) workshop presents a venue

specifically for those working on, and with, Digital Library systems

and content in the domain of music and musicology. This includes Music

Digital Library systems, their application and use in musicology,

technologies for enhanced access and organisation of musics in Digital

Libraries, bibliographic and metadata for music, intersections with

music Linked Data, and the challenges of working with the multiple

representations of music across large-scale digital collections such

as the Internet Archive and HathiTrust.



This, the fourth Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop, is a

satellite event of the annual International Society for Music

Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference being held in nearby Suzhou,

and in particular encourages reports on the use of MIR methods and

technologies within Music Digital Library systems when applied to the

pursuit of musicological research.



Proceedings of previous DLfM workshops can be found in the ACM Digital 

Library: <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2970044>





WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES



DLfM will focus on the implications of music on Digital Libraries and

Digital Libraries research when pushing the boundaries of contemporary

musicology, including the application of techniques as reported in

more technologically oriented fora such as ISMIR and ICMC.



This will be the fourth edition of DLfM following a very successful and

well received workshops at Digital Libraries 2014, JCDL 2015, and ISMIR

2016, giving an opportunity for the community to present and discuss

recent developments that address the challenges of effectively

combining technology with musicology through Digital Library systems

and their application.



The workshop objectives are:



- to act as a forum for reporting, presenting, and evaluating this

 work and disseminating new approaches to advance the discipline;

- to create a venue for critically and constructively evaluating and

 verifying the operation of Music Digital Libraries and the

 applications and findings that flow from them;

- to consider the suitability of existing Music Digital Libraries,

 particularly in light of the transformative methods and

 applications emerging from musicology, large collections of both

 audio and music related data, ‘big data’ method, and MIR;

- to set the agenda for work in the field to address these new

 challenges and opportunities.





TOPICS



Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to:



- Music Digital Libraries

- Applied MIR techniques in Music Digital Libraries and musicological

 investigations using them

- Techniques for locating and accessing music in Very Large Digital

 Libraries (e.g. HathiTrust, Internet Archive)

- Music data representations, including manuscripts/scores and audio

- Interfaces and access mechanisms for Music Digital Libraries.

- 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.)

- User information needs and behaviour for Music Digital Libraries

- Identification/location of music (in all forms) in generic Digital

 Libraries

- Mechanisms for combining multi-form music content within and

 between Digital Libraries and other digital resources

- Information literacies for Music Digital Libraries

- Metadata and metadata schemas for music

- Application of Linked Data and Semantic Web techniques to Music

 Digital Libraries, and for their access and organisation

- Optical Music Recognition

- Ontologies and categorisation of musics and music artefacts





SUBMISSIONS



Papers will be peer reviewed by 2-3 members of the programme committee.



Please produce your paper using the ACM template and submit it to DLfM

on EasyChair by 30 June 2017 (see IMPORTANT DATES).



All submitted papers must:



- be written in English;

- contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses;

- be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template with a

 Type 1 font no smaller than 9pt;

- be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform),

 and formatted for A4 size.



It is the authors' responsibility to ensure that their submissions

adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply

with the above requirements may be rejected without review.



Please note that at least one author from each accepted paper must

attend the workshop to present their work.



ACM template: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dlfm2017

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SUBMISSIONS - PROCEEDINGS TRACK



We invite full papers (up to 8 pages) or short and position papers (up

to 4 pages).  In addition to the general submission requirements above

(see SUBMISSIONS), we will require that camera-ready copy be received

before 15 September 2017 (see IMPORTANT DATES). At least one author

from each accepted paper must be registered by that date.





SUBMISSIONS - TRANSFORMING MUSICOLOGY CHALLENGE



What will the next generation of musicologists be studying? And how

will they carry out their research? What part will digital technology

play in the musicology of the future? And how will future musicologists

be using digital libraries?



The Transforming Musicology Challenge solicits short position paper

submissions to the Digital Libraries for Musicology Workshop of up to 2

pages (see SUBMISSIONS). Transforming Musicology Challenge papers

should describe, in detail, a musicological investigation or scenario

that uses, or might use in the future, technologies relevant to DLfM

(see the Topics section of the call). The ideal entry would speculate

on the kind work that, in the author's imagination, current

researchers' successors will be carrying out. While the primary focus

of Challenge papers should be musical scholarship, authors are

encouraged to relate research questions to the technical challenges

that must be addressed.



Musicology Challenge papers will be peer reviewed, and accepted papers

will be presented at the workshop as either part of a panel or a

poster. Transforming Musicology Challenge papers will not be included

in the main workshop proceedings, but will be compiled into a

supplement hosted on the workshop website.



While we encourage authors engage with the workshop through the

Transforming Musicology Challenge track, those who wish their papers to

appear in  the main proceedings may prefer to submit a more detailed description of their work to the Proceedings Track as a short or long paper (see above).





IMPORTANT DATES



Paper submission deadline (all tracks): 30th June 2017 (23:59 UTC-11)

Notification of acceptance: 3rd August 2017

Camera ready submission deadline: 15th September 2017

Workshop: 28th October 2017





WORKSHOP ORGANISATION



Programme Chair

Dr Kevin PAGE, University of Oxford



Local Chair

Prof. YANG Yandi, Shanghai Conservatory of Music



Publicity and proceedings

David LEWIS, University of Oxford