The 1st International Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop (DLfM 2014)
12th September 2014 (full day), London, UK
in conjunction with the ACM/IEEE Digital Libraries conference 2014
From the call for papers:
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.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: 27th June 2014 (23:59 UTC-11)
Notification of acceptance: 30th July 2014
Registration deadline for one author per paper: 11th August 2014 (14:00 UTC)
Camera ready submission deadline: 11th August 2014 (14:00 UTC)
If you want a feel for the complexity of music as a retrieval subject, consult the various proposals at: Music markup languages, which are only some of the possible music encoding languages.
It is hard to say which domains are more “complex” than others in terms of encoding and subject identity, but it is safe to say that music falls towards the complex end of the scale. (sorry)
I first saw this in a tweet by Misanderasaurus Rex.