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Dear colleagues,<br>
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On behalf of the organizing and program committees we are delighted
to invite you to attend the Music Encoding Conference 2015, which
will be held on 18-21 May in Florence, Italy.<br>
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The conference is an opportunity to discuss the new research paths
that the encoding of symbolic music data opens to traditional music
studies (from editing to analysis), as well as computational
musicology, music bibliography and librarianship. <br>
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The quest for a coherent and universal system for the digital
representation of music notation has been pursued for decades and
the recent accomplishments of the Music Encoding Initiative have
garnered a great deal of attention in a wide range of music
scholarship and in the broader digital humanities. The conference
aims to gather specialists in all the above areas, to discuss the
current state of modelling, generation and use of music encoding, to
exchange experiences, report on successful projects on major
collections and composers, and to forge collaborations for future
projects. <br>
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The program opens on Monday, May 18th with pre-conference
tutorials/workshop on MEI and its applications. Two days will follow
full of papers and poster presentations covering various theoretical
and practical issues in research and publishing. The program is
completed by an "Un-conference Day" on Thursday, May 21: an
opportunity for everyone interested in using and improving MEI —
developers, librarians, musicologists, editors, publishers — to
investigate the topics they're most interested in.<br>
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We are delighted to announce that this year’s keynote speakers will
be Elena Pierazzo and Eleanor Selfridge-Field.<br>
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More details regarding program, venue, registration and
accommodation are available on the conference website at <a
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href="http://music-encoding.org/conference">http://music-encoding.org/conference</a>.
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Regular registration will close on 31 March 2015. Late registration
fees will apply between 1 April and 30 April. Discounted fees are
available for students.<br>
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Queries to: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:conference2015@music-encoding.org">conference2015@music-encoding.org</a><br>
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With warmest regards,<br>
<br>
Federica Riva<br>
Giuliano Di Bacco<br>
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<li>Organizing Committee: Federica Riva, IAML-Italia (chair);
Giuliano Di Bacco, Indiana University Bloomington; Mila De
Santis, Università di Firenze; Paola Gibbin, Biblioteca
Nazionale di Firenze; Johannes Kepper, Universität Paderborn;
Perry Roland, University of Virginia</li>
<li>Program Committee: Christine Siegert, Universität der Künste
Berlin (chair); Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign; Richard Freedman, Haverford College; Franz
Kelnreiter, Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg; Axel
Teich Geertinger, The Royal Library Copenhagen</li>
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