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<div style="margin-top:14pt; margin-bottom:14pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px"><font size="5"><b>13th International
Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM 2026)</b></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px"><b>Thursday 02 July 2026</b><b><br>
Thessaloniki Concert Hall, Thessaloniki, Greece</b><b><br>
A satellite event of IAML 2026</b></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:16pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">The Digital Libraries for Musicology
(DLfM) conference presents a venue specifically for those working on, and with, Digital Library systems and content in the domain of music and musicology. DLfM welcomes contributions related to any aspect of digital libraries and musicology, including topics
related to musical archiving and retrieval, cataloguing and classification, musical databases, special collections, music encodings and representations, computational musicology, or the application of music information retrieval (MIR) to musicology (see TOPICS,
below).</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">DLfM alternately partners with the
IAML and ISMIR conferences to encourage new collaborations and discussions surrounding prominent issues in our shared field. This installment of DLfM follows previous successful conferences in Seoul, Stellenbosch, Milan, Prague, Montreal, The Hague, Paris,
Shanghai, New York, Knoxville, and London.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">This year DLfM will be a satellite
event of the IAML conference, and given that music libraries and archives are a regular first-contact point between researchers and materials, we particularly encourage papers and posters that use library and archives technologies and conceptualizations to
broaden and enhance access to digital musicology methodologies. Scores and music documents have been digitized by libraries and archives worldwide for preservation and access, which numerous specialist technologies have been developed for use in their analysis.
At this years conference, we aim to stimulate discussions around increasing usage of research tools within cultural heritage preservation and analysis, and resulting implications therefrom. We especially welcome papers focused on the for Musicology aspect
of DLfM, considering how methodologies and results therein are made accessible for musicologists. Please note that DLfMs review process for submissions to proceedings operates on full and short papers, not on abstracts. See Submissions below for further
details on format.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px"><font size="4"><b>DLfM CHALLENGE</b></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">To complement the main proceedings,
the DLfM Challenge welcomes short submissions introducing works-in-progress and position papers that will benefit from the broad expertise of the DLfM community. We welcome speculative work and submissions that explore particular problems, as well as those
that suggest solutions, whether they emanate from practical, theoretical/philosophical, or other conceptual frameworks.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">Given Greeces acclaimed fundamentality
to Western culture and modes of thinking, this years challenge track draws inspiration from the Socratic method of questioning as basis for research, preservation, and teaching in the interdisciplinary contexts represented by the DLfM and IAML communities.
We thus seek challenge track proposals engaging a variety of questionsboth with and about digital libraries content, infrastructure, tools, and engagement.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px"><font size="4"><b>IMPORTANT DATES</b></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">All deadlines are at 23:59 Anywhere
on Earth. There will be no extensions to submission deadlines.</span></font></div>
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<li><a href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/DLfM2026/Track/1/Submission/Create" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Submissions open via CMT</a>: December 2025</li><li><b>Full paper and short paper submission deadline: 23 January 2026</b></li><li>Notification of full and short paper acceptance: 09 March 2026</li><li>Camera-ready submission deadline for full and short papers*: 09 April 2026</li><li>DLfM Challenge submission deadline: 15 April 2026</li><li>Poster submission deadline: 15 April 2026</span></font></li><li><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2">Conference registration deadline: 25 June 2026</font></li><li><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2">Conference: 02 July 2026, Thessaloniki, Greece</font></li></ul>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px"><b>* At least one author of accepted
submissions must be registered for the conference before the camera-ready submission deadline to be included in the conference programme. Prior DLfM events have worked to keep registration costs as low as possible. Registration details will be announced on
the conference website as soon as they are available.</b></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:16pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px"><font size="4"><b>CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES</b></font></span></font></div>
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<li>to act as a forum for reporting, presenting, evaluating and disseminating work combining technology with musicology through Digital Library systems;</li><li>to critically evaluate the operation of Music Digital Libraries and the applications and findings that flow from them;</li><li>to re-evaluate 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 methods, and MIR;</span></font></li><li><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2">to explore how digital libraries and digital musicology can combine to offer richer online access to online
music collections;</font></li><li><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2">to set the agenda for work in the field to address these new challenges and opportunities.</font></li></ul>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px"> </span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:16pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px"><font size="4"><b>TOPICS</b></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to:</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px"><b>Building and managing digital music
collections</b></span></font></div>
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<li>Optical music recognition</span></font></li><li><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2">Information literacies for Music Digital Libraries</font></li><li><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2">Data quality assessment</font></li></ul>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px"><b>Access, interfaces, and ergonomics</b></span></font></div>
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<li>Interfaces and access mechanisms for digital music content</li><li>Identification/location of music (in all forms) in generic Digital Libraries</li><li>Techniques for locating and accessing music in very large Digital Libraries (e.g. HathiTrust, Internet Archive)</span></font></li><li><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2">Mechanisms for combining multi-form music content within and between Digital Libraries and other digital resources</font></li><li><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2">User information needs and behaviour for Music Digital Libraries</font></li></ul>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px"><b>Musicological knowledge</b></span></font></div>
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<li>Music data representations, including manuscripts/scores and audio</li><li>Applied MIR techniques for digital music content or analysis</li><li>Computational and systematic approaches to musicological analysis</li><li>Extraction of musical concepts from symbolic notation and/or audio data</li><li>Metadata and metadata schemas for music</li><li>Application of Linked Data and Semantic Web techniques to Music Digital Library content, access, or organisation</span></font></li><li><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2">Ontologies and categorisation of musics and music artefacts</font></li><li><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2">Digital workflows (and their accessibility) for musicological research</font></li></ul>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px"><b>Improving data for musicology</b></span></font></div>
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<font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">
<li>Musical corpus-building at scale</li><li>Enriching public access to music, music-cultural, and music-ephemera material online</span></font></li><li><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2">Digital Libraries showcasing need or support of musicology and/or other scholarly domain</font></li><li><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2">Digital Libraries combining resources for musicology (e.g. combining audio, scores, bibliographic, geographic,
ethnomusicology, performance, etc.)</font></li></ul>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px"><font size="4"><b>PROCEEDINGS</b></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">Authors are encouraged to consult
and reference previous <a href="https://dl.acm.org/conference/dlfm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">DLfM proceedings of full and short papers</a>, which are available as Open Access publications in the ACM Digital Library as part of ICPS; and via
the DLfM website. </span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">For DLfM 2026, proceedings of full
and short papers will once again be published as Open Access publications in the ACM Digital Library through ICPS. Details on the publication process will be provided on acceptance of your submission to the proceedings.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">Posters and Challenge papers will
be published separately on the DLfM website.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px"><font size="4"><b>SUBMISSIONS</b></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">All submissions must present novel
work which has not been published elsewhere, and is not under active consideration by another conference or journal. Submissions must be anonymised as far as practically possible, and pre-prints must not be publicly available during review.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">The link for submissions is: <a href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/DLfM2026/Track/1/Submission/Create" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a><a href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/DLfM2026/Track/1/Submission/Create" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/DLfM2026/Track/1/Submission/Create</a><a href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/DLfM2026/Track/1/Submission/Create" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> </a> </span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">All submissions will be peer-reviewed.
Full and short papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the programme committee.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">DLfM expects all accepted submissions
to be presented in-person at the conference.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">All submissions must be in English,
formatted according to the ACM sigconf template for two-column papers (see FORMATTING below), in PDF format, and A4 size. Page limits for submitted papers apply to all text, excluding the bibliography (i.e., references can be included on pages over the specified
limits).</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">As part of the submission process, authors
must also provide a short abstract ( 2000 characters) and declare any use of Generative AI in authoring the paper.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">Submissions should be uploaded to
the <a href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/DLfM2026/Track/1/Submission/Create" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">conference CMT website</a> according to the IMPORTANT DATES above. The conference CMT website will open for submissions in December
2025. Authors should select the correct category for their submission as follows:</span></font></div>
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<li>FULL PAPERS of up to 8 pages excluding references should report substantive and completed research. Accepted full papers will be included in the main proceedings.</li><li>SHORT PAPERS of up to 4 pages excluding references might report research which, while substantive, may not yet be complete. Academically thorough position papers are also suitable for submission as a short paper. Accepted short paper will be included in
the main proceedings.</span></font></li><li><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2">CHALLENGE PAPERS of up to 2 pages excluding references should meet the call for the DLfM CHALLENGE section,
above. Accepted Challenge papers will be presented at the conference either as a lightning talk, part of a panel, or as a poster (as determined by the Programme Chair). Challenge submissions will be published on the conference website.</font></li><li><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2">POSTERS should initially be submitted as an abstract outlining both the scholarly content and the proposed
layout in 500 words, or fewer. Following acceptance, a digital copy of the poster itself must be submitted prior to the conference, which will be published on the DLfM website. Information on printed poster size and formats will be provided following acceptance.</font></li></ul>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px"><font size="4"><b>FORMATTING</b></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">Authors should follow ACM instructions
for formatting carefully. Authors submitting to all categories must use either the LaTeX or Word templates provided by ACM. Where possible, we recommend LaTeX (including Overleaf) due to a simpler process for accepted authors when producing camera-ready versions.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">Authors using the ACM LaTeX template
should select 'sigconf', 'authordraft', and 'anonymous' settings for initial submission after downloading the template from: <a href="https://portalparts.acm.org/hippo/latex_templates/acmart-primary.zip" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://portalparts.acm.org/hippo/latex_templates/acmart-primary.zip</a></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">Overleaf is an online web-based editor
for LaTeX, with presets for the ACM template. Authors should select 'sigconf', 'authordraft', and 'anonymous' settings for initial submission before accessing: <a href="https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computing-machinery-acm-sig-proceedings-template/bmvfhcdnxfty" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computing-machinery-acm-sig-proceedings-template/bmvfhcdnxfty</a></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">Authors wishing to use the ACM Word
template should download it from : <a href="https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/word_style/interim-template-style/interim-layout.docx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/word_style/interim-template-style/interim-layout.docx</a></span></font></div>
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AI IN SUBMISSIONS</b></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">We recognize that authors of academic
works use a variety of tools in the research on which they report, and to prepare the report itself, ranging from simple to very sophisticated. Community opinion on the appropriateness of such tools may be varied and evolving; AI powered language tools have
in particular led to significant debate. We note that tools may generate useful and helpful results, but also errors or misleading results; therefore, knowing which tools were used, and how, is relevant to evaluating and interpreting academic works.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">In the view of this, we:</span></font></div>
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<li>require authors to report in their work any significant use of sophisticated tools, such as instruments and software; we now include in particular text-to-text generative AI among those tools that should be reported consistent with subject standards for
methodology;</li><li>remind all colleagues that by signing their name as an author of a contribution, they each individually take full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. If generative AI language tools generate inappropriate
language, plagiarized content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in academic works, it is the responsibility of the author(s);</span></font></li><li><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2">stipulate that generative AI language tools should not be listed as an author; instead authors should refer
to the first point;.</font></li><li><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2">run AI detection tools on all submissions in order to ensure accurate labour attribution.</font></li></ol>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">This statement mirrors the <a href="https://music-encoding.org/conference/2026/ai-statement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Music
Encoding Conference 2026s policy </a>itself adapted from the <a href="https://blog.arxiv.org/2023/01/31/arxiv-announces-new-policy-on-chatgpt-and-similar-tools/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">arXiv policy for authors use of generative AI language
tools </a>. We reserve the right to amend this statement as discussions continue and evolve.</span></font></div>
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sanctions on authors should generative AI be misused or found to be in breach of research ethics, up to and including a ban on future submissions.</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">Please contact the Chairs with any
questions via: <a href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/DLfM2026/Email/Chairs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/DLfM2026/Email/Chairs</a></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Garamond,Georgia,serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" size="2"><span style="font-size:14.67px">Programme Chair: Joshua Neumann,
Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz</span></font></div>
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa</span></font></div>
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University of Maryland</span></font></div>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Lato",sans-serif">Dr. Joshua Neumann<br>
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Digitale Akademie<br>
Centre for Digital Music Documentation<br>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Lato",sans-serif">Creating Schuberts
<i>Die Winterreise</i> in Performance with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (funded by the Thyssen Stiftung fr Wissenschaftsfrderung), PI</span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b style=""><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Lato",sans-serif; color:#002F5D">Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz</span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Lato",sans-serif"><br>
Geschwister-Scholl-Strae 2<br>
55131 Mainz</span></p>
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<span style="color:#002F5D">joshua.neumann@adwmainz.de</span><br>
Web: <a href="https://adwmainz.de/" id="LPNoLP"><span style="color:#002F5D">https://adwmainz.de</span></a><br>
<span style=""></span>ORCID: <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7970-5553" id="LPNoLP">
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