[MEI-L] CfP: Music Encoding Conference 2019, 29th May - 1st June, Vienna

[Kevin Page]

                    MUSIC ENCODING CONFERENCE 2019
Wednesday 29 May - Saturday 1 June 2019, University of Vienna, Austria
                          CALL FOR PROPOSALS
              http://music-encoding.org/conference/2019/

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 conference2019 at music-encoding.org.


CONFERENCE ORGANISATION

Programme Committee (in progress)
Tim Crawford, Goldsmiths, University of London
Anna E. Kijas, Boston College
Kevin R. Page, chair, University of Oxford
Klaus Rettinghaus, Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig
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