[MEI-L] CfP for Music Encoding Conference 2021 (Alicante, Spain)

[Stefan Münnich]

Dear list,

please share widely, with apologies for cross-posting.

We are pleased to announce our call for papers, posters, panels, and workshops for the Music Encoding Conference 2021.

As an important cross-disciplinary venue for all who are interested in the digital representation of music, the Music Encoding Conference is open to and brings together members from various encoding, analysis, and music research communities, including musicologists, theorists, librarians, technologists, music scholars, teachers, and students, and provides an opportunity for learning and engaging with and from each other.

The MEC 2021 will take place 25–28 May 2021 at Universidad de Alicante, Spain. It is co-sponsored with the Instituto Superior de Enseñanzas Artísticas de la Comunidad Valenciana.

Please pay attention to a revised submission process and schedule compared to previous years (see submission section below for details).

Background

Music encoding is a critical component for fields and areas of study including computational or digital musicology, digital editions, symbolic music information retrieval, digital libraries, digital pedagogy, or the wider music industry.

The Music Encoding Conference has emerged as the foremost international forum where researchers and practitioners from across these varied fields can meet and explore new developments in music encoding and its use. The Conference celebrates a multidisciplinary program, 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, pedagogy, 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 program with articulations of the potential for music encoding in their work, highlighting strengths and weaknesses of existing approaches within this context.

Following the formal program, 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. For these meetings, there are various spaces generously provided by the hosting institution on May 28. Please be in touch with conference organizers if you need to reserve these spaces. For meetings on May 26 or 27 availability can be checked upon request.

The program 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 program. We in particular seek to broaden the scope of musical repertories considered, and to provide a welcoming, inclusive community for all who are interested in this work.

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
  *       digital editions
  *       music digital libraries
  *       bibliographies and bibliographic studies
  *       catalogues and collection management
  *       composition
  *       performance
  *       teaching and learning
  *       search and browsing
  *       multimedia music presentation, exploration, and exhibition
  *       machine learning approaches.

Submissions

MEC is working towards a submission process that facilitates access to the proceedings at about the time of the conference. Therefore, unlike previous years, all but panels or workshop submissions are expected to be full-paper submissions (8–10 pages for 20min talks, 4–5 pages for posters).

All submissions will be reviewed by multiple members of the program committee before acceptance.

Please note the following deadlines for the submission process:

10 January: Registration via our ConfTool website: www.conftool.net/music-encoding2021<http://www.conftool.net/music-encoding2021> (available from October 2020) with metadata of contributors including name(s) of author(s), affiliation(s) and email address(es), type and title of the submission, and a short one-paragraph abstract.

17 January: Upload of anonymized submissions (see submission guidelines below) for review to ConfTool. Please be aware that ConfTool does only accept PDF submissions. Please remove all identifying information from the submitted PDF before the upload.

8 March: Notification of acceptance and invitation to authors of accepted submissions to contribute to the MEC proceedings. A formatted template pre-configured with your metadata will be provided on or about the day after notification.

5 April: Upload of accepted submissions in conference-ready version using the provided template. The uploaded version will be made available to all attendees before the conference.

25–28 May: Conference.

14 June: Final upload of camera-ready papers for publication in the proceedings.

The MEC proceedings will be published under an open access license and with an individual DOI number for all papers.

We especially encourage students and other first time attendees to make a submission to the Music Encoding Conference. We are seeking ways to support their attendance. (Please get in touch with conference organizers.)

Submission Guidelines

All submissions should be formatted in A4 size with 2.5cm margins, font size 12, single space, justified, in a sans-serif typeface (e.g. Calibri) according to this template: https://tinyurl.com/mec2021-submission-template (Please take care to remove all identifying information from the submitted PDF before the upload.)

The following submission types are expected to be full-paper submissions:


  *       paper (8–10 pages),
  *       poster (4–5 pages).

The following types are welcome to be abstract submissions:


  *       panel discussions (3–5 pages; submissions should describe the topic and nature of the discussion, along with the main theses and objectives of the proposed contributions, as well as short biographies of the participants; panel discussions are not expected to be a set of papers which could otherwise be submitted as individual papers; in order to be included in the conference proceedings, the panel discussions should be expanded and elaborated into full-paper format of 10–15 pages),
  *       half- or full-day pre-conference workshops (3–5 pages; proposals should include possible conveners, a description of the workshop’s objective and proposed duration, as well as its logistical and technical requirements).

The PC will coordinate the actual duration of proposed panels and workshops in consultation with the local organizers and contributors.

Additional information

As learned from the virtual MEC 2020, the imponderables of a global pandemic require to prepare everything with a possible hybrid (or even totally virtual) conference in mind. The decision on the final format of the conference can therefore only be made on a site-specific, short-term basis in the months leading up to the event. It will be communicated widely through the official channels (conference web page, mailing list, Twitter). In any case, we are seeking ways to make parts of the conference available online independent of the global developments.

Additional details regarding registration, accommodation, etc. will be announced on the conference web page (https://music-encoding.org/conference/2021/).

In case of questions, feel free to contact: conference2021 at music-encoding.org.


For the program committee: Stefan Münnich
For the local organizers: David Rizo
For the MEI Board: Elsa De Luca

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