The Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM) conference is the premiere
venue for scholars engaging with digital libraries in the domain of
music and musicology. It provides a forum for musicians, musicologists,
librarians, and technologists to share findings and expertise.
Following up the successful conferences held in 2020 and 2023 as
satellite events of the ISMIR conference, the 2025 conference Digital
Libraries for Musicology is associated with the 26th conference of the
International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR).
Similarly to ISMIR, DLfM is organized in a hybrid format, accepting both
in-person and online participation. However, in-person attendance is
highly encouraged and recommended. To support this, the organizing team
is committed to assisting presenters who wish to attend in person,
providing help with visa arrangements and other logistical needs.
ISMIR is taking place immediately prior to DLfM, Sept 21-25, and will be
held in Daejeon. The connection from Daejeon to Sogang University
(Seoul) can be accomplished by high-speed train in approximately 60-70
minutes. Guidance on transportation will be made available on the
conference website.
CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS
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 music information retrieval (MIR).
Given DLfM’s return this year as a satellite event of the ISMIR
conference, we welcome papers that apply MIR technologies to “music
documents” with a focus on cultural heritage preservation. Scores and
music documents have been digitized by libraries and archives worldwide
for preservation and access. At this DLfM congress, we aim to stimulate
discussions around the use of MIR technologies and their implications
for cultural heritage preservation. The organizing committee strongly
encourages papers and posters that address this theme, however, we
welcome all papers addressing all traditional topics that fall under the
scope of DLfM. Specific examples of topics traditionally covered at DLfM
can be found in the full cfp.
Previous years' DLfM proceedings have been published in the ACM Digital
Library through ACM ICPS. Arrangements for the DLfM 2025 are being
discussed with ACM and will be confirmed in the 2nd Call for Papers. We
are aware of a growing number of institutional and funder requirements
for Open Access publication, and recognise that authors will need to
comply with any policies which apply to them.