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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).
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.
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 year’s 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 posters focused on the “for Musicology” aspect of DLfM, considering how methodologies and results are made accessible. We also welcome posters that address the DLFM Challenge theme (see below).
DLfM CHALLENGE
To complement the main proceedings, the DLfM Challenge welcomes poster 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.
Given Greece’s acclaimed fundamentality to Western culture and modes of thinking, this year’s 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 questions—both with and about digital libraries’ content, infrastructure, tools, and engagement.