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Participants may join each session in-person or online, except where noted otherwise. Times are given in local conference time (CDT). Full session details will be available in Conftool, https://www.conftool.net/mec2024/

Program Overview:

May 20, 2024: Workshops

May 21, 2024: Conference Day 1

May 22, 2024: Conference Day 2

May 23, 2024: Unconference Day

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May 20, 2024: Workshops↑

• 9:00-10:30AM
  AudiAnnotate Workshop

  Conveners: Samantha J. Turner and Trent J. Wintermeier, University of Texas, Austin

  Created by Dr. Tanya Clement and Brumfield Labs, AVAnnotate is a free and open source workflow and application for sharing annotations of audio and video artifacts and making digital exhibits and editions with AV materials. Leveraging IIIF and GitHub for sharing curated annotations of audiovisual materials held at libraries, archives, and museums, AVAnnotate allows users to combine metadata for online audio and video assets with user-generated annotations and contextual essays to create simple web-based editions and exhibits. Learn more about AudiAnnotate.

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• 10:30-10:45AM Short Break
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• 10:45AM-12:15PM
  MEI Basic workshop part 1

  Convener: Maristella Feustle, University of North Texas

  More info coming soon

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• 12:15-1:00PM Lunch Break
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• 1:00-3:00PM
  MEI Basic workshop part 2

  Convener: Maristella Feustle, University of North Texas

  More info coming soon

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• 3:00-3:15PM Short Break
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• 3:15-5:45PM
  Metadata Editing in MEI

  Convener: Clemens Gubsch, Austrian Academy of Sciences

  More info coming soon

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• 6:30-8:30PM Opening Reception (in-person participants)

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May 21, 2024: Conference Day 1 ↑

• 9:00-9:15AM: Welcome (Chair, Maristella Feustle, University of North Texas)
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• 9:15-10:30AM: Opening Keynote (Session Chair: Anna E. Kijas, Tufts University)
  Keynote Speaker: Dr. Imani Mosley

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• 10:30-10:45AM: Short Break
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• 10:45AM-12:00PM: Paper Session #1 (Session Chair: Johannes Kepper, Paderborn University, Germany)
  The “Clausula Archive of the Notre Dame Repertory”: End-to-end OMR, encoding, and analysis of medieval polyphony (Long Paper)

  Presenter(s): Joshua Stutter, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

  Encoding and Analysis of Early Music: Aquitanian and Square Music Scripts (Short Paper)

  Presenter(s): Elsa De Luca, Martha E. Thomae, Vicente Urones Sánchez, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal

  Indexing Hymnody: Comparative Analysis and Opportunities for Interoperability (Short Paper)

  Presenter(s): Jesse P. Karlsberg, Emory University

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• 11:45AM-1:00PM Lunch Break
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• 1:00-2:30PM: Paper Session #2 (Session Chair: Joshua Neumann, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz)
  MEI-Basic support in MuseScore 4.2 (Long Paper)

  Presenter(s): Laurent Pugin¹, Johannes Hentschel², Ioannis Rammos², Andrew Hankinson¹, Martin Rohrmeier²

  1:RISM Digital Center, Switzerland; 2: Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab, EPFL, Switzerland

  Simplifying MEI for Searching Applications (Short Paper)

  Presenter(s): Jacob Ivan Stevenson, David Day, Brigham Young University, United States of America

  Issues of FRBR systematics in indexing sources that represent different versions of works. The example of Franz Liszt (Short Paper)

  Presenter(s): Matthias Richter¹, Boris Voigt²

  1: SLUB Dresden; 2: University of Heidelberg

  Works of other authors and composers as templates – approaches to capture template research in digital music editions. A case study in the context of the Reger-Werkausgabe. (Short Paper)

  Presenter(s): Nikolaos Beer¹, Alexander Nguyen²

  1: University of Paderborn, Germany; 2: Max-Reger-Institute, Karlsruhe/Germany

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May 22, 2024: Conference Day 2 ↑

• 9:15-10:45AM: Paper Session #3 (Session Chair: Jesse P. Karlsberg, Emory University)
  Beyond the Standard Model (Long Paper)

  Presenter(s): Johannes Kepper, Lisa Rosendahl, Richard Sänger, Beethovens Werkstatt, Germany

  Modelling Multi-domain Voicing in the Goldberg Variations (Short Paper)

  Presenter(s): Sarah J. Monnier, James K. Tauber

  Modelling Performance – Conceptual Realities vs. Practical Limitations in MEI (Long Paper)

  Presenter(s): Joshua Neumann, Kristina Richts-Matthaei, Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, Germany

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• 10:45-11:00AM Short Break
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• 11:00AM-12:00PM Performance & Media Meeting
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• 12:00-1:00PM Lunch Break
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• 1:00-2:30PM: Paper Session #4 (Session Chair: Maristella Feustle, University of North Texas)
  Critical Semantic Properties of Music Notation Datasets (Long Paper)

  Presenter(s): Markus Lepper¹, Baltasar Trancón y Widemann^1,2

  1:semantics gGmbH, Germany; 2: Hochschule Brandenburg

  GagakuXML: Markup for Hichiriki Scores and Enhancing Efficiency in Traditional Japanese Music Encoding (Short Paper)

  Presenter(s): Shintaro Seki, The University of Toyko, Japan

  Musical Instrument Encoding Matters (Short Paper)

  Presenter(s): Kyrie Ekaterina Bouressa, Ichiro Fujinaga, McGill University, Canada

  Towards a standardization of lead sheet encoding: an experience in OMR. (Short Paper)

  Presenter(s): Patricia García-Iasci^{1, 2}, Juan Carlos Martínez Sevilla¹, David Rizo^{1, 3}, Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza¹

  1: University of Salamanca, Spain; 2: University of Alicante, Spain; 3: ISEA.CV

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• 2:30-2:45PM Short Break
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• 2:45-4:00PM Closing Keynote (Session Chair: Joshua Neumann, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz)
  Keynote Speaker: Dr. Michael S. Cuthbert

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May 23, 2024: Unconference Day ↑

• 9:15AM-12:00PM
  Community meeting (open to all)
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• 1:00-3:00PM
  Interest group and project meetings