- From: David M. Weigl <david.weigl@oerc.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 17:51:43 +0200
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
With apologies for cross-postings. Please forward to interested
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Final CALL FOR PAPERS -- n.b. extended deadline!
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International Workshop on
Semantic Applications for Audio and Music
SAAM 2018
An ISWC 2018 workshop, Oct 9, 2018,
Monterey, California, USA
http://saam.semanticaudio.ac.uk/
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The SAAM organising committee would like to invite researchers,
engineers, developers and all those interested in semantic applications
for audio and music to submit their work (long/short/challenge papers)
to SAAM 2018, held in conjunction with the International Semantic
Web Conference (ISWC 2018).
SAAM is a venue for dissemination and discussion, identifying
intersections in the challenges and solutions which cut across musical
areas. In finding common approaches and coordination, SAAM will set the
research agenda for advancing the development of semantic applications
for audio and music.
Submission deadline EXTENDED to: Thursday, 24 May, 2018 (23:59 UTC-11)
(see IMPORTANT DATES below)
Workshop web site: <http://saam.semanticmedia.ac.uk/>
Submissions via: <https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saam2018>
Contact: saam2018@easychair.org
The workshop proceedings will be made available in the ACM Digital
Library.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
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Music provides a fascinating and challenging field for the application
of Semantic Web technologies. Music is culture. Yet as knowledge, music
takes fundamentally different forms: as digital audio waveforms
recording a performance (e.g. MP3); symbolic notation prescribing a
work (scores, Music Encoding Initiative); instructions for synthesising
or manipulating sounds (MIDI, Digital Audio Workstations); catalogues
of performance or thematic aggregations (playlists, setlists);
psychological responses to listening; and as an experienced and
interpretable art form. How can these heterogeneous structures be
linked to each other? To what end? How do we study these materials? Can
computational and knowledge management analyses yield insight within
and across musics? Semantic Web technologies have been applied to these
challenges -- across industry, memory institutions and academia -- but
with results reported to conferences representing the communities of
different disciplines of musical study.
The workshop will bring together established members of the Music
Informatics and ISWC communities with users, practitioners and
researchers beyond its normal boundaries. SAAM will encourage a
multidisciplinary audience, providing attendees with the opportunity of
learning about the needs and experiences of these users. Conversely,
music specialists will be availed of the latest developments in the
Semantic Web, and how they can be applied to their work. SAAM also
invites the wider community to discover “what makes music interesting!”
TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to:
Consuming and exploiting music and media data on the Semantic Web
* Music recommender systems using Semantic Web data
* Visualisations of music and time-based media using Semantic Web
data
* Semantic Web-based automation in content management, distribution,
archiving and curation
* Emerging interchange standards using Semantic Web technologies
(e.g. IIIF AV)
* Music and media content resolution
* Semantic Web in musicology
* Sonification and composition techniques in the context of the
Semantic Web
Producing and publishing music and media-related data on the Semantic
Web
* Annotations, ground truth collections and crowd-sourcing for music
and media collections
* Uniquely identifying music resources on the Web
* Automatic interlinking of music- and media-related datasets
* Learning ontologies and structured music data from Web mining
* Publishing the results of content-based analysis on the Semantic
Web
* Semantic Web technologies in the recording studio
* Capturing annotations at source in composition and performance
Managing music and media-related data
* Management of music libraries, archives and digital collections
* Managing music analysis services and workflows
* Semantic Web services for music and media processing, rights,
policies, payment
* Preserving Semantic Web data through remixing and re-use
* End-to-end semantic flows throughout the music creation and
interpretation lifecycle
Modelling music and media-related data
* Music and media metadata, from production to personal applications
* Ontologies and knowledge representation for the music and time-
based media domains
* Representations for time-based navigation e.g. musical and
narrative structures
SUBMISSIONS
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SAAM invites short, long, and challenge paper submissions. Papers will
be peer reviewed by 2-3 members of the programme committee following a
single-blind review process. Please produce your paper using the ACM
template and submit it to SAAM on EasyChair by 18th May 2018 (see
IMPORTANT DATES).
SUBMISSION FORMATS
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*Full papers* (maximum 8 pages plus references) should report on
substantially complete and mature work, or efforts that have reached an
important milestone. *Short papers* (maximum 4 pages plus references)
may highlight demonstrators or preliminary results to bring them to the
community’s attention, or present emerging technologies and approaches
as position papers. For both full and short papers, we encourage
submissions which report the practical application of semantic
technologies to the audio and music domain, and for which demonstrators
can be shown during presentation of the paper at the workshop. We also
encourage sharing of demonstrators amongst participants during the
workshop coffee break.
Accepted full and short papers will be included directly in the
workshop proceedings to be published in the ACM ICPS, and presented at
the workshop.
*Music and Audio Applications Challenge papers* (maximum 1 page plus
references), henceforth ‘Challenge papers’, encourage the attendance
and engagement of users (or potential users) of Semantic Web
technologies through music and audio applications. Challenge papers
should take the form of an extended abstract or short position paper
reporting or motivating a specific problem, use case, or application.
Challenge papers need not report a completed implementation or
evaluation, and may be illustrative or speculative in proposing an
application of semantic technology from the perspective of a clearly
articulated user need.
Accepted Challenge papers will be incorporated within a single
consolidated article, edited by the chairs, and included in the
workshop proceedings. Challenge papers will be presented as short
pitches, followed by collective discussion, within a dedicated session
at the workshop.
Summary of submission lengths (details above):
* Long papers: up to 8 pages (excluding references),
* Short papers: up to 4 pages (excluding references),
* Challenge papers: 1 page extended abstracts (excluding
references).
All submitted papers must:
* be written in English;
* contain author names, affiliations and e-mail addresses;
* be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template,
using 9pt Type 1 font;
* be in PDF format (please ensure that the PDF can be viewed on any
platform) and formatted for A4 size.
It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure that their submissions
adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply
with the above requirements may be rejected without review. Please note
that at least one author from each accepted paper must attend the
workshop to present their work, and must be registered by 29th June
2018 (see IMPORTANT DATES).
ACM template: <https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>
Submissions: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saam2018>
Contact email: saam2018@easychair.org
The workshop proceedings will be published in the ACM ICPS and will be
made available in the ACM Digital Library. Please use the ‘ACM SigConf’
version of the ‘2017 ACM Master Article Template’ – for MS Word (Mac
and Windows versions are available), please use the ACM_SigConf
template from the master for LaTeX (version 1.50), and see
sample-sigconf.tex
IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission deadline EXTENDED to: Thursday, 24 May, 2018
(23:59 UTC-11)
Notification of acceptance: 27th June 2018
Registration deadline for one author per accepted paper: 29th June 2018
Camera ready submission deadline: 24th July 2018
Workshop: 9th October 2018
WORKSHOP ORGANISATION
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Programme chairs
Sean Bechhofer, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester
George Fazekas, Centre for Digital Music (C4DM), Queen Mary University
of London (QMUL)
Kevin Page, Oxford e-Research Centre, Dept. Engineering Science,
University of Oxford
Organising Committee members
Miguel Ceriani (Website Chair)
David Weigl (Publicity and Proceedings Chair)
Programme Committee
Alessandro Adamou, Insight Centre
Miguel Ceriani, Queen Mary University of London
Mathieu d'Aquin, Insight Centre
David De Roure, University of Oxford
Alan Dix, University of Birmingham
Stephen Downie, University of Illinois
Frederic Font, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Nick Gibbins, University of Southampton
Andrew Hankinson, Bodleian Libraries
Kevin Kishimoto, Stanford University Libraries
Graham Klyne, University of Oxford
David Lewis, University of Oxford
Pasquale Lisena, EURECOM
Albert Meroño Peñuela, VU Amsterdam
Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller, Australian National University
Mark Sandler, Queen Mary University of London
Stefan Schlobach, VU Amsterdam
Xavier Serra, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Florian Thalmann, Queen Mary University of London
Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM
Ruben Verbough, ID Lab
David Weigl, University of Oxford
Tillman Weyde, City University of London
Thomas Wilmering, Queen Mary University of London
Received on Monday, 14 May 2018 15:52:19 UTC