In association with the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference, 21-25 September, 2025.
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.
LOCATION, COLLABORATION
DLfM 2025 will take place on 26 September, 2025 at Sogang University, Seoul, following ISMIR 2025 also taking place in South Korea.
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).
Further details on how to contribute to DLfM 2025 will be announced at this web address in due course.
BACKGROUND
While Digital Libraries have long offered facilities to provide multimedia content, the requirements of systems for library music are complex. The many forms taken by musical data, the needs for connections between these, and the importance of scholarly and historical contextual information all require special care to support meaningful engagement with the materials.
The 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. This includes Music Digital Library systems, their application and use in musicology, technologies for enhanced access and organisation of musics in Digital Libraries, bibliographic and metadata for music, intersections with music Linked Data, and the challenges of working with the multiple representations of music across large-scale digital collections such as the Internet Archive and HathiTrust.
DLfM focuses on the implications of music for Digital Libraries and Digital Libraries research, especially when pushing the boundaries of contemporary musicology through the application of techniques from more technology-oriented fora such as ISMIR and ICMC. This instalment of DLfM conference follows previous conferences in Stellenbosch, Milan, Prague, Montreal, The Hague, Paris, New York, Shanghai, Knoxville and London.
DLfM partners with IAML, ISMIR, and other conferences to encourage new collaborations and discussions surrounding prominent issues in our shared field.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
Programme Chair
Elsa De Luca, NOVA University Lisbon
General Chair
David M. Weigl, mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Proceedings Chair
Juan Carlos Martínez-Sevilla, Universidad de Alicante
Local Chair
Dasaem Jeong, Sogang University
Programme Committee
TBA
