Digital Libraries for Musicology 2026 Programme

Programme 2026

Papers

Session 1
Short Paper Facilitating Access to LinkedMusic with SESEMMI: Converting Natural Language Queries to SPARQL with Large Language Models Liam Pond (McGill University, Canada), Sichen Meng (McGill University, Canada), Linnea Kirby (McGill University, Canada), Sebastien Chow (McGill University, Canada), Simon Ngassam (McGill University, Canada), Dylan Hillerbrand (McGill University, Canada), Ichiro Fujinaga (McGill University, Canada)
Long Paper Multimodal Large Language Model-Assisted Metadata Extraction from Historical Concert Programmes (1872–1928) Sebastian Eck (University of Oxford, UK), Kevin Page (University of Oxford, UK)
Short Paper From Field to Archive: A Preservation-Centered Workflow for Multimodal Music Collections Xiner Chen (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE), Juan Sierra (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE), Rebecca Pittam (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE), Brad Bauer (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE), Carlos Guedes (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE)
IAML Respondent Kimmy Szeto (Baruch College, USA)
Session 2
Long Paper Mapping the space of harmonic cadences between Brazilian choro, jazz and Anglophone popular music Mauro Orsini Windholz (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany), Fabian Moss (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany)
Long Paper A Rāga Independent Encoder for Svara Representation in Carnatic Music Vivek Vijayan (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain), Thomas Nuttall (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain), Xavier Serra (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Long Paper Boundary Characteristics of Sancara Segments in Carnatic Music Thomas Nuttall (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain), Brindha Manickavasakan (Independent Researcher, India),  Xavier Serra (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain), Lara Pearson (University of Cologne, Germany)
Session 3
Long Paper Encoding polymeter: A corpus of Hugo Distler’s «Der Jahrkreis» op. 5 in different symbolic formats Lucas Hofmann (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany), Craig Sapp (Stanford University, USA), Fabian Moss (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany)
Short Paper Bridging Piano Pedagogy and Digital Music Libraries Hyae-jin Hwang (Southern Methodist University, USA), Synae Yoon (Southern Methodist University, USA)
Short Paper Beyond Rules: Towards Basso Continuo Personal Style Identification Adam Štefunko (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Short Paper A model for an interactive digital critical edition of Italian 19th-century opera Francesco Maccarini (Università di Pavia, Italy), Candida Billie Mantica (Università di Pavia, Italy), Giovanni Meriani (Università di Pavia, Italy), Mark Saccomano (Paderborn University, Germany)
Session 4
Long Paper The CollabScore Dataset - Towards Robust and Generalized OMR Evaluation Philippe Rigaux (CNAM, France), Bertrand Couasnon (IRISA, France), Christophe Guillotel-Nothmann (IReMus/CNRS, Rance), Fabien Guilloux (IReMus/CNRS, France), Aurélie Lemaitre (IRISA/University of Rennes, France)
Long Paper A Timed Petri Net Model and Renderer for Typesetting Pre-Mensural Polyphony Joshua Stutter (Newcastle University, UK)
Long Paper 'Building' or 'Bullshit'? AI-assisted Making and the EUYO Concert Explorer Chanda VanderHart (University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria), David Weigl (mdw--University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria), Werner Goebl (mdw--University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria)

 

Posters 


Computational approaches to medieval polyphony: tools and workflows developed within REIMAGE Antonio Constenla (Haute école de musique de Genève-Neuchâtel (HES-SO))*; Niels Berentsen (Haute école de musique de Genève-Neuchâtel (HES-SO))
A Flexible System for Collecting and Organizing Ethnomusicological Research Metadata Ewa Łukasik (Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology); Arleta Nawrocka-Wysocka (Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences); Magdalena Chudy (Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences)*
Towards automated transcription of Hardanger fiddle performances Olivier Lartillot (RITMO, University of Oslo)*; Lars Løberg Monstad (Bots for Music)
PAM: Plainchant Analyser for MEI Neumes Martha Thomae Elías (NOVA University of Lisbon)*; Elsa De Luca (NOVA University of Lisbon)
Language-Augmented Soundsketcher: Semantic Enrichment of Perceptual Audio Representations Konstantinos Velenis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)*; Asterios Zacharakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki); Emilios Cambouropoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Modular development. What’s new on the Joachim Raff Archive’s online portal Severin Kolb (Joachim-Raff-Archiv)*; Stefan König (Max-Reger-Institut, Karlsruhe); Dennis Ried (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
How Expert Users Judge Relevance in Chant Retrieval: A User-Centred Evaluation of Cantus Ultimus  Emma Pope (McGill University)*