UK based linux audio people may be particularly interested in this event... Daniel ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [Agnula-Users] CFC: MUSICNETWORK Open Workshop Call, Leeds, UK, September 2003 Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 01:39:31 +0200 From: musicnetwork@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: info@xxxxxxxxxx As promised to most of you, we are trying to organise the Second Open workshop of MUSICNETWORK Thematic Network of the European Commission. A service to put together industrial and research communities. http://www.interactivemusicnetwork.org I hope that you can contribute with your valuable activity at the workshop. See in the Following the Call for Contributions. The workshop will be partially overlapped with the WEDELMUSIC conference mainly focussed on research aspects and multimedia, DRM technologies http://www.wedelmusic.org/wedelmusic2003/index.html Specific workshops are going to be organised as additional events. Send an email back with a REMOVE in the subject to musicnetwork@xxxxxxxxxxxx if you prefer to not receivie thie emails in the future. cheers, Paolo Nesi (MUSICNETWORK, Thematic Network of the European Commission) .-.-.-.-.-.-.ò-ò-ò-ò-ò-ò-.-.-.-.-.-ò-ò-ò-ò-ò-.-.-.-.-.-ò-ò-ò-ò-ò- CALL for CONTRIBUTIONS Second MUSICNETWORK Open Workshop University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 17-18 September, 2003, Open to all http://www.interactivemusicnetwork.org Solutions for Music Distribution and Fruition: Two days dedicated to the emerging applications for Music: on the www, multimedia integration and mobile. Tutorials, Products, Best practices, Case Studies and Innovative Applications. The main theme of the Second MUSICNETWORK workshop is dedicated to the state of the art and the identification of the future trends in music. on the WWW, multimedia integration and mobile. The Open Workshop is free, no registration fee is requested to attend the sections of the Workshop. A preliminary registration will be requested to have an estimation of the number of registered people. The workshop is economically supported by the European Commission with the MUSICNETWORK project. The MUSICNETWORK will give space to industries, experts, professionals and research institutions that are working in this sector to present their work in an open environment in which the innovation will be promoted with benefits for all the community. To this end, a set of calls have been opened as described in the following. Deadline for the submission is the 1st of July 2003 according to the following descriptions. *+****+Call for Tutorial*+****+ Tutorial proposals have to be presented as 2-3 pages description including: description of the tutorial, list of the tools mentioned, name and biography of the person giving the tutorial, history of the tutorial if it has been already given other times. The tutorial should be focussed on more than one product and should give a general view of the problems of the topic. The tutorials have to be of 45 minutes and should to be focussed on the following topics: -- production of courseware and content for music education -- production of music scores for publishing -- music distribution and protection -- Standardization: MPEG, SMIL, SVG, XHTML, XML... --?. *+****+Call for Products & Best Practices*+****+ Product presentations have to be proposed as 1-2 pages description as a flyer with possibly a demo to be uploaded on the MUSICNETWORK www site. In addition, it is requested to know: name and biography of the person giving the presentation, material distributed during the workshop, number of customers using the products and a description of its diffusion. The presentation has to be focussed on a general view of the product, architecture, format, most important features, future developments and evolutions, integration and interoperability aspects, etc. The selected Products will be entitled to use the seal "Assessed by MUSICNETWORK". The selected products will have 30 minutes of presentation and should be focussed on the following topics: -- Music educational tools -- Music sheet production tools -- Integration of Music and Multimedia tools -- Digital asset management for music and multimedia archives tools -- Music, Multimedia and Content Protection and distribution tools -- Music tools for impaired people --?. *+****+Call for Case study, Problems*+****+ The case studies have to be proposed with a simple description of the problem. They may be or not accompanied by some examples (or tools that are close to cope with them), and/or by the sketch of an ideal solution. The accepted case studies will be discussed in the Open Workshop and on the WWW site. Each accepted case study will have 10 minutes to explain the problem at the workshop to start the discussion for other 15-20 minutes. Specific experts will be invited by the MUSICNETWORK to cope with the problem explained. The presenter of the problem can even decide to remain anonymous. In that case, one of our experts will explain the problem in front of the audience. Preferred topics are: -- Music notation formats -- Multimedia and music notation -- Music recognition -- ? *+****+Call for innovative Applications with demo*+****+ Innovative applications are typically in a middle status from research work and real products. They have been probably proposed in the past as research works while they have not been supported enough to become real products. They have to be proposed as 2-3 pages description as a flyer with possibly a demo to be uploaded on the MUSICNETWORK www site. The selected Applications will be entitled to use the seal "Assessed by MUSICNETWORK". In addition, it is requested to know: name and biography of the person giving the presentation, material distributed during the workshop. Preferred topics are: -- Music notation usage -- Multimedia and music notation -- Music recognition -- ? The proposals will be assessed, voted and selected by MUSICNETWORK experts and participants. Among the selected, the best 2-3 proposals for Tutorial, Case Study Problems and innovative Applications categories will be economically supported to attend the workshop and give their presentation, while we will give space to present the results to a very large number of proposals in each category. A large visibility will be given to all proposals on the WWW site. All the proposals will be posted on the WWW site, if this is not acceptable for you please mention in the proposal and email. The documents submitted will be collected and used for creating the Proceedings distributed during the conference and via the WWW site. The selected Products and Applications will be entitled to use the seal "Assessed by MUSICNETWORK". The results of the assessment and the follow up of your presentation at the workshop will be presented on the WWW site. Submissions have to be sent via email to mailto:musicnetwork@xxxxxxxxxxxx within the 1st of July, 2003. The acceptance and the evaluation will be communicated within the 15th of July, 2003. -.-.-.-.-ò-ò-ò-ò-ò-.-.-.-.-ò-ò-ò-ò--ò-.-.-.-.-ò-ò-ò-ò-ò-.-.-.-ò-ò--ò- ò- _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.agnula.org/mailman/listinfo/users -------------------------------------------------------
