[linux-audio-user] Fwd: [Agnula-Users] CFC: MUSICNETWORK Open Workshop Call, Leeds, UK, September 2003

[Daniel James]

UK based linux audio people may be particularly interested in this 
event...

Daniel

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Subject: [Agnula-Users] CFC: MUSICNETWORK Open Workshop Call, Leeds, 
UK, September 2003
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 01:39:31 +0200
From: musicnetwork at violino.dsi.unifi.it
To: info at agnula.org

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 at dsi.unifi.it if you prefer to not receivie thie emails
 in the future.

cheers,
Paolo Nesi
(MUSICNETWORK, Thematic Network of the European Commission)


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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 at dsi.unifi.it within the 1st of July, 2003. The
 acceptance and the evaluation will be communicated within the 15th
 of July, 2003.


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