3rd MUSICNETWORK Open Workshop

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Calendar Event: March 13, 2004 - March 14, 2004

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Dear MUSICNETWORK participant



this is a special communication dedicated to the

next Open Workshop of the MUSICNETWORK it is an

activity of the AHG of MPEG on Music Notation Requirements



http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~nesi/mpeg/MUSICNETWORK-OW-March-2004-Description-v1-4-clean.htm



3rd MUSICNETWORK Open Workshop

MPEG AHG on Music Notation Requirements

13-14 of March 2004, Munich, Germany



http://www.interactivemusicnetwork.org

http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~nesi/mpeg/ahg-mn-65-66.html



located at:

Technische Universit‰t M¸nchen, Germany: http://www.mpeg-68.de/location.php



The Open Workshop of MUSICNETWORK is at its third edition. The modeling of

music notation/representation is a complex problem. Music representation can

be used for several different purposes: entertainment, music education,

infotainment, music archiving and retrieval, music querying, music

production, music profiling, etc. In the current Internet and Multimedia age

many other applications are strongly getting the market attention and most of

them will become more diffuse of the present applications in short time. End

users have discovered the multimedia experience, and thus, the traditional

music models are going to be replaced by their integration with multimedia,

audio visual, cross media. At present, there is a lack of Music

Notation/Representation standard integrated with multimedia. The aim of this

workshop is to make a further step to arrive at standardizing a Music

Notation/Representation Model and Decoder integrated into the MPEG

environment, that presently can be regarded as the most active and powerful

set of standard formats for multimedia consumers.



This 3rd Open Workshop is collocated with the MPEG meeting which starts its

activities in the same location the following Monday. This MUSICNETWORK Open

Workshop is mainly focused at the standardization activities of MPEG and in

particular on the work performed by the AHG (Ad Hoc Group) on Music Notation

Requirements: http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~nesi/mpeg/ahg-mn-65-66.html



The Open Workshop is organized in three different activities or sub

-workshops. The contributions to the mentioned activities have to be proposed

with a short summary within the 31st of January, 2004.



The workshop goal is to arrive at finalizing a call for technology in the

MPEG standardization committee on the basis of the work performed by the AHG

and in the Open Workshop. The technical proposals received will be discussed

for their presentation and finalization at the workshop.



Music Notation/Representation and its Decoding, 13th and 14th of March



The topics of this activity are strongly related to the past activity of the

AHG on Music Notation Requirements http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~nesi/mpeg/ahg-mn-65-66.html Proposals for the workshop and thus the related discussions have to

be mainly focused on:



--Music Notation/Representation requirements

--Music Protection and Distribution

--Music Description and its usage on Archive Query



Please Contribute with your work on the above topics, for details see the www

site of the workshop:



http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~nesi/mpeg/MUSICNETWORK-OW-March-2004-Description-v1-4-clean.htm







Submission of Contributions and Proposals

Submissions of Contributions for the above described workshops and topics can

be performed in any moment within the last date of the 31st of January 2004

in their abstract and preliminary version. After that date the contributions

will be discussed and the authors will have the possibility of improving them

up to the final version that will be discussed at the workshop. We suggest to

the contributors to submit the improved version of the contributions as MPEG

contributions.



The contributions have to be sent by email to: Nesi@dsi.unifi.it



All the submissions will be published in the MUSICNETWORK web site. If you

donít accept this constraint you have to explicitly state on the document.



The MUSICNETWORK organization will invite and economically support a large

part of the experts involved in this activity according to the aims of the

Grant received from th European Commission. The selection will be performed

on the basis of the contributions and experience. The assignment of the

support will be communicated within the 10th of February, 2003.



Registrations for the activities

? The registration to the MPEG AHG mailing list (reflector) is free of

charge and can be performed by sending a request via email to

Nesi@dsi.unifi.it Please do this as soon as possible since most of the

preparatory discussions about the workshops will be performed on the AHG

mailing list.



? The registration to the MUSICNETWORK forum and activity is free of

charge and can be performed direction on the www site of the MUSICNETWORK:

http://www.interativemusicnetwork.org Most of the discussions will be

performed on the Working Group Forums in the site



? The registration to the Open Workshops in Munich is free of charge

(as to all the MUSICNETWORK workshops). Please perform the registration to

allow us to organize catering and services at the best and in advance. The

registration can be performed on the www site of the MUSICNETWORK for one or

more of the sub-Workshops. Please perform these registrations within the

deadline of the February 20. http://www.interativemusicnetwork.org



The registration to the Open Workshops does not include the registration to

the MPEG meeting, which is regulated by the MPEG:

http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/, http://mpeg.nist.gov/, and

In more details: http://www.mpeg-68.de/reg.php



Accommodation

The accommodation has to be performed by each single participant. The list of

hotel is reported in the next www page:

http://www.mpeg-68.de/hotel.php