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1) Sound Savings: Preserving Audio Collections. Austin, Texas 2) Society for Scholarly Publishing 25th Annual Meeting: 'Navigating Change' 3) ISMIR 2003 - 4th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval *************************************************** 1) SOUND SAVINGS: PRESERVING AUDIO COLLECTIONS Austin, Texas July 24-26, 2003 <http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~soundsavings> Realizing the growing need for a forum on audio preservation, the Preservation and Conservation Studies program of the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, the Library of Congress Preservation Directorate, the National Recording Preservation Board, and the Association of Research Libraries are co-sponsoring "Sound Savings: Preserving Audio Collections." The symposium will be held Austin, Texas, on July 24-26, 2003. The two-and-a-half-day program will be held in the newly renovated Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center on the UT-Austin campus. "Sound Savings" will feature talks by experts in the field of audio preservation on topics ranging from assessing the preservation needs of audio collections to creating, preserving, and making publicly available digitally reformatted audio recordings. In addition to the formal presentations, breakout sessions will allow the conference participants to discuss the topics and share their experiences. For more information and to register, please visit <http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~soundsavings>. NOTE: Early bird registration ends APRIL 22! *************************************************** 2) Society for Scholarly Publishing 25th Annual Meeting: 'Navigating Change' May 28-30, 2003. Hyatt Regency Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland The challenge facing publishers and librarians today is how to deliver content to their users in a world where the rules are changing faster than the content can be converted to electronic form. The sessions planned for the 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing are designed to address the issues confronting publishers and affecting libraries. We invite you to join us (Click here for full details and online registration.) to explore and discuss ways that enable you to meet your users' need for access to information within constricted budgets. The program offers a blend of tools, experience and technology that will provide you with new answers and with key questions, leaving you better equipped to deal with the decisions on your desk today. http://www.sspnet.org/ **************************************************** 3) ISMIR 2003 - 4th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval http://ismir2003.ismir.net/ October 26-30, 2003 Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., USA and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Call for Papers, Posters, Tutorials, Panels and Exhibits The annual ISMIR Conference is the first established international forum for those involved in work on accessing digital musical materials. It reflects the tremendous growth of music-related data available either locally or remotely through networks and the consequent need to search this content and retrieve music and musical information efficiently and effectively. This area presents vast challenges for those who need to organize and structure musical data, provide tools to search and retrieve, and use these tools efficiently. Music representation needs to be multi- dimensional and time-dependent; audio data is voluminous, requiring particular care in storage and transmission while preserving quality; the need for descriptive information about what is musically significant addresses a large spectrum of internal and external characteristics, from acoustic to musicological and cultural features; intellectual property rights issues (about what can be made available to whom and how) are complex, involve a variety of individuals and organizations, and vary from country to country. All of these concerns are of interest to education, academia, entertainment and industry. This conference thus aims at providing a place for the exchange of news, issues and results, by bringing together researchers and developers, educators and librarians, students and professional users, working in fields that contribute significantly to this multidisciplinary domain, to present original theoretical or practical work in peer-reviewed contributions (papers, posters). It will also serve as a discussion forum (panels), provide introductory and in-depth information in specific domains (tutorials), and show current products (exhibits). Detailed information about the conference and its organization is available on its Web site (http://ismir2003.ismir.net/). General information on the conference is available on its Web site (http://ismir2003.ismir.net/) and will be regularly posted in the music-ir mailing list (information on subscription available on the conference site). * NEW INFORMATION: To submit, send your paper as an uncompressed PDF file (strongly preferred) or MS Word to the web-based paper submission system, accessible at the following URL: http://reg.ismir2003.dkc.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/conference/conf. To use the form, authors must register and obtain a password. Once an account is created, papers and posters may then be submitted. Revisions are accepted until the deadline. * Submissions must be received by April 25, 2003. * Authors will be notified about the acceptance of their submissions by June 27, 2003. * Accepted papers will be allocated up to 8 pages in the ISMIR 2003 proceedings and 25min presentation time at the ISMIR 2003 conference. * Authors of accepted papers will be asked to provide camera-ready copies of their papers that are formatted according to a template that will be made available to them with the notification of acceptance. * For each accepted paper, at least one author has to register for the ISMIR 2003 conference.