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This event brings together key members of the European consortium EarlyMuse, in coordination with MishMash – Centre for AI & Creativity, particularly its thematic area on cultural heritage. It presents recent work on digital archives, music information retrieval, and AI-based approaches to musicological and heritage research. Participants will also have the opportunity to engage with new and insightful reviews in computational musicology. The programme introduces and discusses a range of core technologies—including music transcription (from both score images and audio), music analysis, and the transformative potential of rich metadata—while highlighting strategies for interconnecting disparate music collections so that their metadata can meaningfully interact.
Organised by Olivier Lartillot (RITMO), Pierre Beauguitte (National Library), Ingrid Romarheim Haugen (National Library), Alexander Refsum Jensenius (RITMO), and Yngvar Kjus (Department of Musicology)
Day 1 (Monday, 8 June): Navigating our Digitized Musical Heritage
National Library of Norway, Oslo
With the increasing digitization of music materials across archives and libraries, such as scores, manuscripts, and audio recordings, new possibilities for linking, analyzing, and reusing music data are emerging. What opportunities does this create for musicologists, music performers and other users of music heritage collections?
This first day explores a range of technologies and tools in digital musicology and music heritage research. Music collections in Norway and abroad will be presented, and we will discuss how collaborations between academia and major music-collection holders can open new ways to highlight and curate our musical heritage.
| 09:30 | Coffee and welcome from Ingrid Romarheim Haugen (National Library of Norway) |
| 09:45 | Philippe Vendrix (CNRS, France — COST EarlyMuse): Musicology as data science and heritage science: presentation of a COST action report (EarlyMuse). As well as Preliminary presentation of the EarlyMuse report on Musicology and Artificial Intelligence (NEW) NEW EarlyMuse report (discussed during the presentation): Historical Musicology and European Research Infrastructures and Initiatives: A Practical Guide and Strategic Integration Framework |
| 10:45 | Pause |
| 11:00 | Collections and projects: I. A short selection from Norway and Europe
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| 12:00 | Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza and David Rizo (University of Alicante, Spain): Optical Music Recognition: Introduction (slides) |
| 12:15 | Lunch and demo sessions |
| 13:30 | Collections and projects: II. From the National Library of Norway
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| 14:30 | David Rizo and Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza (University of Alicante, Spain): Optical Music Recognition: In Depth (slides) |
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| 15:15 | Panel discussion, Frans Wiering (Utrecht University, Netherlands), Anja Volk, Emilio Ros Fabregas, Arnulf Christian Mattes. Moderated by Pierre Beauguitte (National Library of Norway) |
| 16:00 | Closing words |
Day 2 (Tuesday, 9 June, 9:00–16:00): Research Forum on Musicology, AI, and Metadata
Salen, ZEB building, Department of Musicology, University of Oslo
The second day focuses mainly on music transcription and analysis, as well as the transformative potential of rich metadata.
| 09:00 | Welcome, and presentation of MishMash, by Alexander Refsum Jensenius (University of Oslo) |
| 09:10 | Ingrid Romarheim Haugen (National Library of Norway), Arnulf Mattes, Olivier Lartillot: MishMash Work Package 6: "AI for cultural heritage" |
| 09:20 | (The YouTube recording starts from here) In Memoriam Eleanor Selfridge-Field (1940–2026) |
| 09:30 | Frans Wiering (Utrecht University): Musicology and Computing, a very short history. Followed by a brief presentation of the EarlyMuse report “Making Corpus Creation in Early Music Rewarding and Effective” Extended slideshow covering the full presentation of the history of musicology and computing |
| 10:15 | Tone Nøtvik Jakobsen (NRK) — Presentation cancelled |
| 10:30 | Pause |
| 10:45 | Chant and yoik analysis and transcription
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| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 12:45 | Music analysis
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| 14:00 | Pause |
| 14:15 | Music and linked open data (metadata, semantic web, ontologies, authority data, search services, etc.)
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| 15:00 | Digital libraries and metadata
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| 16:00 | Closing words |