First International Workshop on Semantic Music and Media

First International Workshop on Semantic Music and Media SMAM2013

ISWC 2013 workshop, Oct 21 - 22, 2013, Sydney, Australia

The SMAM workshop at ISWC 2013 provides a forum to explore and promote the applications of Semantic Web Technologies in the domain of music and time-based media. Emerging activities in research, development and production, driven by projects in both academia and industry, are already spanning many aspects of the creation, management, discovery, delivery and analysis of musical and media content. This workshop brings together this community to share information and practice, and especially to articulate the research agenda in Semantic Music and Media, e.g. "end-to-end semantics" through the lifecycle of digital media. This workshop aims at facilitating innovation and helping to achieve the full potential of Semantic Web in this domain, as well as informing Semantic Web research and its application to this area.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:

Consuming and exploiting music and media data on the Semantic Web

    Music recommender systems using Semantic Web data
    Visualisations of music and time-based media using Semantic Web data
    Semantic Web-based automation in content management, distribution, archiving and curation
    Music and media content resolution
    Semantic Web in musicology
    Sonification and composition techniques in the context of the Semantic Web

Producing and publishing music and media-related data on the Semantic Web

    Annotations, ground truth collections and crowd-sourcing for music and media collections
    Uniquely identifying music resources on the Web
    Automatic interlinking of music- and media- related datasets
    Learning ontologies and structured music data from Web mining
    Publishing the results of content-based analysis on the Semantic Web
    Semantic Web technologies in the recording studio
    Capturing annotations at source in composition and performance

Managing music and media-related data

    Management of libraries, archives and digital collections
    Managing music analysis services and workflows
    Semantic Web services for music and media processing, rights, policies, payment
    Preserving Semantic Web data through remixing and re-use

Modelling music and media-related data

    Music and media metadata, from production to personal applications
    Ontologies and knowledge representation for the music and time-based media domains
    Representations for time-based navigation e.g. musical and narrative structures

Organising Committee

    David De Roure, Oxford e-Research Centre, UK
    Mark Sandler, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
    Yves Raimond, BBC R&D, UK

Programme Committee

    Sebastian Ewert, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
    George Fazekas, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
    Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester, UK
    Tim Crawford, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
    J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois, US
    Daniel Alexander Smith, University of Southampton, UK
    Jin Ha Lee, University of Illinois, US
    Juan Bello, NYU, US
    Mike Jewell, University of Southampton, UK
    Geraint A. Wiggins, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
    Steve Benford, University of Nottingham, UK
    Kevin Page, Oxford University, UK
    David Bainbridge, Waikato University, NZ
    Aldo Gangemi, CNR, IT
    Hugh Glaser, Seme4, UK
    Alexandre Passant, Seevl, Ireland
    Barry Norton, Ontotext, Bulgaria