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ISMIR 2004
5th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval
Audiovisual Institute, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
October 10-14, 2004
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).
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