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My profiles:

My CV [es] (a bit outdated, maybe...)

research

My research interests include:

• Music Recommendation and Discovery
• Complex Networks in Music Informatics
• Multimedia Ontologies and Semantic Web

publications

For a complete (and up-to-date) list, see my MTG publications

Pre-Thesis work (Diploma de Estudios Avanzados): "Music Recommendation: A multi-faceted approach" [en] (2006).

talks

• Indiana University (Bloomington, US): "Music Recommendation and discovery in the Long Tail" (2007)
• University of North Texas (Denton, US): "The text halo in music recommendation" (2007)
• 6th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Aguascalientes, Mexico) [en]: "Tutorial on Recommender Systems" (2007)
• ISMIR (Vienna, Austria) : "Music Recommendation Tutorial" [en], together with Paul Lamere. Slides available in PDF (2007).
• AES 122 Workshop MUSIC 2.0: Consuming and producing music in the 21st Century (Vienna, Austria) [en]: "Music Recommendation and Discovery in...which Web?". Slides available in PDF (2007).
• ESMUC. Sonology Department (Barcelona, SPAIN) [ca]: "Music Recommendation: A multifaceted approach" (2006)
• Summer School in Sound and Music Computing (Barcelona, SPAIN) [en]: "Music Recommendation", together with Marco Tiemann (2006)
• Opera Europa (Valencia, SPAIN) [en]: "Overview of the OpenDrama EU project" (2005)
• AES 25th International Audio Engineering Society, Metadata for Audio (London, UK) [en]: "Tools for Content-Based Retrieval and Transformation of Audio Using MPEG-7: The SPOff and the MDTools". Slides available in HTML (2004)
• Master en Produccio Sonora i Audio Digital (Barcelona, SPAIN): "Overview of the MPEG-7 multimedia standard" (2004)

scientific services

organisation of workshops

• AES 122 "MUSIC 2.0: Consuming and producing music in the 21st Century" (Vienna, Austria) [en], Co-organizer (2007)

programme committee

• International Workshop on Learning Semantics from Audio Signals, LSAS (2006, 2008) [en]
• 1st Workshop on Multimedia Annotation and Retrieval enabled by Shared Ontologies, MAReSO (2007) [en]
• 3rd International Conference on Semantics and digital Media Technologies, SAMT (2008) [en]

member of local organization staff

• International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2005), Barcelona, Spain, September 5-10, 2005
• International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2004) [en], Barcelona, Spain, October 10-14, 2004

reviewer

• Journals: Journal of New Music Research (ISSN 1744-5027), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (ISSN 1520-9210), ACM Transactions on Information Systems (ISSN 1046-8188), Journal of Web Semantics (ISSN 1570-8268)
• Conferences: International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), 3rd International Conference on Semantics and digital Media Technologies (SAMT), 6th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI), 16th Magnum Conference on Computing-International Conference on Computing (MAGNO-CIC), ...

projects

Things you can try:

• foafing the music : music recommendation tool
• searchsounds : music discovery on the web
• PheXist : A PHP5 class to XQuery eXist native XML:DB

EU projects I've been (and hopefully will be) involved:

• 2007-2010: Pharos [en]
• 2007-2010: Variazioni [en]
• 2004-2006: SIMAC [en]
• 2002-2004: Opendrama [en]

teaching

Department of Information and Communication Technologies [ca] of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra [ca]:

• 2001-2007: Estructures de Dades i de la Informacio II [ca]
• 2004-2005: Estructures de Dades i de la Informacio I [ca]

Masters and Postgraduate Programs in Communication and Digital Media (IUA-IDEC) [ca]:

• 2003-2006: Multimedia Oriented Programming [ca] ( some slides [es] )

brief biography

• 2000- : Researcher and project manager at the Music Technology Group (MTG) [en]
• 2001- : Teaching at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) [ca]
• 2003- : Teaching at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya [ca]
• 2004: Professor Col.laborador, from the Agencia de Qualitat Universitaria (AQUCatalunya) [ca]
• 2005: Co-founder of the BMAT company [en], a spin-off of the MTG
• 2006: Invited expert of the W3C Incubator Group - Multimedia Semantics [en]
• 2006: Won the 2nd prize of the Semantic Web Challenge [en], for the Foafing the Music system
• 2007: Research grant from the Mexican government. Invited researcher in the Computer Science Research Center (CIC) [es]
• 2007: Co-organiser of the AES 122 workshop, "MUSIC 2.0: MUSIC AND THE (SEMANTIC) WEB. Consuming and producing music in the 21st Century" [en]
• 2007: "Music Recommendation Tutorial" [en], at ISMIR 2007 [en], together with Paul Lamere

contact

LinkedIn profile

Address:
Music Technology Group (UPF)
Ocata 1, 08003
Barcelona, SPAIN.
Map

You can reach me at Desk 320 (Ocata Building, Estacio de Franca).

Email: oscar.celma _ a t _ upf.edu

Skype: oscar.celma

Tel: +34 93 542 21 99

Fax: +34 93 542 2202

oscar.celma _ a t _ upf.edu