Research Forum: Musicology, AI, and metadata

This second day of the Symposium on Digital and AI Musicology focuses mainly on music transcription and analysis, and the transformative potential of rich metadata.

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PROGRAM

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 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”

10:15 Tone Nøtvik Jakobsen (NRK) — Presentation cancelled

10:30* Pause

10:45* Chant and yoik analysis and transcription

Camilla Brattland (Artic University of Norway), John André Eira: Sámi yoik traditions

Dániel Péter Biró (University of Bergen) and Peter van Kranenburg (Utrecht University): Jewish and Islamic chant practices

Olivier Lartillot: Computational transcription of chant and yoik

Discussion

12:00 Lunch

12:45 Music analysis

Anja Volk (Utrecht University, Netherlands): Music similarity in the Dutch Song Database

David Meredith (Aalborg University, Denmark): A general framework and algorithms for transformed pattern matching in music

Olivier Lartillot: Intensive/extensive music analysis and identification

14:00 Pause

14:15 Music and linked open data (metadata, semantic web, ontologies, authority data, search services, etc.)

Augustin Braud (CNRS, France): musica*, a French consortium on digital musicology

Kristina Richts-Matthaei and Alexandra Büttner (Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, Germany): NFDI4Culture, a German consortium for research data on material and immaterial cultural heritage

Martha Stellmacher (Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB), Germany): International working group on music data interoperability: between musica*, NFDI4Culture, RISM, and MishMash

15:00 Digital libraries and metadata

Thomas Bårdsen (National Library of Norway): Migration from MAVIS to Axiell Collections

Olivier Lartillot: MusikkData, a planned research infrastructure from the National Library of Norway

Troels Linde (University of Inland Norway): Digital media, AI and keeping track of our assets

Alexander Refsum Jensenius (University of Oslo): Multimodal data, metadata and paradata

Panel discussion, moderated by Alexander Refsum Jensenius

16:00 Closing words

*: or a bit earlier

Organised by Olivier Lartillot (RITMO / Department of Musicology), Pierre Beauguitte (National Library), Ingrid Romarheim Haugen (National Library), Alexander Refsum Jensenius (RITMO / Department of Musicology), and Yngvar Kjus (Department of Musicology)

Published Feb. 2, 2026 8:42 AM - Last modified Oct. 16, 2026 12:45 PM