Open call for a special issue on “Digital Philology for Multimedia Cultural Heritage” to appear on the International Journal of New Music Research (deadline October 2017).

The volume will be divided in two sections:

• Section 1 – Theoretical papers presenting the open problems related to “digital philology” (authenticity, accuracy, reliability and trustworthiness of digital objects), focusing on the preservation and restoration of musical and multimedia works.
• Section 2 – Reports, experiences, contributions, and reflections from the main sound archives that currently are engaged in preservation projects or have considered the issue of digital philology.

As the subject is cross-disciplinary par excellence, the papers may represent a variety of theoretical perspectives and different methodological approaches. We encourage submissions examining all areas of active and passive preservation and restoration of audio/multimedia documents, in particular:

• Digital philology: new concepts, methods and tools;
• Preservation of audio documents: principles, guidelines, approaches, reflections;
• Preservation of multimedia documents: challenges and possibilities;
• Preservation of interactive (art)works;
• Audio signal restoration;
• Digital representation of human-machine interaction;
• Computational paradigms for audio archives;
• Music information retrieval;
• Metadata in audio/multimedia archives;
• Copyright and privacy issues in preservation and distribution;
• Studio reports from the main audio/multimedia archives involved in original preservation projects.

The papers must be submitted following the guidelines detailed in: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journalCode=nnmr20

Authors are encouraged to submit animations, movie files, sound files or any additional information for online publication:
http://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/enhancing-your-article-with-supplemental-material/

Important dates:
– Paper submission: 1 October 2017
– Author notification: January 2018
– Final copy: May 2018
– Publication: September 2018

For more information go to explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/ah/nnmr-cfp-digital-philology-1q2017 or download the PDF

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The special issue follows two memorable editions of the International Workshop on Digital Philology for the Preservation of Multimedia Archives:

2015:
– web: http://csc.dei.unipd.it/ippsa/2015/
– photo: https://www.facebook.com/pg/CSC-Sound-and-Music-Computing-Group-1564931557116708/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1666614540281742
– video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOuwPrg1PIk

2016:
– web: http://csc.dei.unipd.it/ippsa/2016/
– photo: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.318351875209773.1073741829.188785224833106&type=1&l=9fbf7cc62b