This event will bring together publishers, engravers, musicologists, researchers, musicians, librarians, booksellers, lawyers, developers and educators to explore together the challenges and opportunities of digital practices in the field of music.

Over the course of a day and a half, conferences, round tables and personal testimonials will provide an overview of the issues surrounding the use, creation and distribution of digital scores. The aim of the event is to bring together all the players involved in order to establish an overview of current practices, emerging issues and current projects, while encouraging exchanges and connections between professionals in the sector. 

Topics will include music publishing, musicology, music libraries, artistic creation, technology (data management, OCR/OMR, artificial intelligence), application publishers and users.

The pre-programme below gives an overview of the topics covered. The final programme will be available online in the week of 3 February.

Pre-programme

Monday 17^th February

• 2pm-3pm
  Welcome and opening plenary session
• 3pm-6pm / Topics covered
  • The distribution of digital scores (networks, tools, economic models, etc.)
  • The use of digital scores, feedbacks (uses, equipment, apps, etc.)
  • Digital scores and libraries (storage, archiving, lending, durability, legal deposit, etc.)
  • Musicology and digital scores (standards, current projects, etc.)

Tuesday 18^th February

• 9.30am-12.30pm / Topics covered
  • The digital score and its times (environmental impact, disability, legal aspects, etc.)
  • Getting the word out (marketing, census, description, catalogue, etc.)
  • The digital score as an educational tool
  • Optical music recognition (OMR) and artificial intelligence
  • Creation and digital scores (notations, distribution, rights, publishers, etc.)
• 2pm-4.30pm
  • Summary and forward-looking round tables