I am happy to announce that tomorrow, July 2, at the IAML 2026, the annual congress of the International Association of Music Libraries, I will be contributing with two presentations:

1. A free paper with Nikos Poulakis — Finale's Coda: Digital Obsolescence and Vendor Lock-in following the Finale Discontinuation — reports on a survey of composers after the discontinuation of the Finale notation software. It looks at how much work is now held in a single proprietary format, how little is being done to preserve it, and what role music libraries might play in supporting open standards and long-term access.

2. A contribution to the round table Manuscripts of the Eastern Christian Chant Traditions: Catalogues, Metadata, Research tools (IMS Study Group "Music of the Christian East"), where I'll present https://local-liturgical-repertories.music.uoa.gr/, a digital repository for the Cretan Liturgical Repertory, containing metadata for 65 manuscripts and 3,600 compositions, and its linked-data metadata model, which connects to the wider Greek manuscript tradition.

Both, from different directions, concern the same question: how music, new and old, stays findable and usable over time.

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