SoundSoftware 2012 Workshop: Event Details

Event Details

Location: Queen Mary University of London (Maths Lecture Theatre)
Date: Monday 18 June 2012
Registration deadline: 11 June 2012 (now closed - please send us an email to info@soundsoftware.ac.uk in case you wish to attend but haven't registered

News

13 Jun 2012: Added information regarding the workshop venue
12 Jun 2012: Registration closed.
31 May 2012: Registration deadline extended (11 June 2012)
24 May 2012: Updated programme
2 May 2012: Registration Open (deadline: 31 May 2012)

Introduction

Software and data have increasingly become an integral part of our research in the audio and music community. In the process, the way that we do research in this field is changing, with methods and software becoming increasingly complex, and reliable datasets becoming increasingly important.

The first SoundSoftware one-day workshop on "Software and Data for Audio and Music Research" will include talks and discussions on issues such as robust software development for audio and music research, reproducible research, management of research data, and open access.

While our project is concentrating on the audio and music research community, we believe many of these issues will have wider interest, and we want to link with other communities for which proper handling of research software and data are important.

Programme

(note: this programme is still provisional: last updated 24th May.)

10:30	Registration/Coffee
11:00	Welcome and Opening Remarks
11:10	Keynote: Science as a Service: Institution as Platform Cameron Neylon (Public Library of Science)
11:50	Oral Session 1 SoundSoftware: Software Sustainability for Audio and Music Researchers Chris Cannam/Mark D. Plumbley (Queen Mary University of London/SoundSoftware.ac.uk) The Joy of Reproducibility: Three techniques for robustness and repeatability Paul Walmsley (Sibelius Team, Avid) A new approach to developing software for computational science David Gavaghan (University of Oxford)
12:50	Lunch and Networking
14:00	Oral Session 2 The development of Auditory Image software: a little history and some lessons for future systems Roy Patterson (University of Cambridge) Developing a new auditory model: lessons in version control, collaboration and engineering Thomas Walters (Google) The Tzanetakis music genre dataset: Its faults and the challenges they provide Bob L. Sturm (Aalborg University Copenhagen) Sustainable Management of Digital Music Research Data Steve Welburn (Queen Mary University of London/Sustainable Management of Digital Music Research Data)
15:20	Tea Break
15:40	Oral Session 3 Public Engagement via Software Jez Wells (The University of York) Repeat, Reuse, Remix, Reproduce David De Roure (University of Oxford) Software is not static: An Introduction to the Software Sustainability Institute Steve Crouch (Software Sustainability Institute) A Community of Developers in UK Higher Education Stimulating Innovation Mahendra Mahey (University of Bath/DevCSI)
17:00	Panel Discussion
17:30	Close*

*There will be an opportunity to continue discussions after the Workshop closes in a nearby Pub/Restaurant.

Workshop Venue

The Workshop will take place in the Maths Lecture Theater, (Mathematical Sciences building, Queen Mary University of London's Mile End campus).

Please download the following campus map (pdf), with the location of the Mathematical Sciences building.

For further information on the campus, and how to get to Queen Mary University, please follow this link: Mile End Campus.

Registration

The registration is now closed. Please send us an email (info@soundsoftware.ac.uk) in case you wish to attend but haven't registered.

Additional info

This workshop precedes the 9th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval conference (CMMR 2012, 19-24 June 2012, www.cmmr2012.eecs.qmul.ac.uk).

Support

This workshop is supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

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Recent notes

MLSP Prizes for Reproducibility: Winners announced!

Announcing the winners of the MLSP 2014 and SoundSoftware.ac.uk Prizes for Reproducibility in Signal Processing, organised by SoundSoftware.ac.uk in conjuction with the IEEE Signal Processing Society for the 2014 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing.

SoundSoftware 2014: Videos now available!

The SoundSoftware 2014 workshop, our third annual workshop on software and data in audio and music research, was just as enjoyable as the previous two. Because so much research in this field ends up being expressed through software, a software workshop turns out to be all about the means by which research becomes useful and relevant to people other than the original researchers—fertile ground for interesting and thought-provoking talks.

The workshop videos are now available online at http://soundsoftware.ac.uk/soundsoftware2014, so if you weren't able to make it in person, catch up here!

Our third annual one-day workshop on Software and Data for Audio and Music Research takes place on the 8th of July 2014 at Queen Mary, University of London. The workshop includes talks on issues such as robust software development for audio and music research, reproducible research in general, management of research data, and open access. Read more here, clear your calendar, and register now!