Archiving

The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) gathers researchers and musicians worldwide to share their knowledge and late-breaking work on new musical interface design. There are four tracks at the conference: papers, music performances, installations, and workshops. Each of these four tracks is represented in different ways, through text, audio, video, and so on. Currently, only conference papers are systematically structured and archived. This list is based on BibTeX source files hosted on GitHub. PDF files of each paper are stored on Zenodo, with proper metadata and DOIs. The challenge with this approach is that the PDFs do not allow for embedding audio and video; hence they provide a suboptimal presentation of typical NIME contributions. ...

Recently, I have been engaged in an internal discussion at the University of Oslo about our institutional web pages. This has led me to realize that a university’s web pages are yet another part of what I like to think of as an Open Research “puzzle”: Cutting down on web pages The discussion started when our university’s communication department announced that they wanted to reduce the number of web pages. One way of doing that is by unpublishing a lot of pages. So it was decided that all event pages older than three years should be removed. That may seem like a logical decision to some. After all, pages announcing activities that happened several years ago may be less relevant today. There is also evidence that these pages are not read very often. ...