WP 4 -- Dissemination: Wiki, Publications, Conferences and Workshops
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Objectives
The goal of this work package is to maximise the impact of the project by engagement with external stakeholders via high-profile events and publications, and by a strong and up-to-date web presence.
Key specific objectives
- The dissemination of the outputs of MIReS to the widest possible range of external stakeholders
- The feedback of relevant information from external stakeholders into the project
- The establishment of strategy and appropriate dissemination paths and tools to expedite technology transfer to industry
Description of work and role of partners
Dissemination of MIR knowledge in general and of the project's activities in particular can be achieved via contributions to recognised and specialized forums, scientific contributions towards the recognition or establishment of MIR in other fields of science, or activities that foster recognition of MIR by the general public.
To ensure maximum impact, dissemination activities will commence from the beginning of the project with the establishment of the project web site and wiki, and will continue throughout the project via targeted presence at conferences, workshops and trade shows, as well as publications in academic, professional and general literature, web-based discussion forums and social networks. Our aim is to interact with the widest possible user base including: scientific researchers in MIR and complementary disciplines (see below); industry (e.g. media, entertainment, mobile communications, audio engineering); culture (e.g. composers, performers, promoters); government (policy makers and funding bodies); and the general public (e.g. schools, music lovers). Via this interaction, we aim to promote a general understanding of the state-of-the-art in MIR, encourage the use of MIR tools, engage stakeholders in discussion regarding the future of MIR (see WP2,3,5), and align future MIR research with the needs of the industry (see WP6).
The expected results of this WP are:
- High visibility of the project throughout its duration and beyond
- Online availability of full project documentation
- Feedback and insights for the Roadmap, drawn from interaction with external research and industrial stakeholders
- A broadening of the scope of MIR research, following on from point (3) above
- Networking and community building between partners and external stakeholders
Task 4.1 Web Presence
The project web site will be live from the beginning of the project and will act as both the communications hub of the project and the outward facing public dissemination channel for all project activities. Thorough documentation, the use of standard cooperative development tools and active user-group interaction are considered key factors for the effective dissemination of the project. Therefore complete documentation of all project outputs in various formats will be freely available online, including proceedings and reports from the activities outlined in other WPs. In addition, user groups, mailing lists and other forms of interaction will be created and actively maintained in order to promote external contributions. Internally, the wiki shall function as the platform for development of the Roadmap (WP3).
In line with its obligations regarding dissemination of results and achievements, the Co-ordinator (UPF-MTG)insures that all public documents (including, but not restricted to, the following material: video material covering experiments, trials; animations of "real-time" simulation results; presentations, animated/voice-over or not; promotional material (leaflets, posters, etc.); press releases etc.) generated by the project will be available for download in the project official website during and until all the final administrative procedures are completed and the project is closed. In addition, all project related dissemination activities undertaken by MIReS partners, individually or jointly, will explicitly acknowledge the project and the European Commission's FP7.
Partners involved: QMUL overall coordination; all partners contribute content
Task 4.2 Outreach Events and Publications
MIReS will not seek to establish a new conference or workshop in competition with existing meetings, but rather will take advantage of existing conferences, networks and professional bodies, such as the European initiatives SMC, DAFx and CMMR, and international conferences hosted periodically in Europe such as ISMIR, ICMC and ICASSP. We will also target events which currently have little or no MIR presence, including conferences in fields such as neuroscience (NIPS), music psychology (ICMPC), musicology (IMS), artificial intelligence (IJCAI, ECAI, AAAI), machine learning (ICML), digital libraries (ECDL), web science (ICWS), information retrieval (SIGIR, ECIR), speech (Interspeech), video & multimedia (ACMMM, ICME, ICMR), digital arts (ARTECH), and audio engineering (AES) conferences; trade shows such as MIDEM, SanFranMusicTech, Sonar, Popkomm, and Music 4.5; and Commission showcases such as ICT2012 in Brussels. Through involvement in MPEG meetings, we will influence industry standards to facilitate the incorporation of MIR technologies in next generation systems. Each partner will target one new "outreach" conference/event from those listed, to be agreed upon at the project kickoff meeting. It is not expected all partners attend all events. In addition, we will aim at disseminating the activities of the project in national media (press, radio, TV, etc.) and general literature such as the "Audio!" magazine for teenagers (www.audio4fn.org).
The core events (in conjunction with which QMUL will organise project events and meetings) are:
- ISMIR (hosted in 2012 by INESC PORTO);
- SMC (Denmark, 2012);
- CMMR (hosted in 2012 by QMUL).
For dissemination to related research communities, MIReS project will also take advantage of existing regular activity of partners at the following conferences: ICASSP, AES (QMUL); IJCAI, ECAI (OSGK-OFAI); ICMC (UPF-MTG). The consortium will also contribute to the EU Concertation Meetings through sessions and active participation in the Media Search Cluster. Dissemination will be achieved through special sessions organised for the EU Networked Electronic Media annual event (see WP5, Task 5.3). The consortium will disseminate through specialized music social networks covering more industrial social networks such as Last.fm, in conjunction with the MIReS External Advisor Mark Levy, Research Engineer and MIR expert at Last.fm (see B2.1.6) as well as more academic social networks such as The Freesound Project (http://www.freesound.org) lead by consortium coordinator UPF-MTG.
Our methodology will be to propose workshops and special sessions/tracks at conferences, in order to promote the state-of-the-art in MIR (to non-MIR audiences) and the progress of the Roadmap (to MIR-related audiences). For the latter we will particularly favour formats which encourage discussion and debate (panel sessions, round tables, etc.) such as ISMIR's Future of MIR session (see WP5). We will also work on editing special issues of recognized scholarly journals and magazines in the above fields of science related to MIR research. On the one hand, we aim to attract specialists from other fields who perhaps have never considered the application of their techniques to MIR, and at the same time broaden the application of MIR techniques to similar problems in other domains.
On the other hand specialised MIR workshops will address the key thematic areas of MIR and feed directly into the Roadmap (WP3), and thus are one of the core project activities. The proceedings of these workshops will be made available on the project web site and constitute a deliverable of the project (D4.2). Finally, industrially focussed instructional/demonstrative workshops will be organised with relevant industry enterprises to promote rapid technology transfer.
Partners involved: QMUL overall coordination; all partners involved in dissemination activities
Task 4.3 Coordination with other initiatives existing in the field
MIReS will coordinate with other initiatives existing in the field such as the collaborative Future Internet Portal (http://www.future-internet.eu/home.html), CHORUS+ project and Sounds of Europe project (where UPF-MTG is partner) granted by the EC Culture Programme 2007-2013.
The MIReS project will actively participate in the activities organised at programme level relating to the Networked Media and Search Systems area with the objective of providing input towards common activities and receiving feedback (e.g. from clusters and coordination groups), offering advice and guidance and receiving information relating to ICT programme implementation, standards, policy and regulatory activities, national or international initiatives, etc. The MIReS partners will also commit themselves to support the organisation of an annual conference of the Networked and Electronic Media constituency if requested by the EC, by providing papers, participating in technical programme committee, chairing sessions, etc.
Partners involved: QMUL overall coordination; all partners involved in dissemination activities
Deliverables
Deliverable 4.1: Web site and wiki active
Web site and wiki active [month 1]
Deliverable 4.2: Intermediate version of MIReS scientific collection
Intermediary version of collected proceedings of workshops, special sessions, tutorials and scientific publications produced [month 9]
Deliverable 4.3: Final version of MIReS scientific collection
Final version of collected proceedings of workshops, special sessions, tutorials and scientific publications produced [month 18]
