ISMIR and DAFx Tutorials 2012

h1. Wiki

 * [[Abstract]] for website

h2. Topics we need to cover in the tutorial

h3. Short form, e.g. for DAFx 90-min hands-off tutorial

Title: _Pointers to more effective software and data in audio research_

See also: "DAFx2012 Workshop":/projects/soundsoftware-management/wiki/DAFx2012_Workshop in private Management wiki

# Motivation - Reproducible research

# Software practice:

#* General good-practice overview (e.g. substance related to SWC "feedback loops")

#* Version control

#* Unit testing

#* Writing readable code

#* Working with others -- code reviews, pair programming etc

# Data management

#* Why manage data ? Data as first-class research output

#* Documenting data

#* Licensing - why CC0

#* Backing up data - where ? how much ?

#* Archiving data

#* Publishing data

#* Planning data management

#* EPSRC principles

# Software and data licences and copyright

# Open access and open publication

#* Journal policies

# Wrap up: Resources to review after the tutorial, links, handouts, etc

*Timing breakdown*

# Motivation and introduction - Mark P - 15 mins?

# Software - 30 mins?

#* Intro, best practices and how they hang together

#* Version control

#* Unit testing

#* Readable code + Working with others

# Data management - 20 mins?

#* Intro, why manage data

#* The practice of it

#* Policy and principles

# Software and data licences and copyright - 10 mins?

# Open access, open publication, wrap up - 10 mins?

# Q&A - 5 mins

Total 90 mins

*Materials we already have, that we can draw from*

* *Data*: "Data management presentation from SoundSoftware 2012":/documents/51 (15 mins + questions)

* *Data*: "Wiki material about planning and applying data management":/projects/sodamat/wiki/WP1_2_Online_Training_Material

* *Data*: "Publication policies":/projects/sodamat/wiki/Publishing_research_data

* *Motivation*: "SoundSoftware presentation from SoundSoftware 2012":https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/documents/40 (15 mins + questions)

h3. Longer form, e.g. for ISMIR 3-hour hands-on tutorial

If we want to do hand-on data management, do we need a local server ? Do we use the C4DM test repository ? Would any users actually have any data to work with anyway ?

h2. Things we must make

* *Leaflets*, *handouts* etc

** _What is version control?_ and why use it?

** _Unit testing and audio software_

** _Data management and policy_

** _Software licences and copyright_