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 - Chris - 30 mins?

#* Intro, best practices and how they hang together - feedback loops in research software

#* Readable code + Working with others

#* Version control

#* Unit testing

# Data management - Steve - 20 mins?

#* Intro, why manage data

#* The practice of it

#* Policy and principles

# Software and data licences and copyright - Chris? or merge with another section? - 10 mins?

# Open access, open publication, wrap up - Mark P - 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":/documents/40 (15 mins + questions)

* *Software*: "SoundSoftware Topics":http://soundsoftware.ac.uk/topics, particularly "Why version control?":http://soundsoftware.ac.uk/why-version-control, "What version control system should I use?":http://soundsoftware.ac.uk/version-control-what-system-to-use, "Open source software licences explained":http://soundsoftware.ac.uk/open-source-software-licences-explained, "Unit testing: Why bother?":http://soundsoftware.ac.uk/unit-testing-why-bother -- all far more verbose than we can be

* *Software*: "Software Carpentry agile development feedback loops":http://software-carpentry.org/4_0/softeng/agile/ or "here in Mike's slides":http://software-carpentry.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/carpentry-conclusions.ppt -- about different scales of changes

* *Software*: "Handout about using our code site, from SSW2012":https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/attachments/463/handout.doc

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_

** _Crib sheet for translating between version control systems_

h2. Things to remember & take

* Pop-up stand, any relevant posters etc

* For handouts, perhaps we should take PDFs and get them printed in a print shop in York rather than print here and carry them?

h2. Our plan of action

* By *Wednesday, September 5th* (SCR, 2pm, or in Mark's office?) we should be able to meet again, with slides having been prepared for the relevant sections by *Chris* and *Steve*

* *Luis* to produce handouts, 100% based on existing material, about: _Version control; why use it?_; _Software licences and copyright_; and _Project hosting recommendations_

* *Chris* to attempt a handout about _Unit testing and audio research_ -- but the slides take priority