Archive of Notes and Events

Announcing our first Call For Software Projects 10 May 2013

Could your research work benefit from assistance or expertise to improve its long-term sustainability and reusability?

If you're a UK-based audio/music researcher and you have a project like this, we'd love to hear from you!

Article on software development techniques to be presented in AES Rome 26 Apr 2013

We'll be presenting our most recent paper — Software Techniques for Good Practice in Audio and Music Research — at the 134th International Audio Engineering Society Convention which takes place in Rome, May 4-7.

Announcing the SoundSoftware.ac.uk Prizes for Reproducibility in Audio and Music Research 23 Apr 2013

We're proud to announce the SoundSoftware.ac.uk Prizes for Reproducibility in Audio and Music Research. These prizes' objective is to promote the development and release of sustainable and reusable software associated with published research.

Media and Arts Technology Students Software Carpentry Workshop 12 Feb 2013

We ran a 2-day Software Carpentry course for Media and Arts Technology Programme students at Queen Mary, University of London.

Notes from a Software Bootcamp at Max Planck Institute 31 Jan 2013

On the 25 and 26th of January we helped to organise another Software Carpentry workshop. This workshop was held on the Tuebingen Campus of the Max Planck Institute, Germany.

What's the difference between Mercurial and git? 17 Jan 2013

We're occasionally asked why we chose to use Mercurial in our code hosting site, and what difference there is between Mercurial and git.

Research software development in a “post-PC” world 5 Dec 2012

How will researcher-developers be affected by a shift from traditional PCs to touch tablets using an “app store” software distribution model?

Recent conference tutorial material now available! 21 Oct 2012

Slides and handouts from our recent conference tutorials are now available on this site. If you work with audio and music research software and data, we hope you'll find something of interest here.

First Workshop on Maintainable Software Practices in e-Science 9 Oct 2012

The 1st Workshop on Maintainable Software Practices in e-Science, co-located with e-Science 2012, provides a dedicated forum to discuss new research, experiences and best practice in developing and maintaining software within an e-Science context.

ISMIR 2012 Tutorial 5 Oct 2012

We'll be conducting a tutorial at this year's edition of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference - ISMIR 2012 - which will take place in Porto, Portugal, October 8th-12th, 2012.