Previous Unconference Topics

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Before looking forward to this year's unconference, it's worthwhile to take note of what was discussed last year in Curitiba. The following topics are reposted from the 2013 Unconference Wiki:

• Creative Applications of MIR
  
• Well-Defined Tasks and Good Datasets for Large Scale MIR
  
• Automated feature extraction over distributed datasets
  
• Digital Musicology and MIR
  
• MIR in Music Education
  
• Music Segmentation: Perception, Evaluation and Inherent Challenges
• Realizing Semantic Web Technologies in Music Digital Libraries
  

Of these topics, four short papers were produced:

• A Brief Review of Creative MIR. Eric J. Humphrey, Douglas Turnbull and Tom Collins
• Well-defined tasks and good datasets for MIR. Eric Battemberg
• Digital Musicology and MIR: Papers, Projects and Challenges. Frans Wiering and Emmanouil Benetos
• 2013 Late-break Session on Music Segmentation. Oriol Nieto and Jordan B. L. Smith
  

Additionally, the following were proposed in passing:

• Linked Data in MIR, ontologies.
  
• Increased usage of MusicBrainz (open metadata) in recent publications @ ISMIR
  
• Definition and perception of Melody in different musical cultures.
  
• What can we really learn from non-western art music traditions and apply it in Western music?
  
• Personalization, Visualization & User Experience.
  
• Journal of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (JISMIR). Selected papers of the conference (based on votes by the program committee, probably) get the chance to be extended and published at this Journal.
  

Finally, here is the 2012 Unconference Wiki.