[Asis-l] Music IR: Two new mailing lists

[J. Stephen Downie]

Hi gang:

As part of the "International Music Information Retrieval Systems 
Evaluation Laboratory" (IMIRSEL) project, I have just set up two new 
email lists to help facilitate communications among those involved in 
establishing a TREC-like evaluation programme for Music Information 
Retrieval and Music Digital Library researchers. Background information 
on the IMIRSEL project can be found at:

"Toward the scientific evaluation of music information retrieval 
systems" http://ismir2003.ismir.net/papers/Downie.PDF


LIST #1: M2K -- mirmodules at lists.lis.uiuc.edu

This mail list is designed to facilitate communications among those 
using and contributing to the M2K (Music to Knowledge) subset of the D2K 
(Data to Knowledge) framework and toolkit. Information about D2K can be 
found at:

http://alg.ncsa.uiuc.edu/do/downloads/d2k

Subscription information is available at:

https://mail.isrl.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/mirmodules

"M2K", is the newly minted moniker for the set of MIR-specific D2K 
modules that are being developed jointly by the UIUC IMIRSEL project and 
the MIR community at large. M2K is being built to facilitate the 
efficient prototyping and evaluation of experimental MIR techniques and 
will play a pivotal role in future TREC-like MIR Evaluation eXchanges 
(MIREX). More about MIREX in a below.

Information about the role M2K/D2K will play in the evaluation programme 
can be found at:

"The International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation 
Laboratory: Governance, Access and Security"
http://tinyurl.com/4tfrf

Note: The M2K modules will be released shortly. Email me personally at 
jdownie at uiuc.edu if you are interested being notified of the official 
release details outside of the M2K list (i.e., you want to explore M2K 
but do not want to subscribe to the M2K list). The M2K modules are being 
designed to help with many different MIR/MDL tasks. Examples of some of 
the tools/functionalities that we want to build into M2K can be found at:

http://music-ir.org/evaluation/tools.html

LIST #2: MIREX -- evalfest at lists.lis.uiuc.edu

This list is designed to facilitate communications among those involved 
in planning, executing and participating in MIREX 2005. "MIREX" (Music 
Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange)* is the newly minted moniker 
for the TREC-like evaluation programme we as a MIR/MDL research 
community are setting up. This builds upon and expands the initial work 
recently done at the "Audio Description Contest" which took place during 
the 5th ISMIR Conference in Barcelona, Spain, October 10-14 2004 
(http://ismir2004.ismir.net/ISMIR_Contest.html)

If you are interested in MIR/MDL system evaluation issues and/or have 
had experience in other formal system evaluation endeavours (e.g., TREC, 
etc.) I would warmly welcome your participation.


Subscription information is available at:

https://mail.isrl.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/evalfest

*Sue Manus of the Library of Congress is to be creditted with coming up 
with the spiffiest sounding acronym. Thanks, Sue.

Cheers and thank you.

J. Stephen Downie


The IMIRSEL project is being supported by the Andrew W. Mellon 
Foundation and the National Science Foundation.
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    "Research funding makes the world a better place"
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J. Stephen Downie, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and,
Fellow, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(217) 351-5037