This readme explains the process of migrating proceedings and information for ISMIR 202x conference to persistent web properties for posterity.
For any questions about these scripts (202x edition), please write to Johan Pauwels at [email protected]
The conference metadata for ISMIR needs to be generated manually and added to https://github.com/ismir/conference-archive/blob/master/database/conferences.json This file is an input to the steps that follow.
{
"conference_dates": "Month 1-31, 202x",
"conference_place": "City, Country",
"imprint_place": "City, country",
"conference_title": "International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference",
"partof_title": "Proceedings of the Nth International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference",
"publication_date": "202x-mm-dd",
"imprint_isbn": "978-1-7327299-3-3",
"doi": "10.5281/zenodo.xxxxxxxx",
"conference_acronym": "ISMIR 202x",
"conference_url": "https://ismir202x.ismir.net",
"imprint_publisher": "ISMIR",
"upload_type": "publication",
"publication_type": "conferencepaper",
"access_right": "open",
"license": "CC-BY-4.0",
"editors": [
"Some Person",
"Another Person",
]
}It is assumed that you have used the proceedings-builder repository and successfully completed all the steps described for 202x edition. We assume that the proceeding-builder repo is checked out in the same directory as this one, i.e. that its path is ../proceedings-builder when in the root of this repo.
We need the following files:
- A final JSON of proceedings metadata, generated using the proceedings builder. It will have the doi and url links empty, which will be added when we run the archiving tools below. In the scripts below, which need to be run from the root of this repo, this input JSON is stored at
../proceedings-builder/202x_Proceedings_ISMIR/metadata_final/202x_input.json - Set of final PDF files split from the full proceedings in a single folder, also generated using the proceedings builder. These files will be archived on Zenodo and a DOI will be assigned to each of them. In the steps below, this input folder with PDFs is assumed to be
../proceedings-builder/202x_Proceedings_ISMIR/split_articles/.
While the official archive of the papers is Zenodo, we also maintain an archive on archives.ismir.net for historical reasons mostly and hosting during the conference. The PDFs are usually added with the filename template: https://archives.ismir.net/ismir<year>/paper/<paperID>.pdf. Please get in touch with the ISMIR board or the ISMIR tech team to add the files to the ISMIR archive. The complete proceedings PDF also needs to be added to the archive, e.g. Full ISMIR 2021 proceedings PDF on ISMIR archive
The following steps can use the PDF files from your local computer, e.g. ../proceedings-builder/202x_Proceedings_ISMIR/split_articles/ or from the ISMIR archives https://archives.ismir.net/ismir<year>/paper/, but will read the path to the PDF from the input metadata JSON (../proceedings-builder/202x_Proceedings_ISMIR/metadata_final/202x.json) using the "ee" key. So, please ensure the key points to the right path in the input JSON before running the following steps.
The high level process is to upload each PDF to Zenodo using the Zenodo API and generate a DOI for it. With the assigned DOI, we can update metadata JSON with the DOI and Zenodo URL to generate a final metadata JSON complete in all respects. The final updated metadata JSON is then added to ../database/proceedings/202x.json for posterity.
You must set / export two environment variables for access to Zenodo;
export ZENODO_TOKEN_PROD=<PRIMARY_TOKEN>
export ZENODO_TOKEN_DEV=<SANDBOX_TOKEN>To create / retrieve a token, proceed to Zenodo's developer portal.
Zenodo provides a sandbox website that is wholly disjoint from the mainline service. We use the former for development and staging, and the latter for production. When you understand how upload works, try out with the sandbox version to familiarize yourself and check all metadata.
# Test with a run like this
$ python ./scripts/upload_to_zenodo.py \
../proceedings-builder/202x_Proceedings_ISMIR/metadata_final/202x.json \
database/conferences.json \
database/proceedings/202x.json \
--stage dev \
--verbose 50 \
--num_cpus -2 \
--max_items 2
Caveat: upload_to_zenodo.py is not very stable and please ensure you test it out thoroughly with a few files in "dev" before running it over the entire proceedings PDFs. These checks cannot be emphasized enough since we cannot delete the DOI once assigned in "prod" mode and it clutters up the Zenodo archive badly.
Once tested, upload with --stage prod and remove --max_items.
Check the output json updated with zenodo paths ../database/proceedings/202x.json and commit it to the repo (rename the file to the current year first).
Here is an example of a paper from ISMIR 2021 proceedings archived on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/record/5625696#.Yt-eu-wzb_0
Follow the same process as a single paper, but manually upload the entire proceedings PDF to Zenodo as well and add the right tags, e.g. here is the final proceedings PDF archived on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/record/5776687#.Yt-eAewzb_0
Once proceedings have been uploaded to Zenodo (and the corresponding URLs have been generated), the proceedings metadata can be exported to markdown for serving on the web, e.g. DBLP, the ISMIR homepage, etc.
For the website, we need to generate the proceedings markdown file that will then produce the page https://www.ismir.net/conferences/ismir2021.html.
To do this, run,
$ python ./scripts/export_to_markdown.py \
./database/proceedings/202x.json \
./database/conferences.json \
ismir202x.md
and then copy ismir202x.md to the ismir-home repository.
To generate DBLP metadata file to be added to DBLP database, you can run
$ python ./scripts/generate_dblp.py \
./database/conferences.json \
./database/proceedings/202x.json \
./database/proceedings/202x_dblp.xml
The result is an XML file with syntax as described on the DBLP site.
Send a pull request with the ismir202x.md to the ISMIR website repo. Then send database/proceedings/202x_dblp.xml to Meinard Müller, who has a contact at DBLP to get the proceedings added. Finally, contact the ISMIR tech team who can add the full proceedings PDF and individual paper PDF on Zenodo to the "ISMIR" community on Zenodo.
This completes the archival of proceedings for ISMIR!