Executable Music Documents

David De Roure

e-Research Centre, University of Oxford@dder

• Defamiliarisation

• Execution

• Translation

The digital music research community as an exemplar of future scholarly practice.

What can we learn for Digital Libraries?

What can we learn from Digital Libraries?

A revolutionary idea…Open Science!

rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org

http://www.music-ir.org/mirex

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SocialMachine

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David D

e Roure

Big data elephant versus sense-making network?

The challenge is to foster the co-constituted socio-technical system on the right i.e. a computationally-enabled sense-making network of expertise, data, models, software, visualisations and narratives

Iain Buchan

humanas author

machineas reader

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narrative

humanas reader

narrative about

software

David De Roure

I believe that the time is ripe for significantly better documentation of programs, and that we can best achieve this by considering programs to be works of literature…

Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

Knuth, Donald E. (1984). "Literate Programming”. The Computer Journal (British Computer Society) 27 (2): 97–111.

… a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology.

The Journal of Open Research Software (JORS) features peer reviewed Software Metapapers describing research software with high reuse potential.

We are working with a number of specialist and institutional repositories to ensure that the associated software is professionally archived, preserved, and is openly available.

Equally importantly, the software and the papers will be citable, and reuse will be tracked.

http://openresearchsoftware.metajnl.com/

seasr.org/meandreMeandre

Steven Downie

Research Objects

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Social Objects

The R Dimensions

Research Objects facilitate research that is reproducible, repeatable, replicable, reusable, referenceable, retrievable, reviewable, replayable, re-interpretable, reprocessable, recomposable, reconstructable, repurposable, reliable, respectful, reputable, revealable, recoverable, restorable, reparable, refreshable?”

@dder 14 April 2014

sci method

access

understand

new use

social

curation

Research Object

Principles

Notifications and automatic re-runs

Machines are users too

AutonomicCuration

Self-repair

New research?

David De Roure

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stacks_in_Michigan_State_University_library.JPG

Executable Documents

consume

produce

composeperformcapture

distribute

Steve Benfordplus curation, preservation, …

Digital Music Object

Mark Sandler

Fusing Audioand Semantic Technologies for Intelligent Music Production and Consumption

Future of Research Communicationand e-Scholarship

end to end digital systems

research objects

PI: Mark Sandler

• Will digital libraries provide the infrastructure to execute documents, or will people deploy them on alternative infrastructures? What are the implications for discovery, curation, and its automation?

• Who gains credit and owns the intellectual property generated when a document runs automatically? Who is liable for damage that arises? What are the implications of unintended or accidental assembly of research methods and outcomes?

• What are the implications of research that occurs at very high speed, possibly speculatively, without human intervention? Where is the (critical, creative, subversive) human in the loop? Are we ‘burning’ research methods into an automated research platform?

• How do executable documents sit in the social websites of discovery, authoring, publishing and sharing; i.e. the ecosystem of scholarly social machines?

David De Roure

Scholarly practice is changing

profoundly as we embrace new

methods of digital research and

engage society.

Our centuries-old research

communication practices

that underpin scholarship

are to be celebrated — but are they still fit for

their purpose?

david.deroure@oerc.ox.ac.ukwww.oerc.ox.ac.uk/people/dder

@dder

Thanks to: Tim Crawford, Stephen Downie, Ben Fields, Ichinaro Fujinaga, Steve Benford, Kevin Page, Mark Sandler, Geraint Wiggins.

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david.deroure@oerc.ox.ac.uk@dder