Next conferences

• ISMIR 2010, 9-13 August, 2010, Utrecht (Netherlands)
  
  
• Call for hosting future ISMIR conferences (2011 and later years)

Past conferences

• ISMIR 2009, 26-30 October 2009, Kobe (Japan)
• ISMIR 2008, 14-18 September 2008, Philadelphia (USA) [proceedings]
• ISMIR 2007, 23-30 September 2007, Vienna (Austria) [proceedings]
• ISMIR 2006, 8-12 October 2006, Victoria, BC (Canada) [proceedings]
• ISMIR 2005, 11-15 September 2005, London (UK) [proceedings]
• ISMIR 2004, 10-15 October 2004, Barcelona (Spain) [proceedings]
• ISMIR 2003, 26-30 October 2003, Baltimore, Maryland (USA) [proceedings]
• ISMIR 2002, 13-17 October 2002, Paris (France) [proceedings]
• ISMIR 2001, 15-17 October 2001, Bloomington, Indiana (USA) [proceedings]
• ISMIR 2000, 23-25 October 2000, Plymouth, Massachusetts (USA) [proceedings]

Online and paper proceedings

The cumulative list of all past papers and posters is available with direct access to the PDF file when available. The type is PAP (for refereed paper), INV (for invited paper) and POS (for poster). The thumbnails at the bottom allow one to select a list sorted by author or by year.

As of ISMIR 2003, almost all Power Point presentations are also available – see the individual conference sites to access them.

Paper proceedings may still be available for past conferences, see their individual Web sites. Information on how to buy past proceedings is available here.

The music-ir mailing list

At ISMIR 2000, the music-ir mailing-list was created, in order to allow for exchanges in the topics related to this field. As of July 2009, it had well over 1,000 subscribers from all over the world. Announcements about the conference and updates to its Web site will also be sent to this list. Archives of the list are available online to its subscribers.

To register: send the following one-line message to listserv@ircam.fr:

sub music-ir YourFirstName YourLastName

Related texts

General

• Donald Byrd and Michael Fingerhut: “The History of ISMIR – A Short Happy Tale”, D-Lib Magazine, November 2002, volume 8 number 11 (ISSN 1082-9873).
• J. Stephen Downie: “The Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX)”, D-Lib Magazine, December 2006, volume 12 number 12 (ISSN 1082-9873).

ISMIR 2005

• David Gerhard: “The 6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2005)”,Computer Music Journal, summer 2006, volume 30 Issue 2.

ISMIR 2003

• Brad Eden: “Report on the 4th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR 2003. October 26-30, 2003, Baltimore, Maryland, USA”, D-Lib Magazine, December 2003, Volume 9 Number 12 (ISSN 1082-9873).

ISMIR 2002

• Bonita Wilson: “Report on the Third International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2002): 14-17 October 2002, Paris, France”, D-Lib Magazine, November 2002, Volume 8 Number 11 (ISSN 1082-9873).
• J. Stephen Downie: “Report on ISMIR 2002 Conference Panel I: Music Information Retrieval Evaluation Frameworks”, D-Lib Magazine, November 2002, volume 8 number 11 (ISSN 1082-9873).
• Tim Crawford: “Report on ISMIR 2002 Conference Panel II: OMRAS Approach to Music Information Retrieval in the Real World”, D-Lib Magazine, November 2002, volume 8 number 11 (ISSN 1082-9873).
• Ludger Hofmann-Engl: “Report on ISMIR 2002 Conference Panel III: Similarity in Music”, D-Lib Magazine, November 2002, volume 8 number 11 (ISSN 1082-9873).

Related Web sites

• Candidate Music IR Test Collections, by Donald Byrd at Indiana University.
• CiteSeer^x, the Scientific Literature Digital Library and Search Engine (search e.g. for “music information retrieval”).
• A Personal Music IR Bibliography, by Donald Byrd at Indiana University.
• Virtual home of music information retrieval research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Related conferences

A calendar of conferences in domains related to ISMIR is available online. Its main purpose is to attempt to schedule future ISMIRs with as few conflicts as possible.

The Society

ISMIR was incorporated in Canada on July 4, 2008. It was previously run by a Steering Committee (see below).

• Letters Patent
• By-Laws

Officers

• President: J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Treasurer: George Tzanetakis, University of Victoria, Canada
• Secretary: Jin Ha Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• President-elect: Tim Crawford, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
• Members-at-large :

Members of the past ISMIR Steering Committee

• David Bainbridge, University of Waikato, New Zealand
• Donald Byrd, Indiana University, USA
• Elaine Chew, University of Southern California, USA
• Tim Crawford, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
• J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Jon Dunn, Indiana University, USA
• Michael Fingerhut, IRCAM – Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
• Ichiro Fujinaga, McGill University, Montréal, Canada
• Holger Hoos, University of British Columbia, British Columbia, CA
• Kjell Lemström, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Beth Logan, Intel Corporation
• Connie Mayer, University of Maryland, USA
• Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• George Tzanetakis, University of Victoria, Canada