Wikipedia:International Conference of Auditory Display

The International Conference of Auditory Display (ICAD) is an annual conference presented by the International Community for Auditory Display at Pennsylvania State University.

The 23rd conference will be June 20-23, 2017 and include both a workshop to learn Wikipedia and opportunities to get support for sharing auditory displays in Wikipedia articles.

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Wikipedia programs associated with the conference

ICAD Do-a-thon

See the conference proposal!.

For people not already involved with sonifications in some way, there are few opportunities to engage with the topic. With this ICAD Do-A-Thon, we want to explore ways to increase the visibility and viability of sonification on the web, e.g. by:

• making sonifications available under open licenses and in open formats, so that they can be reused in non-specialist contexts like Wikipedia pages;
• creating sonifications specifically for Wikipedia and its sister projects;
• making the source code for sonifications available in programming environments that can be readily explored by people outside the field, e.g. containerized Jupyter notebooks on the basis of open data.

We invite our community to participate in this activity. The kick-off event will be June 21st at ICAD 2017 at Penn State, but we will make it easy for anyone around the world to engage, and hope that researchers will continue to share their data, code, and sonifications more broadly based on the models we develop.

Ongoing support

Various stakeholders in the Wikipedia community wish to have ongoing collaboration with the ICAD community. Some of those groups are the following-

• Wikimedia New York City, because it is fairly close and because it already has outreach programs for the blind community. Perhaps there could be synergy between a sonification program and other programs for people with visual impairment. In 2017 one Wiki NYC program seeks to provide alt text for all images in Wikipedia
• Stony Brook University has some history of hosting Wikipedia events and also some participants in ICAD events
• Wiki meetups in Philadelphia have been presented at least monthly since 2014. This team is probably the closest support base for anyone at Penn State.
• MonthlyMusicHackathon.org is a New York City event. Wikipedians in NYC can support this if anyone in the sonification community would join.