Introduction to the Special Collection "20th Anniversary of ISMIR (original) (raw)

1. A Brief Look at 20 Years of ISMIR Evolution From the International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) held in Plymouth, Massachusetts USA, in October 2000 to the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference held in Delft, The Netherlands, in November 2019, twenty annual meetings took place that have allowed MIR researchers to meet, present and exchange their ideas leading today to an MIR community and identity for more than 2000 researchers (according to the number of subscriptions to the mailing list). Not only the acronym meaning changed from symposium to conference, but also the size of its yearly conference from less than 100 researchers to more than 500. Due to ISMIR’s single track conference nature the number of accepted papers has been constant at around 100 since 2004 (solid line in Figure 1), but the number of submitted papers is now at a level of about 250 (dashed line in Figure 1). This gives an acceptance rate of about 40% at the mome...