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Digital Media Design

Music and Performance Technology

Jim Buckley

jim.buckley@ul.ie

CS1-031

(21)3531

Directed Study (CS4042 – CS4032)

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Labs: Current Status• The agenda: Why? (based on what? / how?)

• Had first practical:– Wordpress;

• Next week’s practical– Placing all attendees in groups;– Start you thinking about topics;– You will have a provisional topic and associated book / article for

week 4;

• It is your responsibility to be at this stage for the practical week 4. If not, you will lose 5% of the module mark and already be behind

• BUT, even if you miss this 5%, make sure to attend, to get in a group now. Otherwise you will miss 5% AND fall further behind, missing more practical marks later on.

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Resources

• Reviewed material– Books;– PhD Theses;– MSc Theses;– MSc Dissertations;– Journals;– Conferences;

• Workshops:• Other material:

– Web pages; – YouTube;– Company material;

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Books

• General overview of area (possibly in one chapter)

• Books generally assessed by publishers, editor;• Sometimes peer-reviewed - particularly edited

books• Generally trusted;• Provides a framework from where you can then

go deep, using other academic articles (journal, conference and workshop articles);

• Library Catalogue

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Theses

• 3 types:– PhD: detailed, novel research – typically very specific– MSc by Research: Not quite so detailed, not quite so novel

research– MSc Dissertation: Really a stepping stone to academic

research.

• Relevance– Reviewed by supervisor and external examiners;– All 3 have good state of the art chapters. For more specific

detail, go to the PhDs, for more general, less specific / deep, go to MSc dissertations;

• Where in library?

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Journals

What are Journals?

• Individual papers are heavily peer-reviewed by a number of experts, over a period of years sometimes;

• The reviewers have final sign-off

• Journal papers are accepted as a valid source of ESTABLISHED research output

• Typically very specific, but you can get review articles and/or specifics on your topics

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Journals availability in Library

• Journals section of the library system;

• Database section of library system;

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Conferences

• Conference papers are normally peer-reviewed by a number of people (particularly sources such as IEEE)

• Once off review and no final sign off.• Conference papers are accepted as a valid

source of research findings: Not quite as established as journals (on average), slightly more contemporary.

• Databases / Databases by Subject

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Workshops

• More cutting edge

• Less established: well based ideas as important as rigorous evidence

• Once off review and no final sign off.

• Valid source of research ideas and preliminary findings: more contemporary.

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Other Techniques / Tools

– Finding feed-on articles;• References;• Google scholar (http://scholar.google.com/);• ISI Web of knowledge (from the library

database page – generate citation map);

– Filtering:• Abstracting;• So, failing that, introduction, conclusion;

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A Process for Beginning Research

Suggested Overall Process:

– Use a book / Book chapter as a basis

• Gives you overview• Gives you structure• Gives you places you would like to find out more;

– Find other papers that tell you more;

– Slot them into that structure

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When Bugs Sing

• All about academic reading:

• Article and handout sheet attached;

• Spend 1 hour looking over this in advance of the lab:

– They to summarize it;– Think about its structure;– What does it make you want to know more about?