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!!! 2.1 Documentary Monitoring : Methodology NMSAT is conceived as a historical collection and a pool of information, with a list of items chronologically classified by period and date. It offers an instantaneous perspective on the occurrence and chronological appearance of events and identified items over time. The collection has become a vast resource of references. The objective today is to open its structure in terms of navigation and participation. A collection of documents presents an hermetic and more or less linear structure comprising a list of items, which can only be updated at a given time. Our aim is to modify the intrinsic structure of NMSAT so that it becomes easily accessible to external contribution, modification, and navigation. The fact that NMSAT covers different areas of knowledge within the context of networked audio suggests the use of different approaches to accessing and navigating the database. Among these different approaches we have identified the following : Contemporary music and audio art works from a telematic and collaborative view-point; Sonic art, audio art and music systems and works in which the notions of “space” and of “place” are significant (soundwalks, soundmaps, locative sound, sound practices related to walking and ambulation, site-specific art (in-situ), phonography, field recordings, works involving inter-connected sites, etc. ) It includes significant works, events, and historical benchmarks in : digital and interactive art : net-art, telepresence art, sociological art, tactical media art, art and communication, art and transmission, variable media and so on. and in the sonic art domains: radio art, sound poetry and so on; contemporary art : conceptual art (issues of place and time), minimal and antiform art (issues of new and extra-visual perceptions), sociological art, land art and site-specific art, performance art, process art, net-art, art + com, contextual art and relational aesthetics and so on; technologies (software & hardware) : developments in the Internet and data transmission, robotics, digital music, telematics and so on; social phenomena as reviewed by sociology, philosophy and aesthetics, and related to music and art in digital context: on-line networks, broad- and narrow-casting contexts, social networking (with or without the Internet), ethno-musicology and sound anthropology and so on (Becker, 1974, 1982; see also Cristofol, 2005-2008; Joy & Argüello, 2005); *historical, modern & contemporary literature: early scientific publications, forward thinking & anticipatory literature, science fiction and so on. The methodology of monitoring is based on the use of keywords in search engines (Google, Google Scholar, In-Extenso, Citeseer, Scirus, Scitopia, FindArticles, Cybertheses, MIT OpenCourseWare, INIST-CNRS, etc.) or references and quotations from documents available on-line (websites, forums, mailing lists, webrings, etc.). Compiled information is tested and cross-checked using various sources and methods in order to establish its validity and before inserting it in the database. Websites such as turbulence.org and online reviews are valuable sources of information and are continuously consulted. They can also be used as references in starting an inquiry, and as “reservoirs” and repositories of information on current events and recent history. The NMSAT monitoring committee also consults and identifies references in other types of publication (books, articles, reviews, event programs, proceedings, newspapers, etc.) to extract information that may constitute a timeline entry. Bibliographies, footnotes and quotations which are listed in scientific articles and books, and in almost all publications, are crucial in the development of entry references and of semantic arborescence and navigation between information sources and the registered entry. The validation of each NMSAT entry depends on it being evaluated as consisting of an informative and pertinent summary plus webographic and bibliographic references. The aim of this validation is to ensure that the database remains an exact source of information. Entries have been formatted according to established editing rules and with a view to homogenizing contents. Thus the chronological organization of items has led to the development of a writing protocol : year, reference title, author(s), place, description, original and translated excerpts, quotation sources, bibliographical links and references. Each entry within the database presents a descriptive and informative summary from original and cited sources (websites, books, articles, conferences, essays, etc). Author(s) and source references, as well as references to the selected text, are associated with each entry. Navigation within NMSAT is possible through linear text mode, through the use of a hypertext menu or via keywords in search engines. {br}{br}
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