[PRE REVIEW]: Soundata: Reproducible use of audio datasets

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Submitting author: !--author-handle-->@magdalenafuentes<!--end-author-handle-- (Magdalena Fuentes) Repository: https://github.com/soundata/soundata Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): paper Version: v0.1.3 Editor: !--editor-->@faroit<!--end-editor-- Reviewers: @hagenw, @hadware Managing EiC: Daniel S. Katz

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[faroit]

👋 Hi @magdalenafuentes, thanks again your submitting to JOSS! So I'm happy to serve as an editor for this. We'll use this issue to identify reviewers and resolve technical issues.

As sounddata has a wide reach throughout a diverse number of mir dcase-like tasks, it would be great to have one reviewer with a domain knowledge in one of the tasks but also someone who have experience with data related tools used in the MIR community... I have a few potential reviewers in mind

• @ fzalkow
• @ hadware
• @ pzelasko
• @ turian
• @ nateanl
• @ hagenw

Because open-source audio is a small community, please let me know about potential COIs wrt to the JOSS policy

@magdalenafuentes, also let me know about other potential (possibly more diverse) reviewers, so any suggestions you have are also welcome, please only mention them with a space between the @ and their handle (so you would refer to me as "@ faroit").

[magdalenafuentes]

Hey @faroit! Thanks for moving this along!

I don't have any COIs with the potential reviewers you mentioned. Among them, given that soundata focuses on environmental sound, bioacoustics and spatial audio (DCASE-like tasks), I think that @ turian, @ hagenw, @ nateanl might be better fit (since @ fzalkow, @ hadware and @ pzelasko are more focused on MIR and speech).

Adding some names of researchers that would be great to have as reviewers:

• @ polarch : DCASE challenge organizer and expert in spatial audio
• @ danstowell: DCASE challenge organizer and expert in bioacoustics
• @ toni-heittola: DCASE challenge organizer and expert environmental sound
• @ keisukeImoto: DCASE challenge organizer and expert on acoustic scene identification and anomaly detection
• @ inesnolas: DCASE challenge organizer, PhD student on bioacoustics and ML

[faroit]

👋 @turian @hagenw @nateanl @polarch @danstowell @toni-heittola @keisukeImoto @inesnolas would any of you be willing to review this submission for JOSS? The JOSS review process takes place on GitHub and focuses on the software and a short paper. We carry out our checklist-driven reviews here in GitHub issues and follow these guidelines: https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reviewer_guidelines.html

The software under review is soundata.

This issue is a "pre-review" issue in which reviewers are assigned. Once sufficient reviewers are recruited we will open a dedicated review issue where the review will take place.

[hagenw]

I would indeed be interested in reviewing this, as I work since a few years on a Python library to manage and version audio data for machine learning as well (https://github.com/audeering/audb). The only restriction is that I will only have time for the review after 20th March.

[faroit]

@hagenw I'm sure having you on board makes any software stronger :-) So thanks for your offer and helping out JOSS.

[faroit]

@editorialbot add @hagenw as reviewer

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@hagenw added to the reviewers list!

[hagenw]

I would like to start the review, but I guess I should not do it here as this is a pre-review issue?

[faroit]

@hagenw Yes please wait. We are still waiting for a second reviewer. I will start a new initiative tomorrow.

[danielskatz]

👋 @faroit - Are you have any luck finding a second reviewer?

[faroit]

@danielskatz I'm still on it and wrote a few mails today.

[danielskatz]

great, thanks - I try to regularly check on submissions in the CSISM track that haven't shown updates in the system in a few weeks, but of course, I can't see anything that happens outside GitHub

[faroit]

👋 @fschmid56 @kkoutini @turian @nateanl @polarch @danstowell @toni-heittola @keisukeImoto @inesnolas @gertdekkers @dangpzanco @f0k @bytesnake @liuxubo717 @NielsRogge @hadware we are still looking for a JOSS review of soundata here on github.

If you can't help out yourself, I would be very helpful if potential reviewers could be proposed with expertise in audio datasets and python (possibly in the DCASE community).

The JOSS review process takes place on GitHub and focuses on the software and a short paper. We carry out our checklist-driven reviews here in GitHub issues and follow these guidelines: https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reviewer_guidelines.html

This issue is a "pre-review" issue in which reviewers are assigned. Once sufficient reviewers are recruited we will open a dedicated review issue where the review will take place.

[hadware]

Sure, I'd happily review this. This looks like a great tool :)

[faroit]

@hadware thats good news, thanks! Because the main author @magdalenafuentes is absent for some time, I would like to ask you to check potential conflict of interest on your side (also with the co-authors @genisplaja and @guillemcortes).

[guillemcortes]

Hi @faroit, I confirm that I do not have COI with any of the potential reviewers.

[hadware]

I've been once on a work trip/holiday in barcelona, that's as far as any CoI my might go (so, yeah, no COI :) )

[faroit]

@editorialbot add @hadware as reviewer

[editorialbot]

@hadware added to the reviewers list!

[faroit]

@editorialbot start review

[editorialbot]

OK, I've started the review over in https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/6634.