Google Scholar is indexing the individual publication pages

Publication Ecosystem
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Just noticed yesterday that Google Scholar is indexing the individual publication pages we have on https://nime.org:

E.g., looking at a random (but pretty neat) paper: “Playful Audio-Visual Interaction with Spheroids”, google scholar shows “2 versions”:

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The first is the automatically discovered PDF: https://www.nime.org/proceedings/2020/nime2020_paper36.pdf

And the second is the article page: https://www.nime.org/proc/nime20_36/

Notably, the second has more correct metadata in terms of having the proper name of the proceedings: Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression.

I’ve just activated some more metadata in the article pages (page numbers, DOI, ISSN, ISBN, etc), hopefully this helps get better and better data into Google Scholar.

(PS: many folks will have their NIME papers archived in lots of papers, e.g., institutional archives, arXiv, etc, so for YOUR NIME paper, it’s normal to have lots of “versions” in google scholar)

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That is cool! Glad that scholar is finally handling the proceedings archives carefully. There have been ups and downs over the years, for various reasons. The stability of the archive could be a reason they are doing this correctly now.

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On a related topic, I see that the DBLP index is nearly up to date. I wonder if that is happening automatically now, or if proceedings chairs are having to submit these annually, as in the past/early days?

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Oh it is up to date. I guess if there was a “proceedings chair” for 2023 it was me and I didn’t do it, so it’s either automatic or some amazingly altruistic person updating it!

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I guess that a solution (if feasible) would be:

Alternatively, we can keep the PDFs only in Zenodo.

However, as you stated, there are NIME papers hanging in many other repositories, so having just one more version may not be a a big deal.