# Help wanted with improving the proceedings archive

**URL:** <https://forum.nime.org/t/help-wanted-with-improving-the-proceedings-archive/135>\
**Category:** Conference\
**Created:** [September 1, 2020, 7:23am UTC](https://forum.nime.org/t/help-wanted-with-improving-the-proceedings-archive/135 "2020-09-01T07:23:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![alexarje](https://forum.nime.org/user_avatar/forum.nime.org/alexarje/32/8_2.png) [@alexarje](https://forum.nime.org/u/alexarje)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 7:23am UTC](https://forum.nime.org/t/help-wanted-with-improving-the-proceedings-archive/135/1 "2020-09-01T07:23:45Z")

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We have been working on centralizing and standardizing the proceedings archive over several years now. However, new things pop up all the time, as can be seen in the number of [open issues](https://github.com/NIME-conference/NIME-bibliography/issues) on GitHub.

If you want to help out, here are a few things where we could need assistance:

- We particularly need someone to add info about [music](https://github.com/NIME-conference/NIME-bibliography/tree/master/music_proceedings) and [installations](https://github.com/NIME-conference/NIME-bibliography/tree/master/installation_proceedings) (only 2011 and 2019 are online). This would need some digging into old program web pages and booklets.

- While digging in old files, it would nice to also retrieve the [ISBNs](https://www.nime.org/archives/proceedings-isbn/) for all years that had that.

- And we always want help with spell-checking names, title, and whatever else that could be wrong in the archive (a lot of the information was scraped from PDFs, so there are mistakes in there).

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**Author:** ![Isabela](https://forum.nime.org/user_avatar/forum.nime.org/isabela/32/37_2.png) [@Isabela](https://forum.nime.org/u/Isabela)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.nime.org/t/help-wanted-with-improving-the-proceedings-archive/135/2 "2020-09-03T18:56:19Z")

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Well, I think I can handle this significant work and if another volunteer, or others volunteers want to help out, I would suggest to divide the work by number of years, I mean, each one would hold about 3 or 4 years (if we are three) to research the old program web pages and booklets from 2001 until 2010.

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**Author:** ![alexarje](https://forum.nime.org/user_avatar/forum.nime.org/alexarje/32/8_2.png) [@alexarje](https://forum.nime.org/u/alexarje)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.nime.org/t/help-wanted-with-improving-the-proceedings-archive/135/3 "2020-09-03T20:31:04Z")

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That would be great! 👏 I have started digging in the old archives, and have also contacted previous chairs to see what they can dig out.

Anyone else that would like to join a small team to work on this?