Hi all,
I wanted to share a quick update on the GitHub repositories behind the proceedings archive (NIME-bibliography) and nime.org (NIME-website). There has been a lot happening over the last few months, and especially in the last couple of weeks.
Here are some rough numbers for the bibliography repository:
| 2024 | 2025 | Last 90 days | Last 30 days | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Issues opened | 8 | 2 | 36 | 14 |
| Issues closed | 7 | 2 | 29 | 25 |
| Pull requests merged | 0 | 1 | 18 | 15 |
About 40% of all the issues ever opened on the bibliography (since 2014) were opened in the last 90 days. The website looks similar: 24 of its 51 issues ever came in the last 90 days, and 13 pull requests were merged in that time (compared with 6 in 2024 and 2025 combined).
Some of this is because I did an audit of the archive and website in July, which turned up a long list of problems to fix. The really exciting part is what has happened since. In the last week:
- @stefanofasciani compressed all the large proceedings PDFs (some were over 80 MB) so that Google Scholar can index them, fixed a pile of Zenodo records by hand, added the ISSN to the 2024 to 2026 records, and is starting to merge the old music and installation proceedings.
- @alexarje landed six carefully checked pull requests: https links throughout, corrected DOIs and a duplicate entry, abstracts for 84 papers that had none, and page numbers for the 2012 proceedings from the printed volume. He has also measured how NIME papers show up in OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar, which explains why NIME is hard to find as a venue in bibliometric tools.
The archive is also more visible now: changes go through pull requests with automatic checks, and the open questions are written up as issues, so anyone can see what’s going on and help out.
Next on the list are reference lists for our papers (so that citations made by NIME papers get counted, #142), merging the music and installation proceedings (#135), and getting OpenAlex to recognise NIME as a venue (#126).
Thanks so much to Stefano and Alexander. It’s been great to see this work moving so quickly. If anybody sees this and wants to jump in, NIME operates in a very open manner, all the problems are publicly listed as GitHub issues and community members are able to contribute and make pull requests or help through comments and perspectives on open issues as well.