Opening the Valve on Pure Data Dataset

This page contains the i) SQLite database, and ii) scripts and instructions for the paper titled Opening the Valve on Pure-Data: Usage Patterns and Programming Practices of a Data-Flow Based Visual Programming Language.

We have provided two main files in this link:

dataset.tar.gz

scripts_and_instructions.zip

Additionally, the i) SQLite database, ii) scripts and instructions, and iii) mirrored repositories of the PD projects can also be found in the following link: https://archive.org/details/Opening_the_Valve_on_Pure_Data. 

The download instructions are as follows:

Our dataset is available at this link and also at archive.org and at 

https://zenodo.org/records/10576757 

as a file titled dataset.tar.gz (~1.12GB). You can download the file and then you can unzip the database by running tar -xzf dataset.tar.gz.

You can also find the scripts and instructions needed to use our database and replicate our work inside the scripts_and_instructions.zip (~116MB) file, which you can download from this link and also from the same archive.org link. After that, you can unzip the scripts_and_instructions.zip file by using the command: unzip scripts_and_instructions.zip.

Finally, the mirrored PD repositories are available at archive.org. The file is titled pd_mirrored.tar.gz (~242.5GB). You can download the zipped folder of the mirrored repositories using the following command: wget -c https://archive.org/download/Opening_the_Valve_on_Pure_Data/pd_mirrored.tar.gz. After that, you can unzip the file using tar -xzf pd_mirrored.tar.gz.

You can find a README.md file inside the unzipped directory titled scripts_and_instructions detailing the structure and usage of our dataset, along with some sample SQL queries and additional helper scripts for the database. Furthermore, we have provided instructions for replicating our work in the same README file.