Music Encoding Initiative

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The Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) is an open source project and document format of the same name for encoding , exchanging and archiving music, which is being developed by MEI. The project is hosted on GitHub and overseen by the Academy of Sciences and Literature .

It is similar to the Text Encoding Initiative in terms of the combination of organization and format as well as in terms of its objectives .

MEI as a data format

The format is based on the widely used Extensible Markup Language (XML). It offers uniform coding rules for different forms of notation as well as for philological problems such as the notation of variants in different sources. The contextualization of this information is made possible by the creation of complex metadata . MEI is used, for example, for metadata catalogs or critical editions (sometimes also of older music). Edirom technology is also based on the MEI format. It is used worldwide by numerous scientific projects and is constantly being further developed.

The data format is also comparable to MusicXML , although it is differentiated from it by its focus on scientific and editorial issues. The document format is published under an open source license.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Music Encoding Initiative. In: github.com. Retrieved February 10, 2017 .
  2. ↑ MEI | The Music Encoding Initiative. In: music-encoding.org. 2017, accessed on February 10, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Axel pond Geert Inger: Turning Music Catalogs into Archives of musical scores-or Vice Versa: Music Archives and Catalogs Based on MEI XML . In: Fontes Artis Musicae . 61, No. 1, 2014, pp. 61-66. Accessed January 13, 2016.
  4. ^ Beethoven's workshop , a digital genetic edition project using Beethoven's sketch books
  5. ^ Richard Freedman: The Renaissance chanson goes digital: digitalduchemin.org . In: Early Music . 42, No. 4, 2014, pp. 567-578. doi : 10.1093 / em / cau108 . Accessed January 13, 2016.
  6. ↑ Homepage Center Music - Edition - Media (ZenMEM) / Edirom Virtual Research Network (ViFE)
  7. ↑ MEI Projects and users. Retrieved November 13, 2018 .
  8. ^ Johannes Kepper: Coding forms of music . In: Digital Media and Music Edition, Colloquium of the Committee for Musicological Editions of the Union of German Academies of Sciences. . 2006, pp. 16-18. Retrieved February 9, 2016.
  9. ↑ GitHub Code Repository