Music Encoding Initiative (MEI), an Editing, Encoding and Describing Standard for Musical Documents in the Digital Environment: Characteristics, Features and Scope of Application
Abstract MEI is an exhaustive and extensible XML based standard for semantic markup of musical texts in the digital domain. Its versatility has made it the most consolidated standard for music editing in the academic field, in virtue of integrating resources for the representation of any work, style, or epoch. Its flexible and extensible nature, together with the inclusion of specific elements for bibliographic description, and the possibility of unitarily integrating both metadata and marked text, make it a reference for managing musical documents in the digital environment. The present work constitutes an approach to the MEI standard through the analysis of its structure, its constituent elements, and its application in the field of musical documentation management in digital archives and databases.
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Geertinger, A. T., & Lundberg, S. (2009). MerMEId?: Creating Thematic Catalogues Using MEI Metadata. Copenhagen, Denmark: National Library O Denmark and Conpenhangen University Library.
Hankinson, A., Roland, P., & Fujinaga, I. (2011). The Music Encoding Initiative as a Document-Encoding Framework. (pp. 293–298).
Kepper, J., Hankinson, A., Hartwig, M., Pugin, L., Richts, K., Geertinger, A. T., … Weber, T. (2013). Music Encoding Initiative Guidelines Release 2013.
Library of Congress. (2017). Library of Congress Recommended Formats Statement. Retrieved December 7, 2017, from https://goo.gl/Mv9HeX
MEI. (2017). What are the goals of MEI? Retrieved September 23, 2017, from https://goo.gl/tmKT3S
Merchán Sánchez-Jara, J. (2016). Del reconocimiento de la variante a la senda de lectura en el ámbito de la edición crítica digital. Alabe Revista de Investigación Sobre Lectura y Escritura, 7(13), 1–11. doi:https://doi.org/10.15645/Alabe2016.13.3
Merchán Sánchez-Jara, J., Cordón-García, J.-A. A., & Gómez-Díaz, R. (2017). Towards a hypermedia model for digital scholarly edition of musical texts based on MEI (Music Encoding Initiative) standard: Integration of hidden traditions within social editing paradigm. In J. M. Dodero, M. S. Ibarra Sáiz, & I. R. Rube (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality. Cádiz: ACM. doi:https://doi.org/10.1145/3144826.3145446
Pugin, L. (2013). Going Digital: Finding the Right Path for Critical Music Editions (pp. 247–66). Berne: Peter Lang.
Pugin, L., Kepper, J., Roland, P., Hartwig, M., & Hankinson, A. (2012). Separating Presentation and Content in MEI. In Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2012) (pp. 505–510). Porto, Portugal.
Sampsel, L. (2009). Music Research: A handbook (1st ed.). Oxford, Uk: Oxford University Press.
Schmidt, D. (2014). Towards an Interoperable Digital Scholarly Edition. Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, 7(7). doi:https://doi.org/10.4000/jtei.979
The TEI Consortium. (2017). TEI: History. Retrieved September 23, 2017, from https://goo.gl/fKDDJu
Viglianti, R. (2010). Making MEI feel ODD: Employing a literate programming approach for MEI, from https://goo.gl/jXceyz
Viglianti, R. (2015, April). Performing the Digital Edition: Textual Scholarship & the Digital Consumption of Music Scores. Maryland, from https://goo.gl/H2yq9F
Wiering, F. (2017) ‘Digital critical editions of music: A multidimensional model’, in Crawford, T. and Gibson, L. (eds.) Modern Methods for Musicology: Prospects, Proposals and Realities. 1st edn. London: Routledge.
Merchán Sánchez-jara, J. (2019). Music Encoding Initiative (MEI), an Editing, Encoding and Describing Standard for Musical Documents in the Digital Environment: Characteristics, Features and Scope of Application. Education in The Knowledge Society, 20, 13. https://doi.org/10.14201/eks2019_20_a9
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