[MEI-L] next steps

Raffaele Viglianti raffaeleviglianti at gmail.com
Tue Feb 3 18:12:30 CET 2009


Hello Perry,

thank you very much for your feedback. I had a look at it and I'll redesign
the encoding following your advice.

Cheers,
Raffaele

2009/2/2 Roland, Perry (pdr4h) <pdr4h at eservices.virginia.edu>

> All,
>
> I created an mei19 directory within branches and created DTD and Documents
> directories within that.  With this all the test files in Documents can
> refer to the DTD one directory above.
>
> I also put my edited version of Raffaele's Syrinx file in Documents.
>
> --
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> Subject: Re: [MEI-L] next steps
>
> Hello all,
>
> I would like to thank you all for Dugstuhl. It's been fun and I think it
> can really be the starting point for some good work.
>
> I agree with Johannes regarding how to proceed. I think we agreed on ODD,
> and I think that the current version of MEI should get ODDified soon. During
> the ODDification, problems and questions will probably arise, and I'm glad
> we set up these tools to communicate easily.
>
> I would like to add a comment about TEI. As we all now, MEI has many
> elements in common with TEI, and even though I agree that MEI needs to be a
> standalone encoding (and community), I think that we should at least put an
> explicit reference to TEI's elements in the ODDs. I'm still not sure how we
> should deal with this, I only know that, in general, duplications are not
> good.
> Regarding the ODDification, I'll try to do my best, but my knowledge of ODD
> is limited. I hope that we can count on Lou and Sebastian as well (Gabriel
> doesn't know much more than me).
>
> On another note, I have encoded the first section of "Syrinx". It's only 8
> bars, but some problems arose already (meanwhile I keep working on the
> remaining section and I'll soon update my data).
> I created a page on the wiki with my comments.
> http://muwimedial.de/mei/index.php/ExSyrinx
> It would be great if you could comment on my comments and give me some
> suggestions/feedback.
> The file is on svn under trunk/Raffaele and there is an image of the score
> as well.
>
> Let's keep up the good work!
> Hope to hear from you soon,
>
> Raffaele
>
>
>
>
>
> 2009/2/1 Johannes Kepper <kepper at edirom.de<mailto:kepper at edirom.de>>
> Hello all,
>
> as Daniel was faster than me (but he didn't mention http://wiki.mei-c.org
> ) the only remaining things to write for me are concerning with our
> next steps. These are just a suggestion and open for discussion. I'm
> certainly not the one to set the rules for anything, so feel free to
> disagree…
>
> Hopefully, we'll get this grant from the DFG/NEH. In that case we will
> meet again in this year's summer (and perhaps there is a way to get
> Raffaele in the group), and have a second meeting in the first half of
> 2010. From my perspective, we should have an official release of MEI
> 1.0 at the end of this second  meeting. The meetings are (at least
> partially) meant for trying to encode actual musical examples, which
> means that we need to have a stable version much earlier. As we all
> basically agree on using ODD (do we?), I think that Raffaele's
> generous offer to spend some time on the transfer will really help us.
> Daniel and me will help as much as we can, but we cannot promise too
> much at the moment. It would be a great step if we could have the
> current MEI version ODDified till the first meeting of the project. We
> will hear about the success of our application probably at the end of
> April. If we're not funded, I guess we'll have to do the work without
> this kind of support. In that case we'd have a much smaller group of
> scholars, basically being the ones that are currently on this list.
>
>
> Therefore I suggest: Perry switches to Laurent's SVN for further
> changes on the DTDs. There have to be no unversioned changes anymore.
> Raffaele takes responsibility for the transition to ODD. He uses only
> the DTDs from the SVN, and only after making sure that Perry will not
> work on these DTDs until the transition is complete. Daniel and
> Johannes will be directed by Raffaele. Laurent and Johannes (and
> perhaps Raffaele with his Syrinx example) will try to encode some
> examples to detect problems and get material for interchange…
>
> Is this reasonable in your eyes?
>
>
> The initiative with Ted seems to be a separate development branch of
> MEI in my eyes, which should not keep us from working on the current
> release. Right?
>
>
> It was a pleasure to meet all of you at Dagstuhl, and I'm sure that we
> can achieve quite a lot if we stay that productive. Thanks for your
> participance!!!
> Johannes
>
>
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