Excellent news!<br><br>all best,<br><br><br>Richard<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Mayhood, Erin (elm8s) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:elm8s@eservices.virginia.edu">elm8s@eservices.virginia.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Dear MEI Community,<br>
<br>
We are thrilled to report that MEI has received three more years of<br>
support from the DFG and NEH!<br>
<br>
The DFG/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program: Enriching Digital<br>
Collections Program has provided funding for a three year, bilateral,<br>
collaborative effort to produce a Music Encoding Initiative (MEI)<br>
demonstration project and to engage in dissemination efforts that will<br>
establish MEI as the predominant academic encoding standard for music<br>
notation.<br>
<br>
The demonstration project will include basic software for transforming<br>
material into MEI, a searchable archive of representative MEI-encoded<br>
data, and a prototype delivery system for items in the archive. Our<br>
dissemination efforts – presentations at professional conferences, the<br>
provision of workshops, the formal foundation of a governing council,<br>
and a first "MEI Members Meeting" – will all contribute to the<br>
establishment and expansion of the community base we have been<br>
building this past year. In turn, we expect that the widening<br>
community will itself begin to attract new users and trigger the<br>
development of additional tools for MEI outside this project.<br>
<br>
In order to carry out this project the National Endowment for the<br>
Humanities has provided $161,175 and the Deutsche<br>
Forschungsgemeinschaft €128,148. Johannes Kepper, Erin Mayhood, Perry<br>
Roland and Joachim Veit are named principal investigators for the project.<br>
<br>
This new grant adds to the ever growing momentum in the MEI community<br>
and I hope you will all accept our thanks for your support over the<br>
past year. We look forward to continued collaboration!<br>
<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Joachim, Johannes, Erin and Perry<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Richard Freedman<br>John C. Whitehead Professor of Music<br>Haverford College<br>Haverford, PA 19041<br><br>610-896-1007<br>610-896-4902 (fax)<br><br>