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On 21 February 2012 the MEI Technical Team held it's quarterly
meeting . Topics discussed were repository strategies, referencing
MEI tools from the <a href="http://www.music-encoding.org">http://www.music-encoding.org</a> website and
of course the MEI 2012 release including the previously unreleased
MEI Guidelines. The official release of MEI 2012 and
corresponding guidelines is to be expected by August. During the
next few days a pre-release of the schema will be made
available through the newly established schema customization
web service based on ROMA and capable of
handling customizations files in the ODD format (<a
href="http://customization.music-encoding.org">http://customization.music-encoding.org</a>). This web
service will gradually offer more customizations preconfigured
for specific use cases. At the same time projects and
developers are encouraged to submit their own customizations to the
mei-incubator project (<a
href="http://code.google.com/p/mei-incubator/">http://code.google.com/p/mei-incubator/</a>),
which is designated as platform to share application specific
schema customizations, experimental status modules or modifications
to the MEI core development. Good examples for this are the
MEI-FRBR-customization or the new solesmes module currently under
development.<br>
Everybody is very welcome to share and test the pre-release of the
schema or any of the customizations on the mei-incubator. If you
need assistance in getting a working schema out of these files, the
Technical Team is happy to answer any such questions on this list.
At the same time, there are ways to support the Technical Team on
its work for the coming release. Several module descriptions
are still unattended for. If you would like to support the MEI
community, fleshing out some chapters for the guidelines is a good
way. Your participation may range from providing a couple of
paragraphs as a word processor document to a fully TEI encoded
chapter including musical examples in MEI. Currently the following
modules are vacant: analysis, corpus, figtable, harmony, linkalign,
namesdates, ptrref, tablature, text. If you would like to know what
these chapters actually have to cover, or you would like to
participate on one of the other chapters, please contact
Perry Roland (<a href="mailto:pdr4h@virginia.edu">pdr4h@virginia.edu</a>)
or Johannes Kepper (<a href="mailto:kepper@edirom.de">kepper@edirom.de</a>).<br>
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On behalf of the MEI Technical Team,<br>
Benjamin W. Bohl
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