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Der MEI-LIST:eners,<br>
yesterday on 14 November 2012 the MEI Technical Team held it's
(quarterly) meeting.<br>
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REPORTS<br>
For a beginning Craig Sapp (Standford) reported on his profitable
efforts extracting logical data from the SCORE format which will
allow a direct conversion to MEI (see also MEI-L Archive: <a
href="https://lists.uni-paderborn.de/pipermail/mei-l/2012/000671.html">https://lists.uni-paderborn.de/pipermail/mei-l/2012/000671.html</a>).
Moreover Axel T. Geertinger (Copenhagen) announced a release of
MerMEId and a open test installation for the end of this year or
early next year.<br>
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RELEASES<br>
A big issue on discussion were release stategies. Especially in the
light of recent discussions on the MEI-FRBR customization being
implemented in MerMEId and the layout-tree being implemented in
Aruspix - both of which should become part of official MEI. We
decided on first preparing a maintenance release (MEI v2.0.1) by the
end of the year, and second have another release incorporationg the
FRBR-customization and maybe the layout-tree-customization before
the "Music Encoding Conference 2013" (see below). In this context
the version numbering system of MEI has been rediscussed as to what
kind of change (on schema or guidelines) would increment which digit
in the version-number. The final coclusion was first digit (major
changes: e.g. anything that introduces new models new strucuture new
version of ODD), second digit (middling changes: more significant,
probaby breaking) and third digit (minor changes: mostly not
breaking) and not restricting this to either specifications or
guidelines.
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THE MUSIC ENCODING CONFERENCE 2013<a
href="http://www.music-encoding.org/conference"></a><br>
the Music Encoding Conference 2013 – Concepts, Methods, Editions, to
be held 22-24 May, 2013, at the Mainz Academy for Literature and
Sciences in Mainz, Germany.<br>
For further details visit: <a
href="http://www.music-encoding.org/conference">http://www.music-encoding.org/conference</a><br>
For the **CALL FOR ABSTRACTS** also see: <a
href="https://lists.uni-paderborn.de/pipermail/mei-l/2012/000704.html">https://lists.uni-paderborn.de/pipermail/mei-l/2012/000704.html</a><br>
Important dates:<br>
31 December 2012: Deadline for abstract submissions<br>
31 January 2013: Notification of acceptance/rejection of submissions<br>
21-24 May 2013: Conference<br>
31 July 2013: Deadline for submission of full papers for conference
proceedings<br>
December 2013: Publication of conference proceedings<br>
<br>
DISCUSSION STRATEGIES<br>
Although we try to discuss MEI issues as openly as possible on MEI-L
we have a separate mei-developer mailing list, mainly tracking the
issues of the google code repository (<a
href="https://code.google.com/p/music-encoding/issues/list">https://code.google.com/p/music-encoding/issues/list</a>).
Sometimes discussion gets started there, which we apologize for. For
the future we agreed on moving the discussion to MEI-L as soon as
possible.<br>
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FUTURE TEAM MEETINGS<br>
The MEI Technical Team had originally agreed on holding quarterly
meetings. As preparation of the last release (including the first
version of the guidelines got hold of us) time went by and the
meetings almost got forgotten. Future meetings will be quarterly
again, with the next thus being around the mid of february 2013.<br>
If anyone else wants to participate feel free to contact us.<br>
<br>
If you have questions about this report and the past meeting we are
happy to answer them. In case the Council has no objections to our
proposals, we will proceed as described above. <br>
<br>
With best wishes on behalf of the MEI Technical Team,<br>
Benjamin W. Bohl<br>
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