[MEI-L] New MEI grant from the DFG and NEH

[Mayhood, Erin (elm8s)]

Dear MEI Community,

We are thrilled to report that MEI has received three more years of 
support from the DFG and NEH!

The DFG/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program: Enriching Digital 
Collections Program has provided funding for a three year, bilateral, 
collaborative effort to produce a Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) 
demonstration project and to engage in dissemination efforts that will 
establish MEI as the predominant academic encoding standard for music 
notation.

The demonstration project will include basic software for transforming 
material into MEI, a searchable archive of representative MEI-encoded 
data, and a prototype delivery system for items in the archive. Our 
dissemination efforts – presentations at professional conferences, the 
provision of workshops, the formal foundation of a governing council, 
and a first "MEI Members Meeting" – will all contribute to the 
establishment and expansion of the community base we have been 
building this past year. In turn, we expect that the widening 
community will itself begin to attract new users and trigger the 
development of additional tools for MEI outside this project.

In order to carry out this project the National Endowment for the 
Humanities has provided $161,175 and the Deutsche 
Forschungsgemeinschaft €128,148. Johannes Kepper, Erin Mayhood, Perry 
Roland and Joachim Veit are named principal investigators for the project.

This new grant adds to the ever growing momentum in the MEI community 
and I hope you will all accept our thanks for your support over the 
past year. We look forward to continued collaboration!


Sincerely,

Joachim, Johannes, Erin and Perry