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

[Ichiro Fujinaga]

Great news!!
Congratulations!

Ich

On 2010-07-29, at 4:50 PM, Mayhood, Erin (elm8s) wrote:

> 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
> 
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