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

[Andrew Hankinson, Mr]

Congratulations! This is great news.

-Andrew

On 2010-07-29, at 9:21 PM, Ichiro Fujinaga wrote:

> 
> 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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