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

[Frans Wiering]

An congratulations from Utrecht!
Another milestone that can be mentioned in the ISMIR Late breaking/Demo 
poster.

Frans Wiering

Andreas Münzmay wrote:
> Wonderful news - our congratulations from Bayreuth!
> Andreas
> 
> 
> 
> Am 29.07.2010 um 22:50 schrieb 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
>>
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