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

[Richard Freedman]

Excellent news!

all best,


Richard

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Mayhood, Erin (elm8s) <
elm8s at eservices.virginia.edu> 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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-- 
Richard Freedman
John C. Whitehead Professor of Music
Haverford College
Haverford, PA 19041

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