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

[Byrd, Donald A.]

And congrats (slightly belated) from Bloomington!  --Don


On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:37:28 +0200, Frans Wiering 
<frans.wiering at cs.uu.nl> wrote:

> 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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Donald Byrd
Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellow
Adjunct Associate Professor of Informatics & Music
Indiana University, Bloomington