[MEI-L] Release of MEI 2012 v2.0.0

[Eleanor Selfridge-Field]

Hi, Joachim,

I know you sent a note recently, but I cannot find it. I travel this
weekend, and I was in an auto accident a few days ago, so life is slightly
crazy.

Please write again. I'm sure we can find a time to meet on Thursday 6th,
but I'm not yet sure when it will be.

I will be at the Hotel Central from 3 to 8 Sept.

Alles gut'

Eleanor


-----Original Message-----
From: mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de
[mailto:mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de] On Behalf Of Joachim Veit
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 1:49 PM
To: mei-l at lists.uni-paderborn.de
Subject: Re: [MEI-L] Release of MEI 2012 v2.0.0

Dear Perry and Johannes,
congratulations!!!!!
This was an enormous task and all MEI'ers will raise their glass of beer
or wine this evening with singing the praise of the two editors but also
singing thanking-hymns to all those in the still small MEI-world who have
contributed with their hard work to this success!!!
With this step the MEI-world will be growing still more rapidly -
certainly!
Please take a rest and raise your glasses and only later think that the
work for version 3.0 begins tomorrow...
Best greetings, and many, many - and still much more thanks to you and
all!
Joachim



Am 24.08.12 22:34, schrieb Johannes Kepper:
> Dear MEIers,
>
> finally, we have made our way through the Guidelines, which means that
we're happy to announce the release of MEI 2012. This release is available
from http://music-encoding.googlecode.com/files/MEI2012_v2.0.0.zip. Before
adding more details about this, we would like to thank everyone involved
in this release in one way or the other for the continuous support.
Without a whole lot of dedication by all of you, this wouldn't have been
possible.
>
>
> LABELLING SCHEME
> MEI 2012 v2.0.0 is the complete name for this release. While "MEI 2012"
is the label for it, the "v2.0.0" is the technical identification for it.
We will use this numbering scheme for all subsequent releases of MEI. Let
me explain the numbers a little bit. The first digit indicates the
technical foundation to be used. We have built this release from scratch
using a different technology (something I'm coming back to later), so this
is the second iteration of MEI, following the original 2010-05 release.
The second digit indicates changes in the schema, the third digit changes
to the documentation. That means the number v2.0.1 would be used for a
revised documentation for the current release, the number v2.1.3 would
indicate a change in the schema itself, that already had three revisions
to the documentation.
>
>
> TECHNICAL BACKGROUND - ODD
> Starting with MEI 2012 v2.0.0, MEI is described using TEI's ODD, which
stands for One Document Does-it-all. This is a meta schema language that
allows one to generate schemas and documentation from the same source. It
also facilitates customizing MEI in a self-documenting way. We already
have a preliminary customization service for those of you familiar with
ODD at http://custom.music-encoding.org.
>
>
> GUIDELINES
> Compared to MEI 2010-05, we completely rewrote the documentation for
MEI. We had a tag library for that, which was helpful, but which required
a certain amount of familiarity with the schema to work with it. Now we
have a nearly 700 page document which still includes a tag library, but
also around 250 pages explaining how to use MEI to encode different
features of music notation of various kinds. It follows the module
structure of MEI and significantly increases accessibility of the schema.
Make sure to have a look at this PDF, which is contained in the release
zip mentioned above, but is also separately available from
http://music-encoding.googlecode.com/files/MEI_Guidelines_2012_v2.0.0.pdf.
>
>
> TODO
> Even though we have finished this release, there are still things to
improve. First, we plan to reshape our website at music-encoding.org to
match this new release. We plan to include the Guidelines, a revised tag
library section, and a collection of MEI sample encodings. We will address
these issues successively, starting in the next couple of weeks. What
should happen simultaneously is that we gather feedback on the release,
specifically on the Guidelines. If you have the opportunity to work a
little bit with the Guidelines in the next few weeks or months, please do
that. We hope to improve the Guidelines in a number of several small steps
until the end of the current DFG/NEH funded grant, which will be summer
next year.
>
>
> If you have any further questions, feel free to ask us personally or
here on MEI-L.
>
> With best regards,
>
> Perry and Johannes
>
>
>
>
>
>
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