[MEI-L] First sketch from Beethovens Werkstatt

[Christine Siegert]

Dear Johannes,
congratulations for this great work to you and all your Beethoven-Werkstatt 
colleagues and to Laurent!
All the best
Christine


Prof. Dr. Christine Siegert
Universität der Künste Berlin
Fakultät Musik, Musikwissenschaft
Fasanenstraße 1B
D-10623 Berlin

Tel.: +49 (0)30 3185 2318
siegert at udk-berlin.de
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- 
From: Johannes Kepper
Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2014 7:53 PM
To: Music Encoding Initiative
Subject: Re: [MEI-L] First sketch from Beethovens Werkstatt

What I forgot to mention: This wouldn’t have been possible without Laurent 
Pugin’s Verovio (http://verovio.org), which we use very enthusiastically. 
Thanks for this, Laurent :-)

jo


Am 02.12.2014 um 19:45 schrieb Johannes Kepper <kepper at edirom.de>:

> Dear Community,
>
> yesterday, our project Beethovens Werkstatt was officially launched with a 
> ceremonial act at the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, and I’m glad to inform you 
> about the work that our team has done in the last few weeks. As you know, 
> our work on the project actually started earlier, including contributions 
> to the Music Encoding Conference in Charlottesville. In September, we did 
> a workshop in Detmold with Perry, evaluating possibilities for encoding 
> genetical processes in Beethoven’s manuscripts. During this workshop, we 
> came up with a model which heavily relies on the facsimiles, instead of 
> trying to reflect graphical details into the MEI code.
>
> The model is still not complete, but we anticipate to propose it as 
> addition to MEI. You can have a look at its current state at 
> https://github.com/BeethovensWerkstatt/Data-Model. We will provide 
> additional documentation (read: a chapter for the Guidelines plus several 
> examples) and move it to the MEIncubator for review. The main motivation 
> for setting up our own repo is that the proposed module should be 
> absolutely generic, whereas our implementation for Beethoven will be 
> specific, and it seems good to separate these things right away.
>
> In order to illustrate the use of this model, and to show the potential of 
> combining high-res facsimiles with MEI and SVG, we’ve set up a prototype 
> that explains the textual development of a small section of Beethoven’s 
> op.111. This prototype is available at
>
> http://beethovens-werkstatt.de/demo/index.html.
>
> Again, this is work in progress with a whole lot of known limitations. In 
> the near future, we plan to provide a full english localization at least 
> of the tool (the contents may take more time). Also, we plan to consider 
> the key signature when providing note labels in the interface ;-)
> Our schedule is to clean the code so that others may step in or fork our 
> code more easily, and we hope to put everything on Github in January. In 
> the meantime, we’re happy about feedback, either here on MEI-L or by 
> personal message to me or someone else from the team. Please keep in mind, 
> though, that this prototype is not the final result of our work, but the 
> first trial.
>
> For the Beethoven team,
> Johannes
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