[MEI-L] First sketch from Beethovens Werkstatt

[Richard Freedman]

Congratulations!  I agree that this looks excellent!

Richard

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Johannes Kepper <kepper at edirom.de> wrote:

> 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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