[MEI-L] MEI and Libraries

[Vaughan Hennen]

Ms. Richts,

Thank you very much for this information.  I will contact you if I have any
other questions.

Sincerely,

Vaughan Hennen

On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Kristina Richts <kristina.richts at gmx.de>
wrote:

> Hi Vaughan,
>
> Welcome on MEI-L!
>
> MEI indeed offers promising opportunities for cataloging issues and the
> use in music libraries. It provides wide-ranging possibilities to encode
> high quality metadata in a very detailed and extensive way. But the
> development of using MEI in the daily work of music libraries is more or
> less just starting from scratch - this is why you could not find very much
> documentation about it (yet).
>
> The implementation of the FRBR model in 2013 was one of the first attemps
> to adapt MEI to the requirements of not only music libraries but also
> cataloguing projects. Along with the MEI Guidelines you could also have a
> look at the Header section of the MEI 1st Tutorials:
> http://music-encoding.org/support/MEI1st/exploring_the_header
> There are brief descriptions of the main header elements and an example of
> cataloging with MEI as well as a cheat sheet which represents the structure
> of an MEI header.
>
> Along with the mentioned catalogue of Carl Nielsen’s works, you might have
> a look at the metadata editor MerMEId, which was developed at the Royal
> Library of Copenhagen by Axel Teich Geertinger:
> http://www.kb.dk/en/nb/dcm/projekter/mermeid.html
> The Nielsen catalogue was created using this tool and is a great first
> example of displaying MEI metadata. Besides the Nielsen edition a lot of
> other editorial or cataloguing projects started to adopt MEI for
> cataloguing purposes, i.e. RISM or Bach Digital, to name a few.
>
> Another cooperation project with a library (the Regional Library in
> Detmold) is the Detmold Court Theatre Project, in which I am working. We
> aim at developing an MEI and TEI based model for contextual indexing of
> musical holdings. It is intended to use MEI for a contextual indexing of
> sheet music for the first time there and to demonstrate the potential of
> MEI as a cataloging format, including encodings of incipits and detailed
> descriptions of the material components.
>
> In response to the increased interest in using MEI as a cataloguing
> format, we are currently preparing the establishing of a cataloging
> interest group (including a mailing list for this topic), which will have
> its first meeting at this year’s Music Encoding Conference being held in
> Florence from 18th to 21st May. We will be glad if you decide to
> participate: http://music-encoding.org/conference
>
> I hope this will help you. Please let us know if you have any further
> questions or if you need some more material for your presentation.
>
> Best,
> Kristina
>
>
> Am 17.04.2015 um 20:08 schrieb Andrew Hankinson <
> andrew.hankinson at mail.mcgill.ca>:
>
>  Hi Vaughan,
>
>  There is a significant amount of information in the MEI guidelines about
> how FRBR is implemented in MEI:
>
>  http://music-encoding.org/documentation/guidelines2013/FRBR
>
>  The online catalogue of Carl Nielsen’s works is a great example of how
> libraries can use MEI to present extensive musical metadata online using
> MEI.
>
>  See:
>
>  http://www.kb.dk/dcm/cnw/navigation.xq
> http://www.kb.dk/dcm/cnw/download_xml.xq?doc=cnw0001.xml
>
>  -Andrew
>
>  On Apr 17, 2015, at 12:56 AM, Vaughan Hennen <vhennen at umail.iu.edu>
> wrote:
>
>  Hello all,
>
>  This is my first time posting on the list-serv.
>
>  My name is Vaughan Hennen - I am pursuing a dual masters degree in
> Library Science and Information Science from Indiana University
> Bloomington.  My bachelors degree is from the University of North Texas in
> cello performance.
>
>  The project that I am presenting, is about MEI and its application in
> today's music libraries.
>
> I have done reading on what MEI is and how it is applicable in music
> libraries, but I am still not clear on its use in music libraries.
>
>  Would any of you offer some insight about how music libraries use MEI
> metadata or how the extensible language adds to the library?
>
>  Thank you for your help.
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>  -Vaughan Hennen
>
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