[MEI-L] MEI and Libraries

Fri May 8 21:27:34 CEST 2015

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I'd say, the power (and beauty ;) of MEI facilitates both scenarios.
In fact, I do not see any need for distinguishing here?!

Cheers
Peter

Am 08.05.2015 um 09:11 schrieb Vaughan Hennen:
> Ms. Richts,
> 
> When MEI encodes cataloging information, is the purpose to have an 
> interconnected database, or is the purpose to have an encoded
> record for the work?
> 
> The Carl Neilson example is significant because it is 1. encoded
> and 2. creates an encoded record that is more thorough than most
> other cataloging records.  Is this correct?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> -Vaughan Hennen
> 
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Vaughan Hennen
> <vhennen at umail.iu.edu <mailto:vhennen at umail.iu.edu>> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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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