[MEI-L] starting MerMEId community calls on Monday, Dec. 14, at 3:30 PM (GMT+1)

[Peter Stadler]

Dear MEI-L,

I think it’s fair to say that the MerMEId ("Metadata Editor and Repository for MEI Data") is one of the success stories of the MEI community. It showcases the powers of the standard by facilitating the editions of great work catalogues, and it pushed the development of the meta data section of the MEI header itself. Regrettably, the Royal Danish Library—who supported this development for several years—ceased its support and the core developers Axel Geertinger and Sigfrid Lundberg were not able to work on the MerMEId anymore.

Yet, they released the MerMEId code at GitHub for others (= us) to maintain it and develop it further. Some work has already been done to facilitate the deployment of the MerMEId and to update its eXistdb and Orbeon core—a big shoutout and thank you to Zsofia Abraham, Omar Siam, Clemens Gubsch, and Daniel Schopper from the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage!

Since others also expressed their interest in the documentation and further development of the MerMEId, we thought it’d be best to foster these activities around the GitHub fork at https://github.com/Edirom/MerMEId by regular (monthly) community calls and eventually a dedicated Slack channel under music-encoding.slack.com?!


Long story short: if you’re interested in the development of the MerMEId and would like to contribute, please join us for the first MerMEId community call on Monday, Dec. 14, at 3:30 PM (GMT+1) via Zoom
https://uni-paderborn-de.zoom.us/j/93200725368?pwd=RG93T1JTemRQY2dadGIrOTRVeTlGQT09
Meeting-ID: 932 0072 5368
Code: 841840

At this (very) first meeting we’ll try to outline the current status of the MerMEId and identify and discuss next steps.

Stay safe and looking forward to next Monday,
Peter



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