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The '''Music Encoding Initiative''' ('''MEI''') is an [[Open source|open-source]]<ref name="google-code">[https://github.com/music-encoding/ GitHub Code Repository]</ref> effort to create a system for representation of musical documents in a [[Machine-readable document|machine-readable structure]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Hankinson|first1=Andrew|last2=Roland|first2=Perry|last3=Fujinaga|first3=Ichiro|title=The Music Encoding Initiative as a document encoding framework|journal=Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval|date=2011|volume=October|pages=293–298|url=http://ismir2011.ismir.net/papers/OS3-1.pdf|accessdate=31 March 2015}}</ref> MEI closely mirrors work done by text scholars in the [[Text Encoding Initiative]] (TEI) and while the two [[Code|encoding]] initiatives are not formally related, they share many common characteristics and development practices. The term "MEI", like "TEI", describes the governing organization and the [[markup language]]. The MEI community solicits input and development directions from specialists in various music research communities, including [[Information technology|technologists]], [[Librarian|librarians]], [[Historian|historians]], and [[Theory|theorists]] in a common effort to discuss and define best practices for representing a broad range of musical documents and structures. The results of these discussions are then formalized into the MEI schema, a core set of rules for recording physical and intellectual characteristics of [[Musical notation|music notation]] documents. This schema is expressed in an [[XML schema]] Language, with [[RelaxNG]] being the preferred format. The MEI schema is developed using the One-Document-Does-it-all<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Viglianti |first=Raffaele |title=One Document Does-it-all (ODD): a language for documentation, schema generation, and customization from the Text Encoding Initiative |url=https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol24.Viglianti01 |journal=Balisage Series on Markup Technologies |series=Proceedings of the Symposium on Markup Vocabulary Customization |date=2019 |volume=24 |language=en |location=Rockville, Maryland |publisher=Mulberry Technologies, Inc. |doi=10.4242/balisagevol24.viglianti01|isbn=978-1-935958-19-2 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> (ODD) format, a [[literate programming]] XML format developed by the Text Encoding Initiative.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Perry Roland Creates DTD for the Representation of Music Notation, Leading to the Music Encoding Initiative : History of Information |url=https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=5005 |access-date=2023-08-22 |website=www.historyofinformation.com}}</ref>

MEI is often used for music [[metadata]] catalogs,<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Teich Geertinger|first1=Axel|title=Turning Music Catalogues into Archives of Musical Scores–or Vice Versa: Music Archives and Catalogues Based on MEI XML|journal=Fontes Artis Musicae|date=2014|volume=61|issue=1|pages=61–66|url=https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-367965723/turning-music-catalogues-into-archives-of-musical|accessdate=13 January 2016}}</ref> critical editing<ref>[http://beethovens-werkstatt.de/ Beethovens Werkstatt], a digital [[Genetic editing|genetic edition]] project using Beethoven's sketch books</ref> (particularly of early music<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Freedman|first1=Richard|title=The Renaissance chanson goes digital: digitalduchemin.org|journal=Early Music|date=2014|volume=42|issue=4|pages=567–578|doi=10.1093/em/cau108}}</ref>), and [[Music OCR|OMR]]-based data collection and interchange.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hankinson|first1=Andrew|last2=Pugin|first2=Laurent|last3=Fujinaga|first3=Ichiro|title=Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Digital Libraries for Musicology |chapter=Introduction to SIMSSA (Single Interface for Music Score Searching and Analysis) |series=DLFM '14|date=2014|pages=1–3|doi=10.1145/2660168.2660184|isbn=9781450330022|s2cid=8419715|chapter-url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2660184|accessdate=13 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Fujinaga|first1=Ichiro|last2=Hankinson|first2=Andrew|last3=Cumming|first3=Julie|title=An Interchange Format for Optical Music Recognition Applications|journal=11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference. Utrecht, Netherlands|date=2010|pages=51–56|citeseerx=10.1.1.232.3147}}</ref>

MEI uses [[permissive software licence]]; the [[Educational Community License]], Version 2.0, (related to the [[Apache license]], 2.0).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://music-encoding.org/about/|title=What is MEI?}}</ref>

[http://www.verovio.org Verovio] is a [[Portable application|portable]], lightweight library for rendering Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) files by transformation into [[Scalable Vector Graphics]] format, released under the [[LGPL]]v3 license.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.verovio.org/ |title=Home |website=verovio.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Liska |first1=Urs |title=Music Encoding Conference 2016 (Part 1) |url=http://lilypondblog.org/2016/05/music-encoding-conference-2016-part-1/ |website=Scores of Beauty |publisher=LilyPond blog |accessdate=23 November 2018}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Music Markup Language]]
* [[Notation Interchange File Format]] (NIFF)
* [[MusicXML]]

==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.music-encoding.org/ Website of the Music Encoding Initiative]
* [https://music-encoding.org/resources/tutorials.html MEI Tutorials]
* [http://www.verovio.org Verovio, an MEI rendering library]
* [https://github.com/kb-dk/MerMEId MerMEId, a Metadata editor]
* [https://mei-friend.mdw.ac.at mei-friend, a browser-based editor for music encodings]
* [http://www.cemfi.de/research/mpm MPM - Music Performance Markup, a format for performance modelling on the basis of MEI data]

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[[Category:Music notation file formats]]
[[Category:Musical markup languages]]
[[Category:Musical notation]]
[[Category:Musicology]]
[[Category:Digital humanities]]
[[Category:XML-based standards]]
[[Category:Markup languages]]
[[Category:Metadata standards]]
[[Category:Data modeling languages]]

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