Digital Music Notation Data Model and Prototype Delivery System

数字乐谱数据模型和原型交付系统

• 批准号: 173815306
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Joachim Veit
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2009-12-31 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/173815306?language=en
• 关键词: Digital; Music; Notation; Data; Model

This proposal requests funding for a multi-year, bilateral, collaborative effort to produce a Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) demonstration project and to engage in dissemination efforts that will establish MEI as the predominant academic encoding standard for music notation. The encoding of notated music is an essential prerequisite for all future handling of music within digital environments. While a number of attempts at music encoding models have been made, no previous model is capable of addressing the wide variety of musical notations employed from the medieval period to the present day and of handling the full flexibility and ambiguity of written musical notation. During the Digital Music Notation Data Model and Prototype Delivery System project funded by a 2009-2010 DFG/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program: Bilateral Symposia and Workshops grant, an international advisory board determined that MEI had the potential to address these critical problems. As a result of the development of standards and technical workflows resulting from the symposia, MEI is ready for adoption by the musical scholarly community.The development of a demonstration project together with strategic dissemination efforts will greatly facilitate the rapid adoption of MEI. Both efforts are targeted toward making scholars aware of how to get their data into MEI and of what can be done with their data afterward. Thus, the demonstration project will include basic software for transforming material into MEI, a searchable archive of representative MEI-encoded data, and a prototype delivery system for items in the archive. While the project will provide a varied and representative sampling of material for the archive, its maturation will also require an active community of scholars interested in encoding beyond the project. Our dissemination efforts – presentations at professional conferences, the provision of workshops, the formal foundation of a governing council, and a first "MEI Members Meeting" – will all contribute to the establishment and expansion of this community base. In turn, we expect that the widening community will itself begin to attract new users and trigger the development of additional tools for MEI outside this project. The potential impact of MEI on the musical scholarly community is vast. With an appropriately powerful and flexible musical notation standard in place, we will for the first time be able to support the automated processing of music data and the comprehensive storage of data for a broad range for musicological purposes. This will allow the scholarly community to overcome the limitations of today's printed editions by extending the potential of digital editions, to implement new methodological techniques for music research, and facilitate collaboration between musicologists by providing a standardized means of data interchange.

该提案要求资助一项多年期双边合作项目，以制定音乐编码倡议 (MEI) 示范项目，并参与传播工作，将 MEI 确立为音乐符号的主要学术编码标准。是未来在数字环境中处理音乐的一个重要先决条件，尽管人们已经对音乐编码模型进行了许多尝试，但以前的模型都无法解决从中世纪时期到现在使用的各种音乐符号。处理完整的在 2009-2010 年 DFG/NEH 双边数字人文计划：双边研讨会和研讨会资助的数字乐谱数据模型和原型交付系统项目期间，国际顾问委员会确定 MEI 具有潜力。为了解决这些关键问题，MEI 已准备好供音乐学术界采用。战略传播工作将极大地促进 MEI 的快速采用。这两项工作的目的都是为了让学者们了解如何将他们的数据输入 MEI 以及之后可以用他们的数据做什么。因此，示范项目将包括用于转换的基础软件。虽然该项目将为档案提供多样化且具有代表性的材料样本，但其成熟还需要一个活跃的社区。对编码感兴趣的学者我们的传播工作——在专业会议上的演讲、提供研讨会、理事会的正式成立以及第一次“MEI 成员会议”——都将为这个社区基础的建立和扩大做出贡献。预计不断扩大的社区本身将开始吸引新用户，并引发该项目之外的 MEI 额外工具的开发。有了适当强大且灵活的乐谱标准，MEI 对音乐学术界的潜在影响是巨大的。我们将第一次能够支持音乐数据的自动处理和广泛的音乐学目的数据的综合存储这将使学术界通过扩展数字版本的潜力来克服当今印刷版本的局限性，以实施新的方法论技术。音乐研究，并通过提供标准化的数据交换方式促进音乐学家之间的协作。