Contact: History of MEI
Seeing the need for a comprehensive markup language in the music community, in 1999, Perry Roland of the University of Virginia set about creating an XML schema (DTD) for the representation of music notation. Eventually this DTD became known as MEI because it was influenced by the same principles that guided the creation of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). His interest in this task developed from his education and training as a musician (M.A., 1986, Music Composition, UVa) and librarian (M.L.S., 1995, UNCG). Mr. Roland presented his initial work at the first International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval in 2000. The following list of professional activities where Mr. Roland has made presentations demonstrates that since that time interest in MEI has been steadily growing.
- Musical Applications using XML (MAX) conference, Milan, 2002
- MusicNetwork Notation Workshop, Leeds, 2003
- ISMIR, Baltimore, 2003
- Online Chopin Variorum Edition (OCVE), Philadelphia, 2004
- Digital Humanities conference, Urbana-Champaign, 2007
- TEI Members' Meeting, College Park, 2007