Contact:
Perry Roland, University of Virginia Library
434.982.2702 or pdr4h at virginia dot edu

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July 2009

University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities Hosts Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) Workshop

      A meeting of international musicologists and librarians took place in July 2009 to evaluate and revise the MEI schema. Erin Mayhood, the Head of the University of Virginia Music Library, and Roland are co-PIs on the American portion of the grant, while Joachim Veit and Johannes Kepper of the Universität Paderborn are co-PIs in Germany. Daniel Pitti, IATH's associate director, is experienced in the development and implementation of mark-up schema standards and is serving as an advisor to the group. The projects is jointly funded by the NEH and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation).

A second meeting is scheduled at the Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar Detmold/Paderborn in Detmold, Germany in spring, 2010.

April 2009

University of Virginia Library Receives DFG/NEH Grant for Digitizing Music Notation

 

Please watch this space for announcements regarding MEI.