This group is devoted to a discussion of topics related to music encoding, and is an extension of the Music Encoding Initiative channels on MEI-L and website, https://music-encoding.org/.

The Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) is a community-driven effort to define a system for encoding musical documents in a machine-readable structure. MEI brings together specialists from various music research communities, including technologists, librarians, historians, and theorists in a common effort to define best practices for representing a broad range of musical documents and structures.

The official MEI mailing list, MEI-L, is used to inform the community about upcoming events, discuss possible improvements for MEI, evaluate encoding strategies and models, and get support from the full community. The list is open to anyone for subscription, and everyone is welcome to join MEI-L by subscribing to: https://lists.uni-paderborn.de/mailman/listinfo/mei-l.

MEI has a Slack channel that is used for discussion, questions, announcements, and collaboration, https://music-encoding.slack.com. Visit this page for additional details: https://music-encoding.org/community/community-contacts.html.

MEI is hosted by the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz.

CANCELED: Music Encoding Conference 26-29 May 2020 at Tufts University

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      Anna E. Kijas
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      @akijas

      We have been monitoring the spread of COVID-19 (Corona Virus) and have decided to make the difficult decision of canceling the Music Encoding Conference scheduled for May 26-29, 2020 at Tufts University. As of March 11, 2020, the United States issued a travel ban on some travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days due to the COVID-19 (Corona virus). This week Tufts University issued an announcement to its community that all classes will be held remotely, asking all students to return to their homes by March 16 and not return until after the end of the spring semester. The University also identified its own restrictions on travel for employees and students, including cancelling gatherings and events at least through April 30. The health and safety of our entire community is important and while we have been looking forward to hosting this conference and welcoming so many colleagues and friends to Tufts University we must cancel the in-person conference. The Organizing, Program Committees, and MEI Board are exploring alternative options for a selection of the planned papers, presentations, workshops and meetings to be offered online and within the next week we will be in touch with everyone who has registered already or planned to attend the conference. We will make another announcement here on MEI-L by then.

      • Anna Kijas, Chair, Organizing Committee
      • Richard Freedman, Chair, Program Committee
      • Elsa De Luca, Chair, MEI Board
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