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mei-friend: An Interactive Web-based Editor for Digital Music Encodings

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  • cris.virtual.department
    University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
    University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
  • cris.virtual.orcid
    0000-0003-1502-1528
    0000-0002-1722-0718
  • dc.contributor.author
    Goebl, Werner
    Weigl, David
  • dc.date.accessioned
    2024-09-05T12:21:03Z
  • dc.date.available
    2024-09-05T12:21:03Z
  • dc.date.issued
    2024-06-11
  • dc.description.abstract
    Digital music encodings are machine-readable representations of music score documents. Beyond the visual information captured by score images or PDFs, music encodings explicitly capture the musical semantics of the score. This makes it possible to use them as research data objects for musicological analyses (Rizo & Marsden, 2019) and to build digital score interfaces for applications in music scholarship, rehearsal, and performance (Pugin, 2018). mei-friend is a friendly, interactive, browser-based editor for music encodings. It opens music encodings in a variety of formats and converts these to MEI, the XML-based format developed by the Music Encoding Initiative, a community of music scholars, librarians, and technologists. Alongside a rich set of interactive editing operations, mei-friend offers specialized functionalities targeted at music scholars, including panels to display facsimile score images and to author score annotations. Collaborative encoding practices are supported through integration with GitHub and Solid, and by remote configuration capabilities via hyperlink (URL parameters). Important MEI community resources are also integrated, supporting direct reference to documentation (Music Encoding Initiative, 2023) for currently-selected elements, and auto-completion and validation using the MEI-XML schema definitions. Also provided are curated links to openly-licensed reference music encodings. The editor targets an audience of music scholars, students, librarians, performers, and enthusiasts. It is not conceived as a replacement for commercial music notation software, but rather as a complement opening up the affordances of machine-readable semantic music encodings to a broader audience. Our tool is the only currently available editor with comprehensive, native MEI-editing support in Common Western Music Notation (CMN). Editing directly in MEI avoids conversion errors (due to bugs or inherent differences in supported features) from other formats while supporting interactive use of those capabilities of the MEI schema that other formats simply do not support, such as editorial markup, annotation, and facsimile integration.
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  • dc.identifier.citation
    Goebl, Werner; Weigl, David: mei-friend: An Interactive Web-based Editor for Digital Music Encodings. In: Journal of Open Source Software (2024). Journal of Open Source Software, 9(98), 6002. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.06002.
  • dc.identifier.doi
    10.21105/joss.06002
  • dc.identifier.uri
    https://dspace.mdw.ac.at/handle/123456789/14557
  • dc.language.iso
    en
  • dc.relation.issn
    2475-9066
  • dc.relation.journal
    Journal of Open Source Software
  • dc.relation.product
    mei-friend
  • dc.rights.license
    CC-BY-4.0
  • dc.title
    mei-friend: An Interactive Web-based Editor for Digital Music Encodings
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  • mdwlis.subject.oefosDeKunstzweig
    NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN - Informatik
    SOZIALWISSENSCHAFTEN - Psychologie
    MUSIK - Interpretation – instrumental
    GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN - Kunstwissenschaften
    SOZIALWISSENSCHAFTEN - Andere Sozialwissenschaften
    NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN - Physik, Astronomie
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  • oaire.citation.issue
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  • oaire.citation.volume
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  • oairecerif.author.affiliation
    University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
    University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna