2024 10 10 MerMEId Community Call #33

Participants

Peter Stadler, Kristina Richts-Matthaei, Clemens Gubsch, Matthias Richter, Annabella Schmitz, Claudius Teodorescu, Laurent Pugin, Balázs Mikusi, Kevin Page, David Lewis

Reports/Notes

• MerMEIding project
  • Team introduction
  • Report on the initial phase of the project (Initial considerations, ...)
  • Report MerMEIding presentation at the GfM-Jahrestagung in Cologne *Thoughts about the revised MerMEId:
    • user data storing in Git repositories - advantages: user activity log; decentralized, thus redundant, storage; versioning of data;
    • editor as a static webpage, available both in our website, and in user's website;
    • editor's data format to be RDF, with exports to XML (MEI + friends), etc.
• MerMEId Success Story for N4C
• Collection of MEI files used with thematic catalogues of selected composers’ works (Carl Nielsen, Johann Adolph Scheibe, Niels Wilhelm Gade, Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann) is now available for download at the Royal Danish Library’s research data repository: https://loar.kb.dk/handle/1902/49096
• Report of Haydn Digital Catalog: MerMEId Instance has been set up etc.

Dates/Preview

• KickOff Meeting MerMEIding?
• CDMD is currently preparing an abstract for a contribution to MerMEId as part of the eHumanities working group (20./21. November 2024, AdW Mainz)
• Contribution to deRSE2025 (CL + CT), Call for Contributions: https://events.hifis.net/event/1741/abstracts/ (Deadline: October 28th)
• Do we want to present something at MEC 2025 (Tuesday, 3 June - Friday, 6 June 2025 at City University of London, UK)? Call for proposals: https://music-encoding.org/conference/2025/call/ (Deadline: December 13th)
• or at the IAML conference 2025 in Salzburg (6 – 11 July 2025): https://www.iaml.info/call-for-papers (Deadline: December 15th)?

Development/Open Issues

• Issue 175: Adaption to MEI5.0
• Coordination of further developments with the Liszt project (Report of working meeting on October 7th)
• Milestones

Next Meeting

Thursday, November 14th, 4 pm CEST