The Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) is an open-source 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.
Here is a quick overview of our frequently accessed repositories and their contents:
- music-encoding: The main repository that includes the source for the MEI schemata and guidelines.
- schema: The repository that holds the official MEI Schema files.
- guidelines: The repository that holds the MEI guidelines for the latest stable and development versions.
- music-encoding.github.io: The repository for the MEI website at music-encoding.org.
- sample-encodings: The repository that provides sample encodings and uses cases of MEI.
- encoding-tools: The repository that hosts tools for modifying MEI files and conversion of MEI to/from other encoding formats.
A live version of the MEI Guidelines is available on the MEI Website in the ’Documentation‘ menu:
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