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.
- music-encoding.github.io: The repository for the MEI website at music-encoding.org.
- encoding-tools: The repository that hosts tools for modifying MEI files and conversion of MEI to/from other encoding formats.
- docker-mei: The repository that hosts the Docker image for anything concerning the MEI build process.
- sample-encodings: The repository that provides sample encodings and uses cases of MEI.
Note
The following repositories are automatically generated and should not be edited directly. Any changes should be made to the main music-encoding repository.
- 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.
A live version of the MEI Guidelines is available on the MEI Website in the ’Documentation‘ menu:
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