Format
Music Encoding Initiative
Summary
- Name
- Music Encoding Initiative
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/965
- Format type
-
- Audio
- Text (Mark-up)
- Description
- The Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) is an open-source effort to define a system for encoding musical documents in a machine-readable structure. MEI is formalised in the MEI schema, a core set of rules for recording physical and intellectual characteristics of music notation documents expressed as an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) schema. PRONOM currently does not distinguish between different versions of MEI.
- File extensions
-
mei - Source
- Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire - Lausanne / Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire - Lausanne
Relationships
- Has priority over
- Is subtype of
Internal signatures
Music Encoding Initiative
- Note
- BOF: ASCII header - <?xml version="1.0" , followed by mei namespace declaration xmlns="http://www.music-encoding.org/ns/mei Schema: http://music-encoding.org/downloads/latest-release/
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
3C3F786D6C2076657273696F6E3D(22|27)312E30(22|27)- Endianness
- None
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 20
- Max offset
- 512
- Byte Sequence
786D6C6E733D22687474703A2F2F7777772E6D757369632D656E636F64696E672E6F72672F6E732F6D6569- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Added in V88
- Release date
- 27 September 2016
Music Encoding Initiative: Signature requested by Bibliotheque cantonale et universitaire BCU Lausanne.
Music Encoding Initiative: Full entry added. Submitted by Bibliotheque cantonale et universitaire BCU Lausanne.