1770 Music Encoding Initiative Audio, Text (Mark-up) 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. 218 Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire - Lausanne / Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire - Lausanne 20 Sep 2016 20 Sep 2016 fmt/965 PUID mei File extension 1329 Music Encoding Initiative 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/ 1 Absolute from BOF 0 0 3C3F786D6C2076657273696F6E3D(22|27)312E30(22|27) 1 Absolute from BOF 20 512 786D6C6E733D22687474703A2F2F7777772E6D757369632D656E636F64696E672E6F72672F6E732F6D6569 Has priority over 638 Extensible Markup Language Is subtype of 638 Extensible Markup Language