Music Encoding Initiative

http://the-fr.org/id/file-format/1418

Name: Music Encoding Initiative

Version:

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.

Deprecated: false

MIMEType:

PUID: fmt/965

sameAs : PRONOM: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/965

Extension: mei

Magic: true

Container Magic: false

Binary Magic: true

Signature Priority Over:

• http://the-fr.org/id/file-format/554

See Also (e.g. Wikidata, Library of Congress):

• http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q50308939
• https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000502.shtml

Software that can read the format:

• http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q63974901

Alias:

Class: http://the-fr.org/def/format-registry/FileFormat

Type: http://the-fr.org/def/format-registry/Audio

SPARQL: http://the-fr.org/public/sparql/endpoint.php?query=describe+%3Chttp://the-fr.org/id/file-format/1418%3E&output=&jsonp=&key=&show_inline=1