History of MEI
§how it all
started
§work on XML music
markup begun (2000), originally named
Music Description Language (MDL)
§activities – ISMIR
(2000, 2003), Int'l Conf. on Musical Applications
using XML (2002), MusicNetwork Notation Workshop (2003), OASIS Music Notation Technical Committee (2003), Online Chopin Variorum Edition meeting and white paper (2004)
§current version is
1.6 beta (2005), version 1.7 beta (2006)