Re: Notation References and Addressability

Hi Joe,

Thanks for your comments.

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Joe Berkovitz <joe@noteflight.com> wrote:
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>
> When I think of addressability and the Web, I tend to think in terms of
> pointers (stable references from one document to another, for example the
> #fragment notation used in HTML documents).
>

The difference between this and an API such as EMA is that the API doesn't
require control of the source documents, e.g. you shouldn't need to add an
"anchor" in the document to be able to refer to a section. This is in
keeping with a Linked Data approach to annotation.


> There are many possible APIs that can be used to dereference such
> pointers, but I think deciding the nature and structure of a "pointer" is a
> bigger question than the API mechanism. We can figure it out better once we
> understand all the things people want to do with pointers.
>

I agree - happy to re-open this can of worms when we have a few more things
figured out :)

Best,
Raff



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> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Raffaele Viglianti <
> raffaeleviglianti@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hello all.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Joe Berkovitz <joe@noteflight.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> *Musicologist, within one document, wants to reference a specific
>>> element, range or position of a work in the same or a different document
>>> using some kind of anchor construct. *
>>>
>>> By the way, the fact that this case is "Musicologist" doesn't mean that
>>> no other roles would want to do this same thing -- just that the use case
>>> came up while thinking about musicological tasks.
>>>
>>
>> Related to this point, I wanted to mention that the Enhancing Music
>> notation Addressability (EMA) project has defined a URL scheme and API to
>> "address" (or reference) a specific portion of music notation based on the
>> notions of measure, staff, and beat (with the aim of making the scheme
>> independent of a specific representation format).
>>
>> We have a first draft of the API here:
>> https://github.com/umd-mith/ema/blob/master/docs/api.md
>> And we have an example implementation that works on MEI documents (demo:
>> http://mith.us/ema/omas )
>> The API aims at being format-independent, so implementations can also be
>> written for MusicXML and the new format that will result from this working
>> group.
>>
>> Since referencing a specific portion of music notation seems to be an
>> interest of this group, I would be curious to hear what you think of this
>> approach.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Raff Viglianti
>>
>>
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