Requirements Matrix and Architectural Proposals

Hi Group,

To stimulate discussion in Frankfurt (and, of course, on this list) I have
published a couple of documents:

1. A Requirements Matrix now sets forth a set of intermediate requirements
in various categories, These are derived from the already-published User
Stories and are explicitly traced back to them. This list is still in a
rather crude state (and is not prioritized or fully scoped) but I found it
helpful to make and to think about:

    https://www.w3.org/community/music-notation/wiki/Requirements_Matrix

2. The former "Technical Requirements" document is now retitled
"Architectural Proposals" (as there are a set of technical requirements in
the Requirements Matrix):

    https://www.w3.org/community/music-notation/wiki/Architectural_Proposals

These proposals are an expression of my present opinion. They certainly
don't reflect a concensus viewpoint -- at least not yet! -- but are
intended as a starting point for thinking. I've published these thoughts in
an unsanctioned state because I believe this is a good point in time for us
to be discussing approaches and issues that have not been addressed to date
in MusicXML, MEI or elsewhere.

In many cases, my starting point for some proposal is some idea that has
been quite successful in other realms, notably in Web and W3C standards. I
have this orientation not because I think everything useful happens online
or in a browser, but because the Web has given rise to an explosion of
document exchange, expressivity and portability. In turn, this explosion
has forced certain important problems in document modelling and structure
to be considered and addressed. I think the solutions can be made
completely portable across OSs, online/offline contexts, and programming
languages, as they have elsewhere. Of course, many problems remain, and
some of them will be specific to music -- but not all of them.

Both documents are now linked from the main Wiki page.

.            .       .    .  . ...Joe

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