Re: How do I join and/or contribute?

Joseph, if you are interested in text-based music notation, you should take
a look at the abc notation

http://abcnotation.com



On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 2:55 AM, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:

> Dear Joseph,
>
> the music notation group is what we call in the W3C jargon a "Community
> Group". What this means is that anybody can join the group (in contrast to
> the more formal Working and Interest Groups at W3C). It requires you to set
> up a W3C account (which you can do at [1]) and then join the group using
> the 'join' button on the community's home page[2]. You will be signed up to
> the group's mailing list automatically and that is it!
>
> Welcome to the group:-)
>
> Cheers
>
> Ivan
>
> [1] https://www.w3.org/accounts/request
> [2] https://www.w3.org/community/music-notation/
>
> > On 31 Jul 2015, at 02:39 , Joseph Austin <drtechdaddy@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello.
> > I’ve recently learned of the establishment of a W3C group dedicated to
> web standards for music notation.
> >
> > I am a retired professional programmer and professor of Computer
> Science, and a hobby musician.
> > For the past several years I have been working on producing sheet music
> as “text”,
> > including as text on a webpage.
> > A chronicle of my investigations is posted on my website,
> DrTechDaddy.com, in the MUSIC blog.
> >
> > I am currently investigating using text on HTLM Canvas as a vehicle for
> music notation.
> > The model I use for music text is “klavarskribo:”
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klavarskribo,
> > a notation related to player piano-rolls, originally invented to be
> producible with a sort of “musical typewriter”.
> > It features a vertical staff with pitches arranged horizontally on a
> line, and is therefore quite amenable to
> > treating the music as “text”.
> > I have also been using a distinct glyph for each of the twelve tones of
> the chromatic scale, a version of “shape notes” for the chromatic scale, in
> the spirit of “Sacred Harp” and other shape-note systems.
> >
> > I have also been following the activities of the Music Notation Project:
> > http://musicnotation.org
> > musicnotation@googlegroups.com
> > This project is focused on alternative music notations,
> > with emphasis on “isomorphic” notations with 12 distinct “staff”
> positions per “octave”, one for each tone of the chromatic scale, rather
> than the traditional seven positions based on the diatonic scale.
> >
> > I believe standards should be flexible enough to support experimentation
> with novel notations as well as represent traditional notation.
> >
> > In my efforts to produce some semblance of music on a webpage,
> > I have been frustrated by the lack of facilities in HTML to control
> absolute positioning of text elements and characters.
> > Also, I have discovered some browser anomalies in whitespace and
> character overlap handling when attempting to overlap or kern “note”
> glyphs, attach distinct colors to individual glyphs, and control vertical
> spacing on a page.
> > Also, restrictions on access to third-party websites for music fonts
> etc. by javascript limits the otherwise significant flexibility of using
> javascript with canvas to create sheet music.
> >
> > I’m also interested in how these effort may interact with “WebAssembly”
> and successors to MIDI file standards.
> >
> > I would appreciate your guidance as to how I might best offer my ideas
> and talents to your music efforts.
> > For example, might I “join” your organization, and if so, how do I
> further participate?
> >
> > I am acting on my own behalf; I am not affiliated with an institution,
> either commercial or non-profit.
> > I am not seeking monetary compensation; but neither do I have
> significant financial resources for travel, etc.
> >
> > Joseph Austin, PhD
> > DrTechDaddy.com
> > DrTechDaddy@gmail.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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> Ivan Herman, W3C
> Digital Publishing Activity Lead
> Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/
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>
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