2015 Year-End Update [via Music Notation Community Group]

2015 has been a major year for music notation standards with the formation of
the W3C Music Notation Community Group. We are now at 222 members, making this
the fifth largest community group at the W3C. Thanks to everybody for your
interest and participation!

We recently started work on a music notation use cases document. This is on the
Music Notation Community Group Wiki, and participants in the Community Group may
edit it.

There are a lot of use cases in this document already. The two things we need
are more complete descriptions for the existing use cases, and coverage for any
use cases we may not have included yet.

We think it is best if people edit the use cases who are either in the role
described by the use case, or are implementing solutions for people in that use
case. For some roles this is pretty easy. Lots of members of this list are
performers, and composers, arrangers, teachers, and students are also easy to
find.

Some roles are more specialized, though. The use cases for musicologists, for
instance, do not have any descriptions yet. The use cases associated with
education, accessibility, and convergence with web and Epub technologies are
also missing descriptions. If you are in one of these roles, or supporting
people in these roles, we especially welcome your contributions to describing
the use cases in more detail. Our headlines and one-paragraph descriptions are a
starting point, but more detail will be needed to have these use cases are
addressed effectively in the future.

This use case work is a first step toward an updated music notation format that
builds on the success of MusicXML 3.0 for music document interchange and expands
it to new uses. In the meantime, though, both MusicXML and SMuFL have some
short-term needs that we want to start addressing later this month or in early
January. These will be MusicXML 3.1 and SMuFL 1.2 updates.

MusicXML 3.1 will be focused on adding greater coverage for musical symbols,
along with targeted bug fixes and feature enhancements. The goal is to maintain
and improve MusicXML 3.0’s high level of document interoperability, without
distracting from the longer-term work of the community group. You can see the
current list of MusicXML 3.1 issues in the MusicXML GitHub repository.

Similarly, SMuFL 1.2 adds coverage for more musical symbols, and addresses other
issues that have been raised by the SMuFL community over the past several
months. You can see the current list of SMuFL 1.2 issues in the SMuFL GitHub
repository.

We have added integration of the GitHub repositories into the
public-music-notation-contrib mailing list so that group contributors will be
notified of progress as the MusicXML 3.1 and SMuFL 1.2 issues are worked through
in GitHub.

Thank you again for all your interest in this group. 2015 has been a year of
transition and new beginnings for music notation standards. We look forward to
2016 when we expect the group to deliver its first updates to the MusicXML and
SMuFL formats, and to start more extensive work on an updated web music notation
format for the future.

Michael Good, Joe Berkovitz, and Daniel Spreadbury
W3C Music Notation Community Group Co-Chairs



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