Re: Co-chair meeting minutes: November 9, 2022 [via Music Notation Community Group]

Dear all,

I wanted to write to say how honored I am to be building on the amazing legacy of Michael Good, the W3C Music Notation Community Group, and all prior MusicXML authors and contributors in continuing the work of Michael as editor of MusicXML.  And thankful to anyone else who volunteered to be considered for the position.

MusicXML is a mature spec.  I know that the community values consistency and stability in this important format.  At the same time there are areas that are still underdefined that I hope to give some direction on (my personal pet first project is in standardizing the “<supports>” tag for better interoperability) and places where improvements in MusicXML metadata can make it a stronger preservation format in addition to its amazing interchange capabilities.  I also hope to continue to improve Reinhold Kainhofer’s MusicXML Test Suite (at https://github.com/cuthbertLab/musicxmlTestSuite — but maybe can be eventually moved to W3C?), originally created for GNU Lilypond, so that users can test output of their parsing ability.

For those who don’t know me, I’m an associate professor of music at MIT, working on computational music theory and medieval music. I’ve been working with MusicXML since 0.6 and am so grateful for everything it has helped me to do with my projects, including music21 (Python and Javascript), ArtusiMusic.com<http://ArtusiMusic.com>, and so much more.

As a co-chair across W3C Music Notation projects, I’m hoping to work with Daniel and Adrian on further developments in SMuFL and MNX, in particular in showing particular use cases for MNX as an internal program format that can quickly unleash notational creativity in a way that MusicXML and other encoding formats make more difficult.

Thanks to all who support the Community Group and MusicXML in particular.

Best,
Myke Cuthbert

p.s. — look for a separate message in my role as MIT professor in a minute.

On Nov 8, 2022, at 12:02, W3C Community Development Team <team-community-process@w3.org<mailto:team-community-process@w3.org>> wrote:

Co-chair and MusicXML spec editor appointment



Michael Scott Cuthbert has agreed to take on the roles of MusicXML spec editor and co-chair of the W3C Music Notation Community Group to succeed Michael, who is retiring at the start of January 2023. Myke joined today's meeting for the first time. We are delighted to welcome Myke as incoming co-chair and look forward to his contributions to the group's efforts.



MusicXML



In a previous meeting, the idea was posited that the Dolet plug-in for Sibelius might be transferred into the guardianship of the W3C Music Notation Community Group, but the decision has been made that in due course MakeMusic will release the source code for the plug-in in a public GitHub repository licensed under the MIT License.



MNX



Adrian has created issue #287 to cover the proposal for how to encode instrument transposition. There's a lot of detail contained in this proposal and we welcome feedback from the community. Adrian's next step is to try these ideas out in the mnxconverter project with some real MusicXML data to see how it works in practice.



Next meeting



The next co-chairs' meeting will be on Tuesday 22 November 2022.



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