music encoding initiative

The Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) is a collaborative effort to create standardized digital formats for representing musical scores and related data. It enables musicians, researchers, and archivists to encode, share, and analyze music in a consistent, machine-readable way. By doing so, MEI helps preserve musical works, facilitates digital analysis, and supports research across musicology, history, and performance. Essentially, MEI provides a structured language for digital music documents, making complex musical information accessible and manipulable in digital environments.