Edirom

The Edirom-Projects central focus is "the development and communication of software and concepts on the subject digital edition of music", like they say about themselves. The need for digital standards for data in general was identified in the 80's, but the developments concentrated mostly on data in textbased forms. One of the developed standards is now known as XML. Many modern data structures today are based on XML because of it's ability to store not only the data itself but the metadata too- without limitation. In the year 1999 a format was created, to serve the functionality of XML standards to historians which are specialized in music and other scientists which are scholary involved in music from componists to students: The „Music Encoding Initiative“ (MEI). The Edirom project tries to make the standards more visible to the public and provides and develops tools for musicians and scientists, which make use of the powerful MEI format.