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**Let's Encode!** is a citizen-science project for crowd-based encoding and
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validation of music scores in the [MEI](https://music-encoding.org) (Music
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Encoding Initiative) format. It builds infrastructure around
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[mei-friend](https://mei-friend.mdw.ac.at), a free, browser-based music encoding
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editor, so that anyone can help turn sheet music into rich, machine-readable
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encodings — no specialist training required.
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Encoding Initiative) format. It builds infrastructure spanning a range of free,
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browser-based tools pitched at different levels of technical expertise — from the
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[mei-friend](https://mei-friend.mdw.ac.at) music encoding editor to graphical
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interfaces that need no MEI knowledge at all — so the right person can use the
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right tool for the right task. Anyone can help turn sheet music into rich,
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machine-readable encodings, no specialist training required.
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This repository contains the project's landing page, served at
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**[letsenco.de](https://letsenco.de)**.
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## About the project
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Digital scores are essential to both performance and musicology, but standard
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PDFs and scans can't easily be processed by computers: the musical *semantics*
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PDFs and scans can't easily be processed by computers: the music *semantics*
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stay hidden from machines. Let's Encode! lowers the barrier to encoding that
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meaning by hand, as a crowd:
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<title>Let's Encode! Crowd-encoding and validation of music scores</title>
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Digital musical scores are essential tools in both performance and musicology.
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Digital music scores are essential tools in both performance and musicology.
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But standard PDFs and scanned sheet music can't easily be processed by computers:
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musicians instantly grasp their meaning, yet the musical <em>semantics</em> stay
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musicians instantly grasp their meaning, yet the music <em>semantics</em> stay
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hidden from machines.
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Let's Encode! builds infrastructure around
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<a href="https://mei-friend.mdw.ac.at" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mei-friend</a>,
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a free, browser-based music encoding editor, to enable crowd-based encoding and
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validation of musical scores. This lets interested people take part in digitising
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music — without extensive technical knowledge or administrative barriers — and
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helps build a shared, openly reusable library of encoded music.
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Let's Encode! builds infrastructure for crowd-based encoding and validation of
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music scores — a range of free, browser-based tools pitched at different levels
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of technical expertise, from the
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<a href="https://mei-friend.mdw.ac.at" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mei-friend</a>
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MEI-XML editor to graphical interfaces that need no MEI knowledge at all, so the right person can
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use the right tool for the right task. This lets interested people take part in
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digitising music — without extensive technical knowledge or administrative
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barriers — and helps build a shared, openly reusable library of encoded music.
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<p>We've tried to remove every obstacle between you and the music you want to encode:</p>
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