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6 | 6 | <title>Let's Encode! Crowd-encoding and validation of music scores</title> |
7 | | -<meta name="description" content="Let's Encode! is a citizen-science project for crowd-based encoding and validation of music scores in the MEI format, built around the free mei-friend editor."> |
| 7 | +<meta name="description" content="Let's Encode! is a citizen-science project for crowd-based encoding and validation of music scores in the MEI format, with a family of free, browser-based tools for different levels of expertise — from the mei-friend MEI-XML editor to graphical interfaces that need no MEI knowledge."> |
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205 | 205 | <p> |
206 | | - Digital musical scores are essential tools in both performance and musicology. |
| 206 | + Digital music scores are essential tools in both performance and musicology. |
207 | 207 | But standard PDFs and scanned sheet music can't easily be processed by computers: |
208 | | - musicians instantly grasp their meaning, yet the musical <em>semantics</em> stay |
| 208 | + musicians instantly grasp their meaning, yet the music <em>semantics</em> stay |
209 | 209 | hidden from machines. |
210 | 210 | </p> |
211 | 211 | <p> |
212 | | - Let's Encode! builds infrastructure around |
213 | | - <a href="https://mei-friend.mdw.ac.at" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mei-friend</a>, |
214 | | - a free, browser-based music encoding editor, to enable crowd-based encoding and |
215 | | - validation of musical scores. This lets interested people take part in digitising |
216 | | - music — without extensive technical knowledge or administrative barriers — and |
217 | | - helps build a shared, openly reusable library of encoded music. |
| 212 | + Let's Encode! builds infrastructure for crowd-based encoding and validation of |
| 213 | + music scores — a range of free, browser-based tools pitched at different levels |
| 214 | + of technical expertise, from the |
| 215 | + <a href="https://mei-friend.mdw.ac.at" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mei-friend</a> |
| 216 | + MEI-XML editor to graphical interfaces that need no MEI knowledge at all, so the right person can |
| 217 | + use the right tool for the right task. This lets interested people take part in |
| 218 | + digitising music — without extensive technical knowledge or administrative |
| 219 | + barriers — and helps build a shared, openly reusable library of encoded music. |
218 | 220 | </p> |
219 | 221 | <p>We've tried to remove every obstacle between you and the music you want to encode:</p> |
220 | 222 | <ul> |
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