pweiss@iwarp.intel.com (Paul Weiss (pweiss@iwarp.intel.com)) (09/13/90)
Hi. There are a couple of other standards efforts which may be interesting to readers of this group. There are two ANSI committees, both involving Charles Goldfarb (IBM ARC) and Steve Newcombe (Fla. S. U.), which are attempting to create standards based on SGML. The elder is a group which is defining a music representation language. The idea here to to come up with a representation which is strong enough and general enough that all the interesting attributes of the performance are captured, and that the interpretation of the representation can vary (widely) based on the consumer. That is, if the consumer is a notation program, it will eat the representation and produce notation. A performance processor will eat the representation and make sounds, perhaps by compiling the representation into a MIDI stream, and sending that stream out a hardware port. Other producers/consumers might be music analysis and algorithmic composition programs, and instructional (CBT) music programs. The representation is inherently temporal (as is music) and oriented toward multimedia, so that it can represent opera, for instance. The second committee is an outgrowth of the first. It is chartered with the responsibility to standardize on a transportable representation for hypertext. Needless to say, both are politically "hot" areas, with significant discussion about whether even the basic approach is correct, and whether there is enough experience in these areas to even evaluate a standard. Nevertheless, both are ongoing, ANSI-blessed committees, and will ultimately produce standards. Both committees are actively soliciting input, and working members. For futher information on either committee and/or standard, contact Steve Newcomb Associate Director Center for Music Research Florida State U., School of Music Tallahassee, Fla., 32306-2098 srn%cmr@edu.ufl.cis.bikini School phone: (904)644-3424 Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Weiss <- Mangler, systems software, Intel/CMU iWarp project pweiss@iWarp.intel.com <- I wouldn't even try the "reply" key, were I you. (503)629-6371 <- ... as in "webby feets" Standard disclaimer: Yep. <- Strange powers speak through me, but Intel doesn't ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Weiss <- Mangler, systems software, Intel/CMU iWarp project pweiss@iWarp.intel.com <- I wouldn't even try the "reply" key, were I you. (503)629-6371 <- ... as in "webby feets"