Goebl, Werner; Lewis, David; Page, Kevin R.; Pugin, Laurent and Weigl, David M.. 2025. 'Annotations for MIR with Verovio and mei-friend'. In: ISMIR 2025: The 26th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference. Daejeon, Korea, Republic of 21 - 25 September 2025. [Conference or Workshop Item] (Forthcoming)

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Abstract or Description

Digital annotations can be used by MIR systems to record, contextualise, and visualise analytical outputs, or to encode and structure ground truth for processing as an input. We present two related recent developments for the annotation of digital music scores. The first concerns Verovio, a popular music engraving software embedded within many web-based notation tools, previously lacking the capability to flexibly process and display annotations. We describe a new implementation for handling Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) XML <annot> elements in Verovio, providing default visualisations alongside identification of annotated elements in SVG graphical output for extensible customisation. Secondly, we introduce mei-friend, an interactive editor for MEI with an embedded Verovio notation viewer, with additional interface support for the creation and editing of <annot> annotations.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Other)
Additional Information:	Funding: Implementation of annotations in Verovio was made possible by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding of the Annote: Digital Notation Annotation for RISM project (reference AH/Z506278/1). Further extension and refinements were supported by a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant Elgar’s Themes: New Pathways for Analysis, Interpretation and Engagement (reference RPG-2024-080). Development of mei-friend is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under the projects Signature Sound Vienna (DOI: 10.55776/P34664) and E-LAUTE (DOI: 10.55776/I6019).
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Computing
Dates:	Date Event 17 July 2025 Accepted September 2025 Published
Event Location:	Daejeon, Korea, Republic of
Date range:	21 - 25 September 2025
Item ID:	39272
Date Deposited:	24 Jul 2025 13:29
Last Modified:	24 Jul 2025 13:29
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/39272

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