Metadata scope
Each individual work is documented as follows in MEI metadata. (For a technical documentation on how to enter these metadata in MerMEId, see guidelines.)
General metadata
- incipits
- identification
- scoring (abbreviations as used in RISM)
- place and date of composition
- bibliography
Music
This section describes the individual movements of the work.
- one entry for each movement
- consecutive number (fictitious)
- title
- tempo
- key
- meter
- extent in bars
- scoring
- orchestral incipit, comprising all instruments and voices
- if applicable, a table describing individual sections (i.e., parts of the movement with distinct key, meter, scoring …)
Sources
This section describes the known sources of the work.
- source type (autograph manuscript, manuscript copy, print)
- classification using a range of keywords
- location (library siglum, shelfmark, link to digitized version)
- RISM identifier
- dating
- one or more title pages (each title page is labeled by its position and represents a diplomatic transcription)
- physical description
- extent (number of parts or pages/folios)
- approximate size in cm (height x width)
- number of staves per page, rastral size (if known)
- components and notes
- individual parts with number of written pages in parentheses
- miscellaneous notes