Ollie Cargill’s MCA Project: Medieval Music

Week 7: Challenges to Music Curation

For this week’s task I revised the metadata in week 5’s MEI file by adding a Work Description. In workList I added information about the genre and where / when the original piece was written. Here is what this looks like in the mei file:

I then added a Creative Commons license to my transcribed piece and coded this into the MEI file. I chose to add the CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license because this is the license that the original piece has on IMSLP. This allowed me to redistribute the material and adapt/build-upon the material for my portfolio. However with this license I am not allowed to commercialise on the redistributed material. I also had to pick this because if I redistribute material that has this license in the first place, then the new material must retain the license. This is known as ShareAlike (SA). I must also give appropriate credit to the original creator (Attribution) which I have done by adding metadata to the MEI file. Here is a link to the Creative Commons license. I used the authURI attribute to link to the website. Here is what this looks like in the MEI file:

For the next task I used CSS to format the metadata in a readable and organised manner on the Verovio render. Here is what the metadata looked like before I formatted it using CSS:

Here is the link to the Verovio render that has been formatted using CSS: Styled metadata.
Here is a link to the CETEIcean.css file.
I struggled with getting the metadata to show exactly how I wanted it to on the page, however the data is still readable and makes sense. I styled the title and subtitle with some CSS elements like color and outline-style. I used persName to display “Written by” and “Composed” on the render so the reader would be aware of what the information means. I would have liked the other metadata to display in a more ordered and readble manner, however I struggled to make this work.