{"author":[{"full_name":"Herold, Kristin","last_name":"Herold","first_name":"Kristin"},{"first_name":"Johannes","id":"1684","last_name":"Kepper","orcid":"0000-0003-4891-260X","full_name":"Kepper, Johannes"},{"first_name":"Ran","last_name":"Mo","full_name":"Mo, Ran"},{"full_name":"Seipelt, Agnes Regina","first_name":"Agnes Regina","id":"24239","last_name":"Seipelt"}],"date_updated":"2024-08-28T14:04:19Z","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"year":"2020","main_file_link":[{"open_access":"1","url":"https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:31963/"}],"type":"conference","publisher":"Humanities Commons","doi":"10.17613/ydbv-e158","date_created":"2024-08-28T11:45:23Z","project":[{"_id":"743","name":"Beethovens Werkstatt - Genetische Textkritik und Digitale Musikedition"}],"department":[{"_id":"874"},{"_id":"538"}],"publication":"Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2020","citation":{"chicago":"Herold, Kristin, Johannes Kepper, Ran Mo, and Agnes Regina Seipelt. “MusicDiff – A Diff Tool for MEI.” In <i>Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2020</i>, edited by Elsa De Luca and Julia Flanders, 59–66. Humanities Commons, 2020. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.17613/ydbv-e158\">https://doi.org/10.17613/ydbv-e158</a>.","bibtex":"@inproceedings{Herold_Kepper_Mo_Seipelt_2020, title={MusicDiff – A Diff Tool for MEI}, DOI={<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.17613/ydbv-e158\">10.17613/ydbv-e158</a>}, booktitle={Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2020}, publisher={Humanities Commons}, author={Herold, Kristin and Kepper, Johannes and Mo, Ran and Seipelt, Agnes Regina}, editor={De Luca, Elsa and Flanders, Julia}, year={2020}, pages={59–66} }","mla":"Herold, Kristin, et al. “MusicDiff – A Diff Tool for MEI.” <i>Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2020</i>, edited by Elsa De Luca and Julia Flanders, Humanities Commons, 2020, pp. 59–66, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.17613/ydbv-e158\">10.17613/ydbv-e158</a>.","short":"K. Herold, J. Kepper, R. Mo, A.R. Seipelt, in: E. De Luca, J. Flanders (Eds.), Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2020, Humanities Commons, 2020, pp. 59–66.","apa":"Herold, K., Kepper, J., Mo, R., &#38; Seipelt, A. R. (2020). MusicDiff – A Diff Tool for MEI. In E. De Luca &#38; J. Flanders (Eds.), <i>Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2020</i> (pp. 59–66). Humanities Commons. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.17613/ydbv-e158\">https://doi.org/10.17613/ydbv-e158</a>","ieee":"K. Herold, J. Kepper, R. Mo, and A. R. Seipelt, “MusicDiff – A Diff Tool for MEI,” in <i>Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2020</i>, 2020, pp. 59–66, doi: <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.17613/ydbv-e158\">10.17613/ydbv-e158</a>.","ama":"Herold K, Kepper J, Mo R, Seipelt AR. MusicDiff – A Diff Tool for MEI. In: De Luca E, Flanders J, eds. <i>Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2020</i>. Humanities Commons; 2020:59–66. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.17613/ydbv-e158\">10.17613/ydbv-e158</a>"},"publication_status":"published","abstract":[{"text":"For musicologists, the collation of multiple sources of the same work is a frequent task. By comparing different witnesses, they seek to identify variation, describe dependencies, and ultimately understand the genesis and transmission of (musical) works. Obviously, the need for such comparison is independent from the medium in which a musical work is manifested. In computing, comparing files for difference is a common task, and the well-known Unix utility diff is almost 46 years old. However, diff, like many other such tools, operates on plain text. While many music encoding formats based on plain text exist, formats used in the field of Digital Humanities are typically based on XML. There are dedicated algorithms for comparing XML as well, but they only focus on the syntax of XML, but not the semantic structures modelled into such standards as MEI. MEI seeks to describe musical structures, and the XML syntax is just a means to express those structures. A diff tool for music should focus on comparing musical structures, but not the specifics of their serialization into a file format. In {Beethovens Werkstatt}, a 16-year project focussed on exploring the concepts and requirements of digital genetic editions of music, based on and arguing with examples from Ludwig van Beethoven, a case-bound diff tool for music was developed. The following paper discusses how that specific tool can be generalized, and which use cases such a tool may support.","lang":"eng"}],"status":"public","page":"59–66","editor":[{"last_name":"De Luca","first_name":"Elsa","full_name":"De Luca, Elsa"},{"last_name":"Flanders","first_name":"Julia","full_name":"Flanders, Julia"}],"_id":"55841","keyword":["mec-proceedings","mec-proceedings-2020"],"oa":"1","title":"MusicDiff – A Diff Tool for MEI","user_id":"1684"}