Music Encoding Initiative (MEI)

This projects includes some experiments in querying MEI/XML with SPARQL Anything.

The queries reuses MEI files from The Catalogue of Carl Nielsen's Works and from the MEI samples-encoding repository.

This project includes examples using open data from the Tate Gallery collection.

In what follows, fx is java -jar sparql-anything-<version>.jar.

An MEI XML in Facade-X/RDF

Transform a complete MEI in RDF:

fx -q queries/toRDF.sparql -o data/toRDF.ttl -f TTL

And with file sample-encodings/MEI_4.0/Music/Complete_examples/Parker-Gillespie_ShawNuff.mei:

fx -q queries/toRDF-parker.sparql -o data/Parker-Gillespie_ShawNuff.ttl -f TTL

File description

fx -q queries/file.sparql -o data/cnw0001-file.csv -f CSV

Bibliography

List bibliographic statements in CNW/cnw001.xml

fx -q queries/bibl.sparql -o data/cnw0001-bibl.csv -f CSV

Draft ontology

Query file CNW/cnw0001.xml and declare OWL classes, object properties, and datatype properties.

fx -q queries/ontology.sparql -o data/ontology.csv -f TTL

Note sequences

This query extract the list of notes from sample-encodings/MEI_4.0/Music/Complete_examples/Parker-Gillespie_ShawNuff.mei.

To see the list in the terminal:

fx -q queries/notes.sparql

staffNo is an optional parameter, otherwise both staffs are returned

fx -q queries/notes.sparql -v staffNo=1

Save as CSV:

fx -q queries/notes.sparql -d data/notes.csv -f CSV