GitHub organisational changes We believe that any remaining issues arising from the move from the w3c GitHub organisation to w3c-cg have now been resolved. However, we think that there is more we could do in future to protect against these … Continue reading
Fermatas Fermatas (issue #106) are now complete, and can be found in the specification here. One missing detail is that we do not currently encode both the orientation of the fermata relative to the staff as well as the direction … Continue reading
GitHub organisation changes The W3C has decided to migrate Community Group GitHub repositories from the w3c organisation to the w3c-cg organisation, to make their status clearer. This results in the public URLs for specifications etc. having changed. In general this … Continue reading
Meetings We have decided to move the co-chair meeting to a bi-weekly cadence on Wednesdays, starting 8 April 2026. Our Tuesday meetings will remain, but will be purely focused on MNX specification issues. MusicXML Karim has started working on the … Continue reading
Community Group meeting A reminder that we will have a virtual meeting next Tuesday, 17 March 2026 at 4pm UTC to which all Community Group members are invited. This meeting is a chance for the co-chairs to provide an update … Continue reading
SMuFL Karim has some ideas for changing the metadata and tools for working with them, so Daniel encouraged him to open issues for those things MNX The schema now has an official version number, and the version number is incremented … Continue reading
Co-chairs A point of clarity: following the appointment of Karim Ratib as the new MusicXML specification editor, he is also now co-chair of the Community Group, joining Adrian and Daniel. Myke is no longer co-chair, but remains closely involved in … Continue reading
Forthcoming Community Group meeting Everybody in the Community Group is invited to attend a virtual meeting on Tuesday 17 March 2026 at 4pm UTC (5pm CET, 11am EST, 8am PST). This meeting will give the first opportunity to hear from … Continue reading
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Karim Ratib as the new MusicXML specification editor, with immediate effect. He succeeds Michael Cuthbert, who will remain one of the three co-chairs of the Community Group, but will now focus his … Continue reading
MNX For applications that need hints for the encoding of ties across repeat endings or other non-contiguous notes (issue #476), we have now added a targetType attribute to the tie object. For encoding whole measure/bar rests (issue #475) we propose … Continue reading
