General information

The most comprehensive literature is the book Beyond MIDI

There is an overview The Computational Score by Francesco Giomi.

Perry Roland: Extensible Markup Language for Music Information Retrieval This paper evaluates the role of standards in information exchange and suggests the adoption of XML standards for music representation and meta-data to serve as the basis for music information retrieval.

A good source for file formats is www.wotsit.org/ . Among them there is a collection of music formats. Dot What!? also covers many file extensions.

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