Welcome to the RISM Community!

The RISM database is used by researchers, musicians, librarians, students, music antiquarians, and our active contributors worldwide as a foundation for their work and to contribute new knowledge about the musical past. We have assembled some resources here to enable the wider RISM community to use our tools effectively.

Directory of RISM Library Sigla: Search RISM’s abbreviations for libraries, archives, and collections with historical music holdings, or request a new siglum.
RISM for Researchers (coming soon): Tools for people using RISM for research, scholarship, university projects, or data analysis.
RISM for Librarians: Services for information professionals to support cataloging and metadata as well as reference and instruction.
RISM for Musicians (coming soon): Resources for musicians, performers, conductors, or concert organizers to find original sources for performance.
Muscat: Information for RISM contributors about our cataloging program, tutorials, and workshops.
Data Services: Ways of using RISM data in external catalogs, projects, or research.
User Studies: Research carried out by the Editorial Center in 2014–2015 about the users of the RISM Catalog.
Share Your News with RISM: Let us know if you have any discoveries, publications, projects, announcements, or other news that would be of interest to the wider RISM community.
How Can I Participate in RISM?: Find out the different ways you can contribute to RISM.

Images:
(1) Workshop in Shanghai, 2018, sponsored by RISM Chinese-Language Region. Photo: Vivian Zhang
(2, 4) Workshop in Frankfurt sponsored by the Editorial Center, 2018. Photo: RISM Zentralredaktion
(3) Participants of the conference “Documenting Musical Sources in Latin America,” Mainz, 2016. Photo: RISM Zentralredaktion