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 1st RISM meeting, Paris 1953: François Lesure, Vladimir Fedorov, Nanie Bridgman, Nino Pirotta |
| 1960 |
Zentralredaktion in Kassel established |
| 1960–1967 |
Director of the Zentralredaktion: Dr. Friedrich W. Riedel |
| 1960/64 |
First publications of series B: 1960 B/I: François Lesure: Recueils Imprimés XVIe-XVIIe Siècles; 1964 B/II: François Lesure: Recueils Imprimés XVIIIe Siècle. Since then more than 30 volumes have been published; see the RISM publications |
| 1962–1987 |
Financial support from the City of Kassel |
| 1964–1979 |
Financial support from the Ford Foundation |
| 1965–1981 |
Financial support from Stiftung Volkswagenwerk Hannover |
| 1968–1976 |
Director of the Zentralredaktion: Dr. Karlheinz Schlager |
| 1971–1981 |
Publication of A/I: Einzeldrucke vor 1800 (Individual Prints before 1800); 9 volumes |
| 1973 |
Establishment of regulations with regard to form and content for the description of manuscripts by the Advisory Research Committee |
| 1976–1982 |
Director of the Zentralredaktion: Dr. Helmut Rösing |
| 1978 |
Start of series A/II: Publication of the catalogue of the Fürstlich Hohenlohe-Langenburg’sche Schlossbibliothek in Fontes |
| since 1978 |
Support from UNESCO Conseil International de la Philosophie et des Sciences Humaines |
| 1979 |
Foundation of the association Internationales Quellenlexikon der Musik e.V. First publications of series C: C/IV: Cecil Hill, Katya Manor, James Siddons, Dorothy Freed, Directory of Music Research Libraries. Volume 4: Australia, Israel, Japan, New Zealand. Since then, 5 volumes have appeared in series C (some revised; see RISM publications) |
| 1979–1986 |
Publication of three special volumes: Norbert Böker-Heil, Harald Heckmann, Ilse Kindermann: Das Tenorlied. Mehrstimmige Lieder in deutschen Quellen 1450- 1580 |
| 1980 |
Inclusion of the Zentralredaktion in the “Akademienprogramm” financed by state and federal governments through the Conference of the Academies of Sciences |
| 1981 |
Publication of the guidelines for series A/II in Fontes |
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 Meeting of the Commission mixte, Budapest 1981: Israel Adler, Pierluigi Petrobelli, Barry S. Brook, Clemens von Gleich, Helmut Rösing, Wolfgang Rehm, Harald Heckmann |
| 1982–1990 |
Director of the Zentralredaktion: Dr. Joachim Schlichte |
| 1984 |
First microfiche edition of series A/II |
| 1986 |
Second microfiche edition of series A/II |
| 1986–1999 |
Publication of A/I Einzeldrucke vor 1800 (Individual Prints before 1800): Addenda et Corrigenda (4 volumes) |
| 1987 |
Zentralredaktion moves to Frankfurt am Main, Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek at Goethe Universität |
| 1987–2015 |
Financial support from the City of Frankfurt |
| 1989 |
Publication of INFO-RISM No. 1. Regular issues until 2001 |
| 1990 |
Introduction of the program PIKaDo to catalog musical sources |
| 1991–2020 |
Director of the Zentralredaktion: Klaus Keil |
| 1991 |
Establishment of a subcommission of the Commission Mixte for libretti. Transfer of approx. 90,000 entries from series A/II to the PIKaDo program by RISM Germany |
| 1992 |
Publication of Libretti in deutschen Bibliotheken. Katalog der gedruckten Texte zu Opern, Oratorien, Kantaten, Schuldramen, Balletten und Gelegenheitskompositionen von den Anfängen bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Microfiche edition |
| 1995 |
First CD-ROM edition of series A/II (K.G. Saur). New editions annually until 2008. |
| 1997 |
First version of internet database of series A/II, a joint project of the RISM Zentralredaktion and the U.S. RISM Office at Harvard University. |
| 1999 |
Publication of the RISM library sigla as a complete index |
| 2002 |
International congress: Scientific and Technological Challenges of Musicological Source Research at International Level — 50 Years RISM. Second version of internet database of Series A/II with biannual updates. Provider: National Information Services Corporation (NISC USA) |
| 2006 |
Introduction of the program Kallisto to catalog musical sources; PIKaDo phased out |
| since 2008 |
Database offered through EBSCO |
| 2010 |
RISM Catalog of Musical Sources database launched online free of charge with monthly updates at https://opac.rism.info/, a project of the RISM Zentralredaktion in cooperation with the Bavarian State Library (Munich) and the State Library of Berlin. |
| 2012 |
International conference: Music Documentation in Libraries, Scholarship, and Practice |
| 2013 |
RISM data offered as open data through the RISM Catalog of Musical Sources |
| 2014 |
RISM data offered as linked open data through the RISM Catalog of Musical Sources |
| 2015 |
International conference: RISM Colloquium. Updated German-English RISM brochure published |
| 2016 |
International conference: Documenting Musical Sources in Latin America. Use of Kallisto ends; cataloging program Muscat adopted for the international RISM project, in cooperation with RISM Switzerland |
| 2019 |
International conference: Works, Work Titles, Work Authorities: Perspectives on Introducing a Work Level in RISM |
| since 2020 |
Director of the Zentralredaktion: Dr. Balázs Mikusi |
| 2021 |
RISM Lecture Series launched. The RISM Digital Center is established in Bern, Switzerland, which reports to the IMS and IAML through the Commission mixte. |
| 2022 |
RISM Online launched, a project of the RISM Digital Center. Conference Musical Sources: Past and Future - An International Conference Celebrating 70 Years of RISM. Special issue of Fontes artis musicae, “In Celebration of RISM’s Seventieth Anniversary” (69, no. 3, July-September 2022). |
