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RISM at the International Music Council's "70 Projects for 70 Years" Exhibition
The International Music Council (IMC) will celebrate its 70th anniversary this year and will mark the occasion during the 6th World Forum of Music, which will take place from 27 September to 1 October 2019 in Paris. At the center of the Forum is the IMC’s 5 Music Rights statement...
16 September 2019
Digital Musicology at Oxford Summer School
I’ve been wanting to attend the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) for some time now, thanks to glowing reviews from librarian friends. I was glad when my summer plans finally aligned with this year’s Summer School, and directly after the IAML Congress in Kraków I hopped over to...
2 September 2019
Congress Diary from IAML Kraków 2019
Three people from the RISM Central Office attended the annual congress of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres in Kraków, Poland. In traditional Congress Diary style, we offer you their impressions from Kraków with each contributor writing in their native language. Klaus Keil: Dass der IAML...
26 August 2019
RISM and Digital Musicology: Utrecht 2019
To accompany this past July’s Digital Humanities conference in Utrecht, musicologists and computer scientists gathered for a meeting in which numerous short presentations were given. Digital musicology was the theme of the study group, which comprised around 50 people and met at Utrecht University, and the event was primarily organized...
22 August 2019
Presentation Materials from RISM Conference Now Online
The first video recordings and presentations slides from RISM’s conference “Works, Work Titles, Work Authorities: Perspectives on Introducing a Work Level in RISM,” which took place in Mainz May 9-11, 2019, at the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, are now online and available through our conference website. More materials...
8 July 2019
Muscat Workshop at the Czech National Library in Prague
A workshop for advanced users of Muscat, RISM’s cataloging program for describing musical sources, took place from 12 to 14 June 2019 at the National Library of the Czech Republic in Prague. Guido Kraus from the RISM Central Office led the workshop for experienced catalogers from the RISM Prague working...
27 June 2019
RISM at the IAML Congress in Kraków
We’re just three weeks away from the annual congress of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) from 14 to 19 July 2019. This year we will be meeting in charming and historic Kraków, Poland at Jagiellonian University. This year, RISM is hosting a Muscat workshop...
24 June 2019
Call for Papers: International Conference Celebration and Sonority (Morelia, Mexico 14th to 16th November, 2019)
Our colleagues from the RISM working group in Morelia, Mexico would like to announce a call for papers: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CELEBRATION AND SONORITY Interdisciplinary investigation of Hispanic American poetic and musical sources (xvi-xix centuries) (Morelia, Mexico 14th to 16th November, 2019) PRESENTATION The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Escuela Nacional...
5 June 2019
Taller de Muscat en Córdoba, Argentina / Muscat Workshop in Córdoba, Argentina
We have received the following from Luciana Giron Sheridan and Lucas Reccitelli (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba). English below: Durante la última semana del mes de marzo 2019 se llevó a cabo un taller de Muscat en Córdoba, Argentina. El taller tuvo lugar en el campus de la Universidad Nacional de...
3 June 2019
This week: Perspectives on Introducing a Work Level in RISM
We are counting down to our conference and workshops in just a few days: Works, Work Titles, Work Authorities: Perspectives on Introducing a Work Level in RISM at the Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur in Mainz. For three days, 9–11 May 2019, we are going to swap ideas, have discussions,...
6 May 2019
