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Results of the RISM User Study, Part II: Your Comments - Coverage in RISM and Citing Literature
We received hundreds of comments in our recent survey of the online catalog. We are carefully considering each one of them and would like to take some time to address some of the larger issues raised. Today we are talking about coverage in RISM and citing literature. Later this week,...
10 August 2015
Work on Lambach Abbey Halfway Done
Frank van der Lecq of the Netherlands describes his work cataloging the collection of Lambach Abbey (A-LA) for RISM: Cataloging the music collection of the Benedictine monastery Lambach Abbey (A-LA) in Austria is almost halfway completed. Only small details need to be added to the instrumental music and the masses....
20 July 2015
Two New Countries in RISM: Andorra (AND) and Indonesia (RI)
The siglum database continues to grow! Thanks to requests made by researchers, we have added two new countries: Andorra and Indonesia. AND-AVan: Arxiu Nacional d’Andorra, Andorra la Vella, Andorra AND-AVbn: Biblioteca Nacional d’Andorra, Andorra la Vella, Andorra RI-Duufs: Universitas Udayana, Fakultas Sastra, Denpasar, Indonesia RI-Jpn: Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia, Jakarta,...
9 July 2015
No siglum? No problem!
From time to time we come across articles, dissertations, or databases with a list of sigla that includes a phrase such as “the following sigla, not in RISM, were derived for this project.” There’s a better way! We’ll make one for you! If you need a siglum for your research...
2 July 2015
Polish Week, Part I: Music as Part of Monastic Heritage in Poland
It’s Polish Week at RISM! In a series of three posts, Guido Kraus will share his experiences at a recent conference he attended in Poland. He starts with the Hereditas Monasteriorum research project. The research project Hereditas Monasteriorum, initiated by Polish historians, deals with the special history of monasteries in...
22 June 2015
Results of the RISM User Study, Part I: The Survey
We are currently going through the results of the first-ever RISM user study about the online catalog. An online survey with 62 questions was available from 30 October 2014 until 28 February 2015. Our goal is to get to know our users better (such as where they are from, what...
28 May 2015
New CD Box Set: The RISM Complete Incipits Edition
Many people know that one of the things that makes RISM unique is that we include music incipits in our records. How many times have you thought to yourself, “If only I could listen to these music incipits all day!” Now you can! Announcing a new CD box set, the...
1 April 2015
Wie kann man RISM Nachweise einbinden?
Viele kleinere Institutionen wie Bibliotheken, Archive, Privatbesitzer etc. verfügen nicht über einen eigenen Online-Katalog ihrer Bestände, wollen aber die Einträge ihrer Bestände bei RISM auf der ihrer Website präsentieren. Dazu bietet die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München, eine Query-Schnittstelle an, die zuletzt so erweitert wurde, dass nach RISM Bibliothekssigeln gefragt werden kann....
26 March 2015
Welcome to the new RISM office
We have spent this week settling into our new office. We’re now on the Goethe Universität Frankfurt campus. While we unpack our boxes and sort out some details, please enjoy these photos that we took before, during, and after the move. More are available on our Facebook page (no Facebook...
28 January 2015
We're moving!
Goodbye, Sophienstraße! We’re moving! After 26 years of being in our office at Sophienstraße 26, we moving…about half a mile away to a building on the Goethe Universität Frankfurt campus. As of Monday, January 26, 2015, our new mailing address will be: RISM Zentralredaktion Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Campus Bockenheim Senckenberganlage...
21 January 2015
