News archive – RISM online catalog
Searching by City in the RISM Catalog
The Online Directory of RISM Library Sigla makes it easy to search over 8,500 institutions that have official RISM library sigla. Library sigla are the abbreviations that RISM assigns to any institution that holds materials related to music research. See this video on YouTube for a demonstration. The sigla make...
13 April 2022
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BEACON Files Published
As part of its efforts to provide its users with ever more technical tools, the Bavarian State Library is now offering RISM authority data in BEACON format. Such BEACON files serve to link external data providers with RISM references. The linking element is the identifier of an authority data provider,...
5 April 2022
New Features in the RISM Catalog
RISM and the Bavarian State Library (BSB, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) announce a major upgrade of the RISM Catalog of Musical Sources at https://opac.rism.info/. One of the first things that users might notice is the display of IIIF objects. The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) is a technical standard that allows images...
8 February 2022
Help RISM Link to Digitized Sources
Has your institution undertaken a digitization project in recent years? Are the digital surrogates linked to their corresponding RISM records? The RISM Catalog of Musical Sources offers around 75,000 links to digitized sources: autograph manuscripts, full scores, manuscript parts, first editions, libretti, treatises, and more from all around the world....
23 August 2021
Updated Tutorials for the RISM Online Catalog
New, updated tutorials are now available for the RISM Online Catalog. All tutorials are available through the catalog’s Help page as well as through RISM’s YouTube channel and the playlist Guides to the RISM Online Catalog. All videos are in English and include English captions. Three introductory videos give an...
19 November 2020
Help RISM identify unknown languages
We were editing some records and found that around 100 vocal pieces in the RISM database have the language code “undetermined.” Do you recognize any of the languages used in the text? Take a look at the table and let us know if anything looks familiar (link also here): ...
21 September 2020
Almost 20,000 Records from the BnF Now Also in RISM
We have received the following from François-Pierre Goy (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département de la Musique): Even though not all music manuscripts from the Bibliothèque nationale de France are in RISM, F-Pn is now the siglum with the fifth highest number of records in the database. The Music Department of...
29 June 2020
10 Years of the RISM Online Catalog: Our Users
The RISM Catalog was released online ten years ago this month. On Monday we shared a piece by the RISM director, Klaus Keil, about the development of the catalog from microfiche to open access catalog. Today we’d like to share a few encouraging words from a very important group of...
25 June 2020
10 Years of the RISM Online Catalog
Ten years ago this month, the RISM online catalog was first released free of charge. Not only has the amount of data significantly increased since then, but the catalog’s software is regularly updated and improved. The amount of data has increased from an initial 700,000 records with descriptions of music...
22 June 2020
New RISM Tutorial in German
We are pleased to announce the release of a new tutorial in German about the RISM project and the online catalog. Musikwissenschaft: RISM – Internationales Quellenlexikon der Musik was produced by the musicology department of the Universität Tübingen as part of the series “Tübinger Tutorials zur Musikwissenschaft.” The RISM video...
20 April 2020
