News archive – RISM online catalog
Searching by Instrumentation in RISM
With the release of Muscat, our new program for cataloging sources, we took the opportunity to clarify our guidelines for our RISM contributors. One of the results of this is a new, more complete list of RISM instrument abbreviations. We thought we’d also share this improved list with you–the users...
12 December 2016
Music Incipit Search(es)
The incipit search is one of the most popular features of the RISM online catalog. The over 1.7 million incipits (which are the first few bars of a work or movement) lead to new identifications, new discoveries, and rediscoveries. But just how does the incipit search work? In this post...
10 November 2016
Help RISM Link to Digitized Music
This post was updated in 2021. The RISM online catalog offers over 18,000 links to digitized music: scores, parts, and printed editions from all around the world. This ease of access to the sources is one of the most popular features of the catalog. Current RISM contributors add links to...
30 May 2016
30 Johann Bachs, or searching for "unclear" composers
Back in March we showed you in this space how to link to RISM searches in the online catalog. In most cases, this works without a hitch - you can even use pseudonyms or other forms of the name, as long as they are entered as variants in RISM. Here’s...
10 September 2015
Printed Music (A/I and B/I) now in RISM's Online Catalog
RISM is pleased to announce a major addition to its free online catalog that strengthens its utility as a resource for the documentation of printed music. Two of its major publications have been added to the online catalog and are freely available online for anyone to search at opac.rism.info and...
21 May 2015
RISM Data as Open Data and Linked Open Data
RISM data have been available as open data since 2013, and as linked open data since the summer of 2014. The RISM open data are available on the linked open data page of the RISM online catalog. This link allows you to download the entire batch. What does this mean?...
16 April 2015
How can you link to RISM searches?
Many smaller institutions, including libraries, archives, private collectors, etc. do not maintain an online catalog of their collections but want to present the RISM records for their items on their own websites. To facilitate this, the Bavarian State Library in Munich offers a query interface based on different parameters. For...
26 March 2015
New Version of the RISM Online Catalog
RISM would like to announce the release of a new version of the online catalog. The content is the same, but there is a new interface with features that will make it easier to find musical sources. New features include: • Search for digitized music Autocomplete in the search boxes...
10 April 2014
New Version of RISM’s Online Catalog with Incipit Search Released
A new version of the OPAC for the International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM) was released at the end of March 2011. New features in this version are a music incipit search, links to digital objects, and various minor improvements, including display of holding libraries in cases of ownership transfer...
11 April 2011
New online music catalogue: over 700,000 entries
The new catalogue of the International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM) provides insight into treasures of music history largely inaccessible until now A new music catalogue has been freely available online since June 2010. This database offers around 700,000 sources, mainly in manuscript, catalogued in detail according to academic criteria....
30 June 2010
