RILM

Barbara Dobbs MackenzieEditor-in-Chief, RILM

Director, Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation

The Graduate Center, The City University of New York

Mellon All-Projects Meeting: Musicology and Music Information Retrieval

New York, June 2007

The Four “R Projects”

RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales), est. 1949

RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale), est. 1966

RIdIM (Répertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale), est. 1971

RIPM (Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale), est. 1981

SponsorsInternational Musicological Society (IMS)

International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAML)

RILMRépertoire International de Littérature

MusicaleInternational Repertory of Music

LiteratureInternationales Repertorium der

Musikliteratur

(that is, an abstracted bibliography of writings about music)

-Folio, Fall 2004

“All The Music Research on Earth”

(well, maybe not quite all…)

-Folio, Fall 2004

“All The Music Research on Earth”

International Center (IC)Gathers, edits, indexes, and distributes all data

Publishes printed volumes

E-publications through partnersCD-ROM through NISC MuSeOnline through the following:

CSA/ProQuestEBSCONISCOCLC

Ovid/SilverPlatter

Hungary

Hong Kong

Greece

Germany

France

Finland

Estonia

Denmark

CzechRepublic

Cyprus Cuba Croatia

Colombia

China

Canada

Bulgaria

Brazil

Belgium

Azerbaijian

Austria

AustraliaArgentina

IC

Commission MixteIMS: H. Robert Cohen, Suzanne G. Cusick, David Fallows, Philippe Vendrix, Chris Walton

IAML: Chris Banks, Massimo Gentili-Tedeschi, Veslemöy Heintz, Wolfgang Krueger, Martie Severt

RILM CommitteesAngolaArgentinaAustraliaAustriaBelgiumBotswanaBrazilBulgariaCanadaChinaColombiaCroatiaCyprusCzech RepublicDenmarkEstoniaFinlandFranceGermanyGreece

Hong KongHungaryIceland(India)IranIrelandIsraelItalyJapanKenyaLatviaLithuaniaMalaysiaMaltaMexicoMiddle EastMontenegroNamibiaNetherlandsNew Zealand

NigeriaNorwayPolandPortugalRomaniaRussiaSerbiaSlovakiaSloveniaSouth AfricaSouth KoreaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwan(Thailand)TurkeyUnited KingdomUnited StatesVatican

RILM is searched some 200,000

times every month

bystudents, faculty, independent scholars,

musicians, and researchers

•Articles•Conference Proceedings•Catalogues•Festschriften•Reviews•Critical Commentaries•Theses•Technical Drawings

•Books•Bibliographies•Dissertations•Iconographies•Ethnographic Recordings•Collections of Essays•Electronic Resources

•Historical musicology•Ethnomusicology•Theory and analysis•Instruments and voice•Performance practice and notation•Librarianship•Reference and research materials•Collected writings•Pedagogy•Liturgy•Sound recording

•Dance•Dramatic arts•Poetry and other literature•Visual arts•Criticism and aesthetics•Psychology and hearing•Music therapy•Sociology•Linguistics and semiotics•Printing, engraving, and publishing

RILM in Numbers

Dates of coverage: 1967 to presentTotal number of entries: almost 500,000Languages: over 140Document types: 36Periodicals abstracted: over 6,000National committees: 60

RILM’s Style Manual

The Retrospective Initiative

1. Digitized first two years of data(Mellon supported)

2. Pre-1967 Conference Proceedings →(Mellon supported)

3. Pre-1967 Festschriften (NEH supported)

4. Pre-1967 Journals (JSTOR)

Data and Technology Changes

•Web-based editorial database used by staff and committees (iBis—Internet Bibliographic Indexing System)•All data stored in Unicode•Old data clean-up (better linking, consistent field labels and content, etc.)•Delivery by XML (this week!)•Keying, storage, and display of non-Roman characters (original characters, transliterated characters, English translations)•Original-language abstracts

Current Initiatives Goal

To leverage the richness of the RILM data online to make it intuitive,

interesting, and powerful for all levels of users.

More Powerful Online Use

•Index Browse•Classification Scheme•Thesaurus (facets, international thesaurus, equivalences, visualization, etc.?)•Links with other resources (Grove, sound recordings, scores, etc.)•Exploring other technological advances to make the use of RILM more powerful, perhaps more customizable, etc…

More Powerful Online Use

•Index Browse•Classification Scheme•Thesaurus (facets, international thesaurus, equivalences, etc.)•Links with other resources (Grove, sound recordings, scores, etc.)•Exploring other technological advances to make the use of RILM more powerful, perhaps more customizable, etc.

Other Projects and Considerations

•New website complete with tutorials. (See YouTube!)•RILM’s role in indexing university repositories and other such sources.

And much, much more…

So stay tuned!

Barbara Dobbs MackenzieEditor-in-Chief, RILM

Director, Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and DocumentationThe Graduate Center, The City University of New York

bmackenzie@rilm.org1 212 817 1991