Bavarian State Library expands RISM commitment
The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek has signed two cooperation agreements and is thus further expanding its involvement in the international projects RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales) and RIdIM (Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale).
In the RISM contract concluded between the Internationales Quellenlexikon der Musik e.V. association, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin undertakes to host the new RISM indexing system Muscat. Muscat will replace the previous Kallisto system, which is already hosted in Berlin, at the end of 2016.
The Bavarian State Library has committed itself to continuing to host and further develop the presentation system for RISM data (RISM-OPAC). The RISM-OPAC (opac.rism.info) was conceived in 2008 in a joint project between RISM, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.
The RIdIM contract concluded between the RIdIM Association, the RISM Working Group Germany and the Bavarian State Library regulates the regular transfer of German RIdIM data to the international RIdIM database (db.ridim.org). The German RIdIM research center, which is based at the Bavarian State Library and funded by the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities in Mainz, has been cataloguing music iconographic sources since 1979, which have been searchable in an online database since 2007: www.ridim-deutschland.de.
