RILM Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie Editor-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 RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale), est RIdIM (Répertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale), est RIPM (Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale), est. 1981

Sponsors International Musicological Society (IMS) International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAML) RILM Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale International Repertory of Music Literature Internationales 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 partners CD-ROM through NISC MuSe Online through the following: CSA/ProQuest EBSCO NISC OCLC Ovid/SilverPlatter IC Argent ina Austra lia Austri a Azerb aijian Belgiu m Brazil Bulgar ia Canad a China Colom bia Croati a Cuba Cypru s Czech Repub lic Denm ark Estoni a Finlan d France Germa ny Greec e Hong Kong Hunga ry Commission Mixte IMS: 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 Committees Angola Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Botswana Brazil Bulgaria Canada China Colombia Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hong Kong Hungary Iceland (India) Iran Ireland Israel Italy Japan Kenya Latvia Lithuania Malaysia Malta Mexico Middle East Montenegro Namibia Netherlands New Zealand Nigeria Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Serbia Slovakia Slovenia South Africa South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan (Thailand) Turkey United Kingdom United States Vatican

RILM is searched some 200,000 times every month by students, 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 present Total number of entries:almost 500,000 Languages: over 140 Document types:36 Periodicals abstracted:over 6,000 National 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 Mackenzie Editor-in-Chief, RILM Director, Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation The Graduate Center, The City University of New York