Hofmeister XIXAuthor(s): Nicholas CookSource: Fontes Artis Musicae, Vol. 55, No. 1 (January-March 2008), pp. 40-41Published by: International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres(IAML)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23512364 .

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40 FONTES ARTIS MUSICAE 55/1

relator codes (alphabetic codes of the list 145 may now be used in subfield $4 of fields in the 7—). These new rules must be ex

plained and the examples upgraded.

3. Upgrading of field 145

At the beginning of 2006, the reference li

brary of the Cité de la Musique and the

Documentation Centre of Contemporary

Music (Centre de documentation de la

musique contemporaine) (Paris) tried to im

plement the field 145. Their target was to

provide inquiry based on selection of the

medium of performance of the musical

works. These libraries worked with their software vendors, but the computer engi

neers couldn't implement the field 145 with its current structure. It is possible to dis

play the entered data, but it is impossible to

inquire some data.

Therefore, the Comité français Unimarc

(CfU) is preparing an upgrade project for field 145 (structure of the field and lists of suffixes), which has been submitted during the meeting. Massimo Gentili-Tedeschi will transmit this project to the Italian Working Group, which will express its opinion in

September.

Laurence Decobert

Chair

WORKING GROUPS

Branches

Working Group on Access to Music

Archives

We have had a very busy week here in

Sydney. Our project is basically about get ting access to music archives—where are

these important research materials kept?—

the papers of composers, performers, opera

companies, music publishers, instrument

makers and so on...

There is information about this in vari

ous databases and we want to harvest them

via a one-stop-search to make the search

easy. We also like to provide a database for

registering music archives for countries and institutions that do not yet have that.

We have had three sessions here in

Sydney. We have been polishing the data

base, that means making small changes to

it. We have also hammered out questions

for a survey with the intention to find out "what is out there?". What archival data bases do you have that include music?

So if you receive the survey, please help

us and fill it out. In December 2007 we will then send in an application for money to the

Mellon Foundation. It will include the costs for programming but also networking

money.

Inger Enquist

Chair

Hofmeister XIX

For the last three years the project, based at

Royal Holloway, University of London with

funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, has been creating a

web-based database of the Hofmeister

Monatsberichte for the period 1829-1900. The Monatsberichte (monthly catalogues is sued by Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig) are

the most detailed source of information

about nineteenth-century music publica

tions, with particular emphasis on the

German-speaking countries. They provide

information about when a given composi

tion was published, where, by who, and at

what price; using Hofmeister XIX you can

locate any item by searching on e.g. com

poser, title, publisher, place of publication, or date, and extract information such as

what publishers were active where and

when. Hofmeister XIX records are linked to

the facsimiles of the Monatsberichte on the Austrian National Library website.

Hofmeister XIX is now delivered in its beta version, meaning that further optimi

sation and correction is in process. In gen eral the search interface should work well,

but the browse and index interfaces can be

slow; we hope to rectify this in Version 1.0,

scheduled for autumn 2007. In the mean

time you can help us by using the system

and providing comments or corrections us

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REPORTS

ing the on-line forms. It will be particularly useful if you can do this between now and

20 August 2007, as our schedule allows for

corrections during this period. Hofmeister XIX is on open access at

http://www.hofmeister.rhul.ac.uk.

Nicholas Cook

Royal Holloway, University of London

Commissions

Working Group on Access to Music

Ephemera

The WG has produced draft guidelines for

describing collections of concert ephemera

and we plan to make these available for

wider consultation over the coming year. A

priority for this year is to outline the con

ceptual framework for an international the

saurus of concert venues. The IAML (UK

and Ireland branch) online database of pro

gramme collections will be launched at the end of 2007 and will contain some 5,000 new

descriptions of collections held by major li braries, archives and performance venues.

Rupert Ridgewell Chair

The Working Group on ISBD and Music

We are pleased to report that the IbBU

Review Group of IFLA accepted all of our

proposals for music-related revisions (ex

cept for some suggested examples) to the

consolidated edition of the ISBD.

According to the IFLA web site IFLANET "the ISBD: International Standard Biblio

graphic Description—preliminary con

solidated edition is being published by KG. Saur in time for the World Library and Information Congress to be held in Durban,

South Africa, in August 2007." We were hoping to be able to begin work

on gathering music examples for the

planned supplementary volume of exam

ples at our meeting in Sydney. Unfor

tunately we will, of necessity, have to wait

until the Study Group on Examples, re

cently set up by the ISBD Review Group,

develops a framework and guidelines for

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that publication at the Durban congress in

August. Instead we discussed and agreed

upon further music-related changes for the

planned two-year revision of the consoli

dated edition; we will pass these along to the review group.

David Sommerfield Chair

Committees

Information Technology Committee

The IT Committee held a single working meeting in Sydney, on 2 July. A working membership was established with the in tention of conducting business by means of

a closed listserv as well as face to face at an

nual conferences. Most of the subsequent

discussion concerned the IAML website in

cluding mechanisms for keeping content

current, and encouraging broader usage of

the site. IT Committee membership: Antony

Gordon (British Library Sound Archive, London) (Chair), Michael Fingerhut (IR CAM, Paris), Gabriele Gamba (IAML web

master, Milan), Massimo Gentili Tedeschi

(Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Ufficio Ricerca Fondi Musicali, Milan), Elizabeth Giuliani (Bibliothèque national de France, Paris), Julia Mitford (ExploreMusic, Gateshead, UK).

Antony Gordon

Chair

Outreach Committee

Last year in Göteborg, the IAML outreach

fund supported 8 delegates. One received

part of her support from RISM. Two others

were entirely supported by Swedish

International Development Cooperation

Agency and Uppsala University. This year, the fund and delegates' dona

tions are supporting 4 colleagues.

This year's outreach session will include papers by Julianna Göcza, Christian

Onyeji and Ruth Hellen. These papers will be summarised in a future issue of Fontes.

This is my last meeting as outreach co

ordinator so I would like to thank those

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