Bibliography Commission: Working Group on Hofmeister XIXAuthor(s): Chris BanksSource: Fontes Artis Musicae, Vol. 53, No. 2 (April-June 2006), pp. 69-70Published by: International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres(IAML)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23510496 .

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REPORTS

make these technologies relevant and use

ful to our clientele by incorporating them

into teaching and learning.

Mary Wallace Davidson

Secretary

WORKING GROUPS

BRANCHES

Archives Branch: Working Group on Access to Music Archives (formerly Working Group on the Registration of

Archives)

Chris Banks, vice-chair of the Archives and Documentation Centres Branch, chaired

the Working Group meetings during the

conference because the chair of the

Working Group, David Day, resigned shortly before the Warsaw meeting. The

two sessions provided time for lively dis cussions and ideas for a new charge of the

working group: "To build upon the intellec

tual and technical work of IRMA and other

related databases in order to develop a system

of data entry for and access to music

archives." The new charge was subse

quently approved by the Council during the

conference. During the discussions, from

which the charge emerged, the Working Group determined to move forward with

the project, basing it on the work of IRMA.

Also during the discussions, the Working

Group decided the project should have a

hybrid model for the database, whereby,

a single search will harvest data from

existing databases as well as the central

database.

The Working Group also settled on a

more readily understandable name:

Working Group on Access to Music

Archives (AMA). This name change was also approved at the second Council

meeting during the conference. After some

discussion, Judy Tsou (University of

Washington, USA) and Inger Enquist (Statens Musikbibliotek, Sweden) agreed to co-chair the Working Group; Michael

Fingerhut (IRCAM, Paris) agreed to be the technical support for the project. Other

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members that will work on the project are:

John Shepard (USA), Marguerite Sablon

niere (France), Agostina Zecca-Laterza

(Italy), Joachim Jaenecke (Germany), Jon Bagiiés (Spain), and Chris Banks (UK).

The discussions from the sessions also

resulted in the following objectives for the

coming year:

• Draw up recommendations for meta

data standards and accessibility, build

ing on work already done by IRMA • Devise a means of ensuring interoper

ability with existing systems • Ensure the long-term data preserva

tion of the data already created as part

of this project • Estimate funding requirements for

the next phase • Identify potential sources of funding • Address the legal issues and

implications • Consider multi-lingual issues • Come to IAML 2006 with proposals

for data entry and storage and for data

retrieval

Judy Tsou Chair

Public Libraries Branch: Working Group on the IAML Toolbox

The Working Group on the IAML Toolbox

had two meetings this year in order to

make a good start with the activities for the

IAML Toolbox. Gabriele Gamba gave in

structions on the eGroupWare programm

and Christel Rosenborg agreed to act as

webmaster. Various tasks will be under

taken during the following months to get

the Toolbox on its way.

Hanneke Kuiper Chair

COMMISSIONS

Bibliography Commission: Working

Group on Hofmeister XIX

Hofmeister is happening, finally. During the conference members of the working

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group were able to see the initial results of

the project now based in the UK at Royal

Holloway, University of London and

funded by the UK's Arts and Humanities

Research Council.

What those of us working on the scop

ing of the project in the early 1990s were

unaware of was that what was needed—

apart from money of course—is what is

now what we know as XML. The data is

being keyed, it is then being tagged and a search interface being developed. Members of the working group were, for

the first time, able to see some of the data

online and to see, even through the rudi

mentary search facility mounted so far, just how powerful a tool will result from the

project. In our wildest dreams we also

hoped that it would also be possible to digi tise the copies so that they could be seen

alongside the transcriptions. Our wildest

dreams have been realised and, as a result

of a digitisation programme being run at

the Austrian National Library through Thomas Leibnitz, it is now possible to use the Hofmeister XIX data to search for a spe

cific entry and then to link through to the

digitised image. In addition to seeing some live data, and some rudimentary searches,

the working group spent some time consid

ering just how the data might be used and

interrogated. We also began thinking "what

next" since this current phase of the project will draw to a close in December 2006. We

have concluded that initially we will seek

for funding to include the Whistling vol umes and that we will also seek to bring

Hofmeister into the 20th century by tran

scribing all volumes to 1945. The next phase is that all the data will made avail able on the website and the remaining tag

ging will be completed. Also, during 2006 the search interface will be developed and

feedback from users will be sought.

There are many who have made the proj ect possible: those members of the work

ing group who have stuck with the project since the early 1990s; Mark Everist of

Southampton University and Nick Cook for

merly of Southhampton University and now

of Royal Holloway, University of London,

for their willingness to make the bid on be half of the project to the UK's Arts and

Humanities Research Council, and to the

AHRC for funding it. To Liz Robinson for

managing the project through some excep

tionally challenging teething phases and to

Harold Short and his team at the Kings College Centre for computing for devising

the XML schema for the data. To Thomas

Leibnitz and the staff of the Österreichis che Nationalbibliothek for taking forward the digitisation of the originals and for

making available further copies of some is

sues where the original microfilms were

unreadable.

Two people closely involved with the

project from the outset were not with us but

I would like to think they were nonetheless

looking on approvingly: Neil Ratliff, the original inspirational chair of the project and, Lenore Coral who offered so much

constructive comment during its rather

long gestation.

Chris Banks Chair

Bibliography Commission: Working Group on Access to Performance

Ephemera (tentative name) (formerly Working Group on the Indexing of Music

Performances)

Session 1: Tuesday 12 July, 14.15-15.45

The first of two sessions at Warsaw was de

voted mainly to activities in the UK and Ireland. The Concert Programmes Project

was launched in November 2004 by Cardiff

University and the Royal College of Music. Rupert Ridgewell gave a demonstration of

the offline cataloguing module and re

ported that the project aims to gather

records describing at least 4,000 collections of concert programmes over the course of

three years. Thus far, the database had

been populated with 478 preliminary records from three institutions: the British Library, Edinburgh City Library, and the

Henry Watson Music Library in Man

chester. Cataloguers would be recruited in

various regions in the UK and Ireland, in

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