Bibliography Commission: Working Group on HofmeisterAuthor(s): Chris BanksSource: Fontes Artis Musicae, Vol. 56, No. 4 (October-December 2009), p. 367Published by: International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres(IAML)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23512186 .

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REPORTS 367

an archive school. We have also started collect

ing information about search possibilities for music archives in various countries.

However, a great deal of work remains to be

done. Our main effort the upcoming year will

be a database for archival holdings and it will be mounted on the IAML website. A detailed out line is already there, but programming is needed and we also need to work on the multi

lingual question. We hope to have something to

show next year.

We are still exploring how we can join forces with other organisations and include more part

ners in the project. We are also interested in

making one-stop-searches in various databases

and here we are looking into the possibility to use an existing portal and rely on its

infrastructure.

Jon Bagiiés /Inger Enquist Co-chairs

Bibliography Commission: Working Group on Access to Performance

Ephemera

There is no report from the 2009 meeting, but a

full history of the Concert Programmes Project

will appear in Fontes Artis Musicae 2010:1

Rupert Ridgewell Chair

Bibliography Commission: Working Group on Hoftneister

At the 2008 Naples meeting, Chris Banks re

ported that the Working Group on Hofmeister

XIX had finished its task as charged. However,

there were new tasks be undertaken, such as

publicity for the project, enriching the data and

extending coverage. Council unanimously ap

proved the establishment of a new provisional

Working Group on Hofmeister for one year,

chaired by Chris Banks. Since no formal proposal to extend the one

year Working Group was put forward at the

Amsterdam meeting, the Working Group on

Hofmeister has ended. Planning is in progress for the establishment of a new Working Group

focused on extending coverage online for years

not included in the Hofmeister XIX project.

Please see the Bibliography Commission re

port for recent Hofmeister activities.

Chris Banks Former Chair

Cataloguing Commission: Working Group on the Exchange of Authority Data

A Brief Summary

At the time I was asked to chair the group, its

main aim appeared to be the safeguarding

of the specific interest of music uniform titles,

particularly in the context of the Virtual Inter

national Authority File project (VIAF). That

project's goal is to "lower the cost and increase

the utility of library authority files by matching and linking the authority files of national li braries, and then making that information avail

able on the Web." The methodology involves

taking data sets from several national libraries,

and using "OCLC's proven software" to find matches. I was, and remain skeptical of this

strategy for music works. Matching personal

names is not a specifically music problem; nor,

theoretically is matching titles, but it is that this is the present interest. After several years'

work, there is a test version available at

http://viaf.org/

I submitted the title: "Cosi fan tutte"

The suggested matches were:

nozze di figaro

requiem mass

ballo in maschera

pulcinella vater vater lichterloh

rose pilgerfahrt etc.

Thinking that this might be a "one-off" I then entered "Kindertotenlieder".

Result:

tito manlio nozze di figaro lucia di lammermoor Opernquerschnitt

rosina

conciertos

symphonie en re mineur version pour grand

orgue sinfonie d moll

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