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Events: Muscat Workshop in Prague
As you all know, our new cataloging program Muscat was released last week, and excitement for the new program continues to grow. Following workshops in Frankfurt, Berlin, Warsaw, and Seoul, an additional workshop was held last week at the National Library in Prague. From November 14 to 16, Guido...
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Library collections: The Archive of the Sorbian Institute in Germany
The Archive of the Sorbian Institute (Sorbisches Kulturarchiv) is the only archive for the Sorbian language and Sorbian studies that is open to the public. The Sorbs (historically also called Wends) are a Slavic minority in Germany that has lived for centuries in Upper and Lower Lusatia (a...
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New at RISM: Welcome, Muscat!
Beginning today, Muscat is available to RISM contributors as a central cataloging program for musical sources. Muscat includes sources from the various RISM series A/I, A/II, and B/I, which are in one database for the first time after having previously been managed in separate places. The new...
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RISM online catalog: Music Incipit Search(es)
The incipit search is one of the most popular features of the RISM online catalog. The over 1.7 million incipits (which are the first few bars of a work or movement) lead to new identifications, new discoveries, and rediscoveries. But just how does the incipit search work? In this post I'll show...
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