musiconn - For networked musicology
Under the name musiconn - for networked musicology , the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek operates the musicology information service in cooperation with the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library. In addition to services for the specialist community, the offer also includes the expansion of the scientific information infrastructure as well as the supraregional information and literature supply for top musicological research.
History and organization
The "system of supraregional literature supply for science and research", which has existed since 1949, pursues the goal of providing research in Germany in all subject areas with all of the internationally published special literature as a cooperation model between Germany's leading academic libraries. Organized on a federal basis, German and foreign-language cultural heritage is collected and maintained in a distributed national research library. Above all in the large German libraries, over the decades and centuries, collection focuses have emerged on which the distributed system of supraregional literature supply is based. This cooperative acquisition profile, which covers all scientific subjects, is organized across the board by the German Research Foundation (DFG). This ensures that at least one copy of every scientifically relevant book is available and, in particular, available in Germany: All member institutions of the national research library (23 state and university libraries and three central specialist libraries) have committed to making their entire specialist stock available throughout Germany deliver. With the establishment of the DFG-funded special musicology collection at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and the resulting obligation to supply literature across the region, the acquisition of printed music and literature on music was expanded to include countries outside of Europe.
The Virtual Library of Musicology (ViFaMusik) was founded in 2004 as a sub-module of the special musicology collection . The online information portal primarily served musicological research by providing sources and materials. ViFaMusik was set up and expanded with the involvement of the musicological specialist community by the Bavarian State Library, the State Institute for Music Research in Berlin and the Society for Music Research .
In order to react to the changes in the information, communication and publication system, the German Research Foundation launched the funding program “ Specialized Information Services for Science ” in 2012 . Especially in the area of specialized literature, there are new requirements for an information structure: One focus is primarily on the provision of digital offers and infrastructures. The musicological special collection area was finally replaced by the Musicology Information Service in January 2014. Its primary task is to give every scientist in Germany - regardless of his or her location - direct access to specialist literature and research-relevant information. Above all, compared to the existing offers of academic libraries, added value is to be created - so ViFaMusik is also being expanded into a specialist portal for the FID musicology.
In early 2017, at the beginning of the 2nd funding phase of the FID Musicology, the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library (SLUB) joined the project as a project partner. The qualified information supply of the FID Musicology includes the printed as well as the electronic inventory structure including their provision and long-term archiving . In addition, tried and tested modules from the Virtual Library of Musicology (ViFaMusik) will be integrated into the FID Musicology and further developed, and new offers will be set up. The ViFaMusik blog has been replaced by the new musiconn.kontrovers format.
The offers of the FID Musikwissenschaft have been combined under the new brand "musiconn - For networked musicology" since January 2018, further developed and made available in the online portal musiconn.de. The realization and further development of musiconn is supported by the advisory board of the musicology information service and an international advisory board.
Research
Musicological research is at the center of the musiconn portal. The musiconn research tool bundles all offers of the Musicology Information Service and offers access to 16 high-quality and actively selected musicological data sources, including the music and sheet music catalogs of the Bavarian State Library , the German Music Archive and the British Library .
Offer and service
Musiconn.de offers access to online offers via various search points:
FID licenses
On behalf of the German Research Foundation (DFG), a competence center for the licensing of electronic resources (KfL) has been created in the DFG-funded system of “Specialized Information Services for Science” (FID). The KfL is operated by the Goettingen State and University Library (SUB Goettingen), the Berlin State Library (SBB), the Bavarian State Library (BSB) and the joint headquarters of the GBV (VZG). The activities are coordinated by the SUB Göttingen.
The KfL acts nationwide as a service provider to support the FID in the performance of its tasks. In addition to the negotiation, licensing and national provision of digital media, the service portfolio also includes the development of suitable license and business models, the management of the data acquired with the licenses and the development of corresponding value-added services. The offers of the competence center are demand-oriented and further developed in direct contact with the specialist information services.
Subject-relevant electronic resources are also licensed within the framework of the FID Musicology and made available to the authorized group of users. This includes all personal members of the Society for Music Research (GfM) and the Society for Music Theory (GMTH). Individuals without a connection to one of the named institutions have the opportunity to register via the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek by specifying a scientific research interest in order to be able to use the licensed offers of the FID Musikwissenschaft.
In addition to sheet music and full-text databases, registered users can also access streaming services free of charge, the offers of which include both audio and video-on-demand .
RISM-OPAC
The International Library of Sources of Music - Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) - is a transnational, non-profit company with the aim of comprehensively documenting the sources of music that have been handed down around the world. The recorded musical sources are handwritten or printed notes, writings about music and text books. They are kept in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections. The RISM online catalog, the RISM-OPAC, is operated as part of the musicology information service at the Bavarian State Library and contains over 1.1 million searchable data records. Since it was activated in 2010, the catalog has been continuously developed and expanded to include new search options and functions.
RIdIM
The German office of the "Répertoire International d'iconographie Musicale" (RIdIM) has existed since 1979 within the German RISM working group and is based at the Munich RISM office at the Bavarian State Library. As a sub-area of the international network RIdIM for the mapping and indexing of music and dance representations in the field of fine arts and handicrafts, v. a. Cataloged objects from larger museums, collections and libraries in Germany. In order to publish or present the data, an Internet presence was set up as part of the musicology specialist information service, which enables research into around 20,000 objects using a search mask.
Web archiving of Internet resources
The permanent archiving of musicological relevant sources from the Internet has been a sub-project of the Musicology Information Service since 2014. Musicological web content, which is often only temporarily available due to the constant changeability of the Internet, can now be understood as scientific sources and is therefore copied at regular intervals (subject to the permission of the rights holder) and used for musicological research worldwide in a chronological web archive made accessible. This long-term archiving enables the complete display and use of a website - permanently and independently of the time of its publication and in particular its possible shutdown.
musiconn.scoresearch
Musiconn.scoresearch is an application developed at the Bavarian State Library for the optical recognition of musical texts. The prototypical process searches digitized printed music from the inventory of the BSB for matches with the melodies or tone sequences of the search input. Based on Optical Character Recognition (OCR), the term Optical Music Recognition (OMR) comes into play here.
musiconn.performance
As a central recording and research tool for musical performance events, musiconn.performance enables the merging and networking of the results of various projects in the field of musical performance practice. Since "music performance ephemera" (documents in the context of performance events, such as program notes, concert announcements, reviews, etc.) are among the central sources of musicology and their importance in the most diverse research contexts is constantly growing, but they were often only passed down by chance musiconn.performance will in future be expanded as a comprehensive searchable database and central search entry point.
New Acquisition Service
Users can find out about new acquisitions in the field of music via the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek's new acquisitions service. On the one hand, the classic way of an online research tool is available, which can be used to search directly for topics, regions or epochs in a selectable acquisition period. There is also a subscription function with which the user group can be regularly informed about new additions by email. A complete list of all newly acquired media or an individual selection of personal areas of interest can be output.
Community
Institute database
The institute database provides an overview of the musicological and music education institutes in German-speaking countries.
Dissertation registration office
The dissertation registration office records and coordinates the musicological dissertation and habilitation projects carried out in Austria, Switzerland and the Federal Republic of Germany. There have been isolated reports from other European countries. Since 1998, doctoral theses in the field of music education have also been included in the file. Since 2017 it has also been possible to submit abstracts for the dissertation projects, which provide additional information about the content of the work.
Expert database
The expert database provides an overview of musicological and music pedagogical experts in German-speaking countries.
musiconn.kontrovers
As part of the musicology specialist information service, the musiconn.kontrovers weblog is a discussion platform for musicologists from all sub-disciplines. The aim is to promote a factual debate on key issues in the subject. The hierarchy of the academic system does not play a role here; both established figures and young academics should have their say.
publication
One of the central services of a modern research library is the operation of document servers, which serve to provide and secure long-term scientific Open Access publications. In addition to institutionally defined repositories that are operated by universities and other research institutions and document the scientific output of their researchers, professionally defined document servers that serve the cross-institutional collection of high-quality scientific publications are gaining in importance. In such specialist repositories, significantly larger quantities of publications can in principle be made accessible than is the case with institutional repositories.
musiconn.publish
The online repository musiconn.publish, operated by SLUB Dresden, is used for free electronic publication , evidence and long-term archiving of musicological specialist literature and is available free of charge to authors in the field mentioned. Possible contents include a .:
- Dissertations / habilitations
- Conference and meeting reports
- Institutional Series
- Dependent publications
- Magazines
Musiconn.publish is not limited to first releases, but also enables second and hybrid releases. The quality assurance of the listed specialist literature is guaranteed by a panel of experts, which covers both the content and the institutional breadth of the subject. All content is given persistent identifiers and is professionally archived over the long term.
The interlinking of various publication systems also enables the presentation of multimedia content, for example the linking of sound samples in secondary literature published on musiconn.publish.
Document server of the Bavarian State Library
In the Center for Electronic Publishing (ZEP), the activities of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek are bundled in the establishment of several professionally defined document servers and coordinated in close cooperation with the Information Technology Department and the Munich Digitization Center . A new technical basis for the operation of document servers is currently being created for the musicology department. The development and expansion is carried out in close cooperation with the specialist information service for musicology and thus guarantees high visibility of the content in search engines, stable links using persistent identifiers, technical development in accordance with tried and tested standards and norms, as well as sustainable storage in long-term archives.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Competence Center for Licensing (KfL). Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
- ^ RISM - Das Répertoire International des Sources Musicales. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
- ^ German office of the Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM). Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
- ↑ musiconn.scoresearch. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
- ↑ New Music Acquisition Service - BSB. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
- ↑ musiconn.kontrovers. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Relevance of professionally defined document servers. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Via musiconn.publish. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
- ^ Document server FID Musikwissenschaft. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .