Virtual library of musicology

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The Virtual Library of Musicology , or ViFaMusik for short , was a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) to provide sources and materials for music and musicology .

In March 2020, the Virtual Library of Musicology was officially switched off and replaced by the online portal musiconn - For networked musicology .

organization

The Virtual Library of Musicology was set up and expanded from 2005 to 2013 at the Bavarian State Library together with the State Institute for Music Research in Berlin and the Society for Music Research . Since 2014 it has been part of the “ Fachinformationsdienst Musikwissenschaft” at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB) . In addition to the institutions involved, the musicological specialist community was closely involved in the further development of ViFaMusik. An advisory board for the musicology specialist information service served this purpose.

ViFaMusik offers

The ViFaMusik search

A central offer of ViFaMusik was the meta search , in which a search could be made in many different data sources at the same time. a. in the music collections of renowned European music libraries in Berlin, Leipzig, London, Munich and Vienna, in the RISM database, in tables of contents from relevant magazines and in carefully selected Internet resources.

Specialist information guide and web archiving of Internet resources

In the ViFaMusik specialist information guide, almost 3,000 musicological-relevant Internet resources were made accessible and made available via a separate browsing and search interface. Since 2014, a subset of these websites, including their sub-pages, has been copied and archived twice a year after obtaining the appropriate permission from the rights holder. The archived websites are listed in the catalog of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and cannot be changed.

Digital collections

A large number of digital musicological offers from various institutions were listed in the “Digital Collections” section.

Document server

Born digital documents and retro- digitized items with URNs were published in the ViFaMusik document server and long-term archived by the BSB.

Expert and institute database

The expert database contained almost 1000 musicological experts from German-speaking countries. The experts themselves were responsible for maintaining this data. The expert entries were linked to the literature lists from the German National Library, the Bavarian Library Association and the Bibliography of Music Literature (BMS online) via the unique number of the Common Authority File (GND) . The ViFaMusik institute database listed almost 200 musicological and music education institutes in German-speaking countries.

RIdIM

The "Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale" (RIdIM) is an international association for the indexing and cataloging of music and dance performances in the field of fine arts and handicrafts. As part of the ViFaMusik project, a web interface was set up to present the data from the German RIdIM office.

RISM-OPAC

The " Répertoire International des Sources Musicales " (RISM) aims to document the musical sources (especially handwritten and printed sheet music) as comprehensively as possible worldwide. The implementation of the RISM-OPAC was mainly financed by project funds from ViFaMusik. The RISM data were integrated into the ViFaMusik search as a data source. In addition, the RISM data is available as Linked Open Data in MARC-XML format and in RDF format on a subpage of the RISM-OPAC.

Concise dictionary of musical terminology

ViFaMusik provided the concise dictionary of musical terminology (HmT) including a full-text search online and integrated it into the ViFaMusik search. All HmT articles were scanned, processed with OCR and given a special form of presentation. Each individual page had a persistent link and was therefore quotable. In the full view of an HmT article, all independent music theory publications before 1900 recognized in the text were also displayed. If these were freely available online as digital copies, the user was forwarded to these digital copies via a stable link.

Audio collection

The ViFaMusik audio collection was a compilation of various Internet resources with relevant audio content. It was divided into audio documents, databases & archives, documentaries, voice audios, apps, radio, film, streaming and experimental.

Themed portals

ViFaMusik offered all specialist groups of the Society for Music Research the opportunity to create and maintain themed portals in ViFaMusik.

See also

literature

  • Jürgen Diet: "Status and perspectives of ViFaMusik as part of the new specialist information service for musicology", library service, volume 50, issue 2 (February 2016)
  • Jürgen Diet: “The current offers of ViFaMusik and their expansion plans”, Die Tonkunst, Volume, Issue 1 (April 2015), pp. 190–191.
  • Jürgen Diet, Reiner Nägele: “The specialist information service for musicology and the new role of ViFaMusik”, library research and practice, volume 38, issue 1 (April 2014), pp. 56–61.
  • Judith I. Haug (Ed.): “Musicology in the Digital Age. Symposium of the Virtual Library of Musicology ”, Göttingen 2012. Munich, Münster and Berlin: Virtual Library of Musicology 2013. Online publication.
  • Adrian Kuhl, Andrea Zedler: "Scientific working techniques", in: Studying musicology, ed. by Kordula Knaus and Andrea Zedler, Munich 2012, pp. 62–68.
  • Reiner Nägele: “The benefits of ViFaMusik for musicology. A Position Determination ”, Journal of Libraries and Bibliography, Volume 59, Issue 3–4 (August 2012), pp. 137–145.

Reviews

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.vifamusik.de/ueber-uns/
  2. ↑ http://www.ridim-deutschland.de