Encoding, Searching, and Displaying of Music Incipits in the RISM-OPAC. Diet, J. & Gerritsen, M. In Roland, P. & Kepper, J., editors, Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2013 and 2014, pages 11–14, 2016. Bavarian State Library (BSB).
Encoding, Searching, and Displaying of Music Incipits in the RISM-OPAC [link]Urn  abstract   bibtex   
The RISM-OPAC (http://opac.rism.info) is a free online catalogue that provides access to the data of the RISM series A II (music manuscripts between 1600 and 1800). It has been developed by the Bavarian State Library in cooperation with RISM and the State Library of Berlin and was launched in June 2010. In March 2011, a new version of the RISM-OPAC has been released that includes a searching possibility in the music incipits of the RISM data. Most of the 850.000 data records (as of September 2013) contain one or several music incipits that describe the beginning of instrumental or vocal parts of the music manuscripts using the Plaine&Easie code. This paper describes how the music incipits are encoded in Plaine&Easie and how the searching for music incipits is done in the RISM-OPAC. Furthermore, the rendering of an incipit encoded in Plaine&Easie in a graphical image will be covered. When a RISM-record is displayed the user will not see the Plaine&Easie code but the corresponding graphical form using the common western music notation. Finally, the current developments for the next version of the RISM-OPAC will be explained that include among others an improved user interface for searching in the music incipits and the conversion of the data records of the RISM series A/II into RDF in order to publish them as linked open data.
@inproceedings{Diet_2016,
 abstract = {The RISM-OPAC (http://opac.rism.info) is a free online catalogue that provides access to the data of the RISM series A II (music manuscripts between 1600 and 1800). It has been developed by the Bavarian State Library in cooperation with RISM and the State Library of Berlin and was launched in June 2010. In March 2011, a new version of the RISM-OPAC has been released that includes a searching possibility in the music incipits of the RISM data. Most of the 850.000 data records (as of September 2013) contain one or several music incipits that describe the beginning of instrumental or vocal parts of the music manuscripts using the Plaine{\&}Easie code. This paper describes how the music incipits are encoded in Plaine{\&}Easie and how the searching for music incipits is done in the RISM-OPAC. Furthermore, the rendering of an incipit encoded in Plaine{\&}Easie in a graphical image will be covered. When a RISM-record is displayed the user will not see the Plaine{\&}Easie code but the corresponding graphical form using the common western music notation. Finally, the current developments for the next version of the RISM-OPAC will be explained that include among others an improved user interface for searching in the music incipits and the conversion of the data records of the RISM series A/II into RDF in order to publish them as linked open data.},
 author = {Diet, J{\"u}rgen and Gerritsen, Magda},
 title = {{Encoding, Searching, and Displaying of Music Incipits in the RISM-OPAC}},
 url_URN = {https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-babs2-0000007812},
 pages = {11--14},
 publisher = {{Bavarian State Library (BSB)}},
 editor = {Roland, Perry and Kepper, Johannes},
 booktitle = {{Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2013 and 2014}},
 year = {2016},
 keywords = {mec-proceedings, mec-proceedings-2013},
 displayby = {Contributions from MEC 2013}
}

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