Cataloguing Commission: Working Group on Exchange of Authority DataAuthor(s): Malcolm JonesSource: Fontes Artis Musicae, Vol. 58, No. 4 (October-December 2011), p. 396Published by: International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres(IAML)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23512715 .

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396 FONTES ARTIS MUSICAE 58/4

2010 they started this on-line guide to music archives, currently 51 institutions are network

ing. More than 500 fonds are described down to item level. The descriptions are made accord

ing to the international standard ISAD(G). Isabel Lozano from the National Library of

Spain showed us the prototype that they have

developed which can link between the collec tion level description of the archives/fonds to the item level. The archives in question are pri

vate archives after individuals and institutions. The archival structure is shown, a 'tree', this is

the collection-level description. At the item level there is a link to the library catalogue, it is made via the name of the archive. It is also pos

sible to go from the item level to the fonds level. After examining these different ways to co

operate, we discussed with RISM if their direc

tory could be linked to lists of music archives at

various institutions.

A new period for the working group was ap

proved by Council for 2011-2014. The aim is still to see where music archives are housed and to

search systems in various countries at the same

time. We will start by evaluating different pos sibilities during the upcoming year.

Jon Bagiiés Co-Chair

Cataloguing Commission: Working Group on Access to Performance

Ephemera

The Working Group met during the IAML con ference in Dublin on 26 July and in a joint ses sion with the Working Group on Access to Music Archives on 28 July. Software develop ment work funded by the IAML (UK and Ireland) Branch and undertaken by Orangeleaf

Systems in 2011 has led to the creation of a new Institutions Server, which will serve as a joint repository of data concerning holding institu tions for the Concert Programmes Online data

base and the Cecilia database. Previously, this data was held centrally by the Collections

Trust, a body that promotes access to libraries, archives and museums throughout the UK.

The new Institution Server will make it possible to add records describing programme collec

tions wherever they are held, regardless of geo

graphical location. Discussion at the group meetings focused on the potential this offers for

widening participation in the Concert Pro

grammes Project to other IAML branches, to

create an International Register of Perfor

mance Ephemera Collections. Following

Rupert Ridgewell's election to the post of Chair of the Bibliography Commission, it was agreed that Prof. Paul Banks (Head of Collections, Royal College of Music, London) should be nominated to be the new Chair of the Working

Group. This appointment was confirmed at the

IAML Council session on 28 July and the

group's term of office was extended by three

years to 2014.

Rupert Ridgewell Chair

Cataloguing Commission: Working Group on Exchange of Authority Data

After several years of inactivity, the Group

was formally wound up at the Dublin 2011 conference.

Malcolm Jones

Chair

Cataloguing Commission: Working Group on a Music Ontology

After a couple of years of inactivity and in the

realization that work on technical standards

was being undertaken in various places outside

IAML the Group was formally wound up at the

Dublin 2011 conference.

Antony Gordon

Chair

Constitution Committee

No issues were referred to the Constitution

Committee for consideration during the course

of the year or during the conference in Dublin,

so the Committee has no further report to

make.

Richard Chesser Chair

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