Répertoire International des Sources Musicales

On the Virtuous and the Vexatious in an Age of Big Data

“…Schaffrath's group in Germany was a notable effort (Schaffrath, 1995), as was Walter Hewlett's impressive initiative at the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH). Additionally, there were the efforts of innumerable volunteers involved in the Répertoire International des Source Musicales (RISM) project (Benton, 2002). Beginning in the 1980s, I manually encoded music for one hour each evening for several years.…”