Hi all, I'm glad to announce our third Invenio at UAB, IFMuC, Inventari dels Fons Musicals de Catalunya, or Catalan Musical Sources Catalogue. Starting with over 8,400 records from the first 13 collections, it gives public access for the catalogues that have been previously published on several paper paper volumes since 2001 by the Department of Art and Musicology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, under the direction of Josep Maria Gregori i Cifré.
Those first 13 collections are a small part of the 300 registered collections so far, containing unknown works by Catalan composers, and work is underway to continue it, often with the aid of graduate UAB Musicology students. IFMuC has been online since several months at http://ifmuc.uab.cat/, and it is now officially announced. A medium size explanation can be found at Early Music, Vol. 43, Issue 2, p. 367-368 (freely available at http://em.oxfordjournals.org/content/43/2/367.full) and a longer one at http://pagines.uab.cat/ifmuc/. For our Invenio colleagues, you may find some ideas that you may find interesting. First, a collaboration with the Amical Viquipèdia (the Catalan Wikipedia Chapter) with the Musicology students to create missing articles at the Wikipedia for those composers (http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquiprojecte:IFMuC). This is completed, of course, with links from IFMuC back to the Wikipedia. Those links are in black color if the link exists, or red if it is missing (ex: http://ifmuc.uab.cat/collection/CdE:Au). Second, there are online multilingual translations for instruments and voices abbreviatures, so that they can be understood, not only for non-Catalan readers, but also for non-specialists, because they develop those abbreviatures or ancient instruments to full names. Finally, we are happy to find out that Invenio social tools have started to help to identify ambiguous composers (http://ifmuc.uab.cat/record/4947/comments). Best regards, Ferran
