Acknowledgements
This database is the result of a cataloguing project undertaken at Royal Holloway, University of London, in collaboration with The RISM (UK) Trust and The British Library, and with the generous support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Funding to catalogue the Julian Marshall Collection at the British Library was kindly provided by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
This database is hosted by Royal Holloway, University of London, and a copy of the dataset has been preserved by the Arts & Humanities Data Service (AHDS) as part of their Performing Arts Collections.
Project Director: Prof David Charlton
Project Manager: Dr Sandra Tuppen
RISM Cataloguers: Dr Peter Bennett, Christine Bethune, Dr Andrea Bornstein, Clare Brown, Caroline Cradock, Charlene Crampin, Dr Laura Davey, Dr Barbara Diana, Nigel Evans, Dr Mark Fitzgerald, Helen Hale-Martin, Adrian Head, Katharine Hogg, Margaret Jones, Francis Knights, Matthew Mills, Dr Bernadette Nelson, Dr Robert Rawson, Dr Jane Roper, Paula Russell, Caroline Shaw, Brooke Shelley, Mark Summers, Dr Myfanwy Walters.
The creation of this database would not have been possible without the librarians and archivists who made their collections available to the project team. Their help and advice is gratefully acknowledged here. Information on the St Paul's Cathedral manuscripts is included by permission of the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral, London. The project team would also like to thank the following for their assistance: the RISM Ireland working group, Dr Nicolas Bell, Dr Brian Crosby, Laura Davies, Malcolm Jones, Alex McIntyre, Robert Parker and Chris Wiley.
Technical Information:
This online database application is developed and maintained by Chad Thatcher using the following open source developments:
| Debian GNU/Linux operating system | Ruby programming language | Rails web application framework | MySQL database server |
| Apache web server | Mongrel cluster server | Ferret full-text search engine | Lilypond music notation system |
| Image Magick image processing system | Capistrano deployment framework | Subversion revision control system | Eclipse development environment |
Chad would also like to thank Dr. Rainer Typke for his help in providing source code for Incipit to Lilypond format conversion.
The incipit search engine is based on the n-gram algorithm created by Dr Matthew Dovey. The technical advisor to the RISM Music Manuscripts Project was Dr Marilyn Deegan.
