TY - JOUR AB - Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to present a new web‐based cataloguing system for the global music bibliography project, Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM), and discuss the implications for the manipulation and discovery of musical heritage materials.Design/methodology/approach– The paper is designed to illustrate the workflow and tools used in creating a global musical catalogue, and to present the experiences of the Swiss RISM working group in developing new tools and re‐thinking traditional music bibliography tools.Findings– The new tools developed present a further decrease in latency between source cataloguing and availability to users by integrating both the cataloguing and exploration interfaces into a single web application.Research limitations/implications– For music researchers, the opportunity to search and manipulate a global musical source database opens up new possibilities for data‐driven computational musicology and analysis.Originality/value– This paper reports preliminary work in musical incipit searching in the Swiss RISM database, as well as the latest developments in integrating digital facsimile images and sound resources. VL - 28 IS - 1 SN - 1065-075X DO - 10.1108/10650751211197068 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/10650751211197068 AU - Pugin Laurent AU - Hankinson Andrew AU - Fujinaga Ichiro ED - Editor PY - 2012 Y1 - 2012/01/01 TI - Digital preservation and access strategies for musical heritage: the Swiss RISM experience T2 - OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 43 EP - 55 Y2 - 2024/03/29 ER -