Digital catalogue of Anton Bruckner´s works

The project Digital Catalogue of Anton Bruckners Works is designed to bring about a new and fully revised edition of the printed Werkverzeichnis Anton Bruckner (WAB), published in 1977. It will benefit from syner- gy with two projects already up and running www.bruckner-online.at and Digital Anton Bruckner Lexicon under the auspices of the Division of Musicology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The Digital Anton Bruckner Lexicon amounts to a digital and fully revised new edition of the 1996 Anton Bruckner. Ein Handbuch. When published early in 2017, it will present extensive Bruckner scholarship in a total of over 1000 articles. www.bruckner-online.at is now a comprehensive internet portal on Anton Bruckner, including not only electronically documented manuscript sources but also compositions, literature, and information on rele- vant persons and places. Complete digital versions of all manuscripts, first prints and the old Complete Works Edition are available. At present, 750 shelf-marks with critical commentaries have been recorded. 32,000 images of digitized manuscripts and 6,000 of prints are available. The websites launch attracted significant media attention. An announcement on the FWF-scilog led to 200 press reports in European print and online media. Several radio interviews were held, including for Deutschlandradio in Berlin and the Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne. Traditional printed forms of publication will increasingly be replaced by digital forms of cataloguing, archiv- ing and editing musical notation. The XML-based coding technique of the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) has now established itself as the standard in this field. Furthermore, MEI is ideally suited to storing metada- ta of works and sources. The current Bruckner archive system based on common databases will be transformed to XML-MEI data storage. The project aims to create a digital, multimedia Bruckner works catalogue in a format suitable for long-term conservation and platform-independent data exchange. The XML data processing and storage modalities to be used, together with the vast information resources to be made available, ensure that the project will more than match up to modern standards. The www.bruckner-online.at web archive will be appreciably extended and will be the most comprehensive web presence for any composer worldwide.

The project "Digital Catalogue of Anton Bruckner's Works" is designed to bring about a new and fully revised edition of the printed "Werkverzeichnis Anton Bruckner" (WAB), published in 1977. It will benefit from synergy with projects already up and running - www.bruckner-online.at, "Digital Music Analyses with MEI" and "Anton Bruckner- Lexikon online" - under the auspices of the Division of Musicology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The Digital Anton Bruckner Lexicon amounts to a digital and fully revised new edition of the 1996 Anton Bruckner. Ein Handbuch. www.bruckner-online.at is a comprehensive internet portal on Anton Bruckner, including not only electronically documented manuscript sources but also compositions, literature, and information on relevant persons and places. Complete digital versions of all manuscripts, first prints and the old "Complete Works Edition" are available. At present, 750 shelf-marks with critical commentaries have been recorded. 32,000 images of digitized manuscripts and 6,000 of prints are available.The new catalogue of works also contains detailed information on more than 250 compositions by Bruckner. Traditional printed forms of publication will increasingly be replaced by digital forms of cataloguing, archiving and editing musical notation. The XML-based coding technique of the "Music Encoding Initiative" (MEI) has now established itself as the standard in this field. Furthermore, MEI is ideally suited to storing metadata of works and sources. The Bruckner archive system based on common databases was transformed to XML-MEI data storage. The project created a digital, multimedia Bruckner works catalogue in a format suitable for long-term conservation and platform-independent data exchange. The XML data processing and storage modalities used, together with the vast information resources available, ensure that the project has more than matched up to modern standards. The www.bruckner-online.at web archive was appreciably extended and is now one of the most comprehensive web presence for any composer worldwide.