Here you can find the records of the RISM Catalog as open data in MARCXML and RDF. You can query the dataset via our SPARQL endpoint.

These data are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License CC-BY.

More information about using the RISM data can be found on our Data Services page.

 (1) The RISM OPAC data in MARCXML:

  • Complete data set, more than 1,400,000 records and corresponding authority file data: rismAllMARCXML.zip

Note about the relational model:The field links of the musical source files are through the personal name fields 100$0 and 700$0, for corporate names through 710$0, for sigla through 852$x and for catalogs of works and references to secondary literature through the literature short title. In most cases, the target of the link is control field 001; for catalogs/literature it is the short title in 210$a.

(2) The RISM OPAC data in RDF:

(3) GND and VIAF BEACON files for RISM authority records:

Last update: Februrary 2024