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RISM vs CERN

I understand that people that is not familiarised with RISM may think that cannot be an institution as reliable as CERN. So I decided to compare them in a simple table, with data taken from their webs and wikipedia pages. What I want to show is that, besides the curious fact that both official names names are in French, they are quite similar in age and internationalisation, although, of course CERN experiments and news have more appeal for the masses.

Fact RISM CERN
Official, French name Répertoire international des sources musicales Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire
English name International Inventory of Musical Sources European Organization for Nuclear Research
Year founded 1952 1954
Current countries 35 23
Headquaters Frankfurt, Germany Genève, Swizerland
Focus Historical musical sources Nuclear physics
Motto Knowing what exists and where it is kept Accelerating science
Web site http://www.rism.info/ https://home.cern/
English wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Répertoire_International_des_Sources_Musicales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN
Repository software http://muscat-project.org/ https://invenio-software.org/
Year started 2002 (http://muscat-project.org/history.html) 2002 (http://web.archive.org/web/20020806075834/http://cdsware.cern.ch/download/)
Current version 7.0 (https://github.com/rism-ch/muscat/releases) 3.4 (https://github.com/inveniosoftware/invenio/releases)
Release notes https://github.com/rism-ch/muscat/blob/master/CHANGELOG https://invenio-software.org/blog/2020-12-17-invenio-v340-released/

An overview of RISM goals, its intimate relation with the development of Muscat, and its strategic choice for Marc21 to fullfill its main goal, can be found in this 2017 video:

Actualitzat per Ferran Jorba fa més de 5 anys · 11 revisions