Letters within a Comprehensive Research Tool: Archive Digitisation at the Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt

Abstract

In 2010, the Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt started an extensive digitisation project of its archive collections that contain relevant sources for music history from the postwar era until today. In addition to preserving the archives through digitisation and indexing, a web database is currently being developed in order to enable scholars all over the world to research the IMD archival collection. [...]