[AMS-announce] ANNOUNCEMENT: DDM-Online Update

[ams-announce-admin at list.bowdoin.edu]

Dear AMS-Announce Subscribers:

    The Fall update of DDM-Online has now been completed and is available
for your use at http://www.chmtl.indiana.edu/ddm/ (if you haven't already
done so, please note the new server address). The current update of
DDM-Online includes ca. 290 new or revised records (received as of 30
October 2007) and brings the total size of the database to 13,739 records.

    The substantial number of revised records reflects the third stage in
the process we began last year of reviewing each in-progress record in
DDM-Online to see if the dissertation had in fact been completed. In this
update, more than 200 records formerly located in the in-progress section
for "Romantic" have been moved over to the respective completed section in
DDM-Online. Work on the in-progress sections for "General/Miscellaneous,"
"Antiquity," "Middle Ages," "Renaissance," "Baroque," and "Classical" was
largely completed in previous updates, but in the current update, we have
completed and moved a few additional records in these sections as well. By
the time of the next update, we hope to have finished work on the
"Twentieth-Century" section, which will involve moving ca. 600 records from
the in-progress to the completed section.

    Of course, we also continue to rely on each of you as individual authors
to register your dissertation topics with us as you begin work and then to
register the dissertations themselves anew as they are completed. Online
registration is available through a link on the DDM-Online home page, but we
are always glad to send our conventional registration postcard upon request.
Please check your record in DDM-Online, and if it needs updating from a
topic to a completed dissertation (or if it is not present at all), please
do register your work with us.

    In addition, we always appreciate hearing from individuals who can
supply information on musicologically related dissertations that have not
been registered with DDM-Online for one reason or another.

    Finally, we would be very grateful if dissertation advisors and
Directors of Graduate Study would periodically review the in-progress
sections of DDM-Online and notify us of any projects they know to have been
abandoned (or completed). Quite naturally, authors sometimes neglect to
notify us if they withdraw from a program, and in the absence of specific
notice from an author or advisor, it is nearly impossible to identify an
abandoned project, especially since some dissertations are indeed "in
progress" for many years.

    With continuing appreciation for your cooperation and assistance,
                         Sincerely yours,
                                 Thomas J. Mathiesen
                                 Director

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