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We are pleased to announce that all of the material on is now available in machine-readable form.

We have added the text, translation, and notes for each work in JSON format, an encoding scheme that is readable both by people and by computers. It offers a way to incorporate the material into Web pages and other online and electronic resources. These representations can also be the starting point for machine-aided analysis.

The JSON version of each text is available at BachCantataTexts.org/BWVxxx.json, for example . Included are basic information about the work; links to resources on BachCantataTexts.org; and both plain text and html versions of text, translation, and notes.

The formal definition of the Cantata object, the basic unit of the data, is available at

If you are new to JSON you can read about the fundamentals at

We would be especially interested to hear how people make use of this resource; please let us know about your work with it.

BachCantataTexts.org is a freely available source for new historically-informed English translations of J. S. Bach's vocal works, prepared and annotated by Michael Marissen (Swarthmore College, emeritus) and Daniel R. Melamed (Indiana University, emeritus/Bloomington Bach Cantata Project).