[MEI-L] form & function

[Raffaele Viglianti]

Hi Johannes,

if I had to do that in TEI, I would use <msDesc>/<msContents> to describe a
manuscript source and <bilb> for a printed source. Although looking back at
the guidelines, I can't find a specific element to describe the function or
use of the source.
I think it could be a valuable addition to MEI. Maybe allowing <bibl> inside
<source> and adding a <msDesc>-like element would help to easily distinguish
between manuscript and printed documents, unless there's already a way to do
it of which I don't know about.

Best,
Raffaele

2009/3/5 Johannes Kepper <kepper at edirom.de>

> Hi all,
>
> for the Edirom, we need to describe sources in a way that currently
> seems to be unsupported by MEI (please correct me, Perry). We have no
> encoded music to imply some of the information, so it needs to be
> declared explicitly somewhere.
>
> What we need is a distinction of the source's form: score, voices,
> piano reduction… and also of it's function: sketch, fair copy,
> presentation copy, working manuscript, performance material…
>
> When thinking about prints, there might be the need for an explicit
> labelling of first prints.
>
>
>
> Regarding the form, a simple attribute @form on <source> might be
> sufficient in most cases (what do you think about using <extent>
> instead???).
>
> For the function, we probably need an own element, probably as direct
> child of <source> and sibling of <physdesc>. It might turn out that
> the very same source serves a multiple or different functions in one
> or more editions, and in that case we would need to specify the
> context of the function with the help of an appropriate attribute.
> This context thing is nothing we're currently worried about, but I see
> some future problems in this field, and we should try to pick a
> solution that's easily extensible later. Therefore I propose a
> <function> within <source>.
>
> Any comments?
>
> johannes
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