[MEI-L] history of sources / items

[Eleanor Selfridge-Field]

"Provenance" is a standard item in catalogues of works in manuscript, but
it has a range of meanings, all of which might comfortable fit within
"history".  It sometimes identifies previously owners but equally often it
refers to a physical location (city, institution, performing group et
al.).

Eleanor

Eleanor Selfridge-Field
Consulting Professor, Music (and, by courtesy, Symbolic Systems)
Braun Music Center #129
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-3076, USA
http://www.stanford.edu/~esfield/  +1/ 650 725-9242


-----Original Message-----
From: mei-l [mailto:mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de] On Behalf Of
Johannes Kepper
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 2:39 AM
To: Music Encoding Initiative
Subject: [MEI-L] history of sources / items

Dear list,

while discussing the upcoming Weber Werkverzeichnis (Weber's work
catalogue) with Kristina Richts and Joachim Veit, I can't remember why we
dropped the <history> element from sources and items? We have it on works
and expressions, but not on these two. However, it might be interested to
write something about the creation of a source (which is not the same as
the provenance, which is available). Can someone please remind me of our
argument to drop it? Otherwise, it would be a fault that we might want to
correct.

Btw., <bibl> seems to be equally hidden (you can get it from source at
source/physDesc/physMedium/bibl.). 

Best,
Johannes