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Data from the Integrating Digital Papyrology project
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Explanation for provenance types #439

Closed Xennis closed 2 months ago

Xennis commented 2 months ago

Hi! For the provenance field this repo contains the following types (type attribute):

acquired
composed
executed
found
located
received
sent
stored
written

Can I find somewhere a documentation what each type means?

Example

Example of the field I'm talking about, here with the types found and composed

https://github.com/papyri/idp.data/blob/c258522d8ae0956fdf22bd4602f3cc9771f24b6f/DCLP/69/68001.xml#L45-L58

samosafuz commented 2 months ago

These different values for provenance[@type] are descriptive, but there is considerable room for overlap: something that was stored somewhere was probably also found there; something that was composed in one place was probably also sent from there. In the DCLP collection, one finds found and written consistently, because this collection is built upon metadata in the Leuven Database of Ancient Books; in the HGV collection, located is the most common @type. There is no documentation or schema that governs these, but for discussion of place, see the discussion of Trismegistos.

Xennis commented 2 months ago

Thanks a lot for the clarification.