[DCRM-L] wormholes

[Margaret Nichols]

I like the phrase "Post-Production Evidence" because it can 
accommodate non-human occurrences such as worming, water damage, 
light damage, and insect damage, which might not be clearly covered 
by a phrase like "Provenance, use, treatment and other evidence." 
Just my two cents (which, in the current economic climate, probably 
have fallen to one cent in value)--

Best,

Margaret

At 12:31 PM 11/14/2008, you wrote:
>Larry's on the right track (and I think it's a perfectly serious matter
>that the title of a thesaurus has proved to be somewhat misleading).
>It's hard not to be wordy, but perhaps something on the order of
>"Provenance, use, treatment and other evidence in books", or "Evidence
>of ownership, use, treatment, etc." Even without "etc." that seems to
>indicate the range of phenomena, including the consequences of neglect,
>abuse, and interference.
>
>Richard
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On
>Behalf Of Laurence Creider
>Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:33 AM
>To: Deborah J. Leslie
>Cc: DCRM Revision Group List
>Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] wormholes
>
>Perhaps the Provenance Evidence list might be named something like
>"Post-Production Evidence." It seems to me that we are generally talking
>about changes in a specific physical item after binding, whether these
>be worming or annotations or whatever.
>
>"Extra-illustrated copies" would become so pre-binding or at least
>before a final binding (if the extra illustrations are inserted into a
>book issued in a publisher's binding), so they would be an exception or
>would need to go into another thesaurus.
>
>The term "Copy-specific evidence" might be appropriate except that it
>would logically include binding terms for early and some later books.
>
>Anyway, a thought.
>Larry

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