Hello, This is an interesting discussion. I myself am in favor of having separate entries for sources that have different editorial conventions.
I understand that some people are working on producing new books in the tradition of the *Liber Usualis* but in different languages (I think there was talk about this on the list some time ago); someone working on such a project may be concerned to follow the *Liber Usualis* conventions throughout the work, whereas another may want to be able to consistently use the scheme of the *Graduale Romanum.* The question then doesn't only concern booklets, but also the potential for working on larger projects. I think that having multiple versions for each chant following the major recent printed sources (e.g. Graduale Romanum 1961, Graduale Romanum 1974, Liber Usualis) would facilitate a wider variety of future uses than having a single version in GregoBase edited according to particular principles. I also would emphasize the point made by Jacques Peron that having a standardized editorial scheme in fact makes the process of proofreading *more *difficult, because the task of proofreading/editing will go beyond a simple comparison on the image of the printed score and the version produced by Gregorio/Gregobase. If it is decided to go with multiple versions, I would recommend that an extra point of data be added for each chant that would have a sort of standardized reference system for showing that it is linked with other chants in GregoBase. One already existing database that this could follow is the CANTUS Index (http://cantusindex.org/), which is a recently started database which synthesizes the data of the CANTUS office chants database ( http://www.cantusdatabase.org/) with the Graduale Full-Text Database ( http://mass.cantusdatabase.org/). These tools are intended for musicological research more than practical chant production, but I think that they might serve well for helping this project to keep track of individual chants that are being transcribed in multiple versions. Yours, br. Innocent Smith, op
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