MDPE.18:8 - Rationale and Source Use
FPF supplies evidence discipline, cultural-evolution distinctions, archive and current-pool treatment, and common candidate-Method recovery. The Music-and-Dance specialization is the integration of audio, notation, video, bodily and partner evidence, instrument or software configuration, teaching lines, event practice, human–AI materials, and contested creator claims for one practical decision.
| Direct Method source | Use here | Boundary |
|---|---|---|
| Oral History Association, Best Practices and Ethics | Preserve narrator and interviewer positions, production and editing context, agreements, access, citation, and respectful contextualization. | New interviewing, participant review, preservation, and access Work stay with oral-history Methods. |
| Library of Congress, Primary Sources and Digital Inquiry Group, Historical Thinking Chart | Separate observation and inference; recover creator, purpose, audience, time, place, context, corroboration, and contradiction. | General historical inquiry remains with its direct Method. |
| Society for Ethnomusicology Archiving SIG, legacy documentation manual, and ethics statement | Preserve documentation, archive preparation, field position, permission, future-use, access, and source-community concerns. | The 2001 manual is historical guidance; current technical preservation requires current specialist sources. |
| Barnstaple et al., Dance reporting | Preserve performer and instructor background, setting, equipment, movement, music, adaptations, delivery, and fidelity where decision-bearing. | Complete reporting does not prove embodied preservation or receiving capability. |
| Evans et al., limits of tree thinking | Compare traits separately and consider horizontal transfer, convergence, geography, ecology, and observation bias. | Formal phylogenetic or network inference requires suitable data and its own Method. |
| Hyafil and Baumard, evoked and transmitted culture models | Offers vertical transmission, horizontal diffusion, and ecological or evoked alternatives when quantitative data and assumptions fit. | The model does not turn artifacts into cultural traits or establish one local lineage. |
| Process Mining Manifesto and Process Mining Handbook | Supplies conditional event-log discovery, conformance, enhancement, monitoring, and prediction Methods. | Event and object identities are modelling choices; logs omit tacit Work, and frequent paths are not Methods. |
Case sources: Tarraxo Agency, Gwany and Liliana, TOCA Method, Blackwell et al. Live Coding: A User’s Manual, Algorave guidelines, Serpentine The Call, and Street Tango Concept. Mutable pages were checked 2026-08-25; their use remains limited to the claims stated above.