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| ==General principles==
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| The Manual of Style is a guide applicable to all TTA contents. It presents TTA's house style, and is intended to help editors to produce contents with language, layout, and formatting that are consistent, clear, and precise. The goal is to make the whole archive easier and more intuitive to use.
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| The Traditional Tune Archive is a core knowledge base of curated, semantic data which means that the subject of the contents is related, as the title imply, to the traditional music in particular the music of North America, British Isles and Ireland.
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| It also means that the contents, as they are represented, are not automatically rendered by an algorithm but accurately entered following few simple and clear typographical style guidelines.
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| Finally the semantic attribute refers to the possibility to get queried and aggregated information otherwise inaccessible in traditional wiki that are only good for storing and retrieving individual facts.
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| In the Traditional Tune Archive, information relating to a piece of music are of type master (the semantic properties) and descriptive (Annotation).
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| The addition of semantic properties is quite simple because the user is guided through the process by a form, while adding annotation to a tune requires, at least, a bit of musical and historical knowledge
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| Given that, to insert a note one is required to comply with some simple rules to give the data an internal consistency (if only typographical) and write his notes in a blank edit page related (linked) to the tune entered in the form mentioned above.
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| ==Foreword==
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| In addition to the music itself, each tune has properties or characteristics, which one will be asked to identify in the first tab of an "ADD TUNES" form, called "TUNE FIELDS". The more characteristics or properties that can be identified and entered about a melody, then the more rich is the semantic environment created. Furthermore, the more rich the environment, then the more robust will be the outcome of queries presented to the archive. The property headings in the "Tune Fields" section are explained below, followed by explanations of the contents of subsequent tabs and the style-guide that apply. One need not to enter all of the fields, but enter as many as one can accurately record. If uncertain of the veracity of information, please do not add it to the tune fields, although one may enter it (with qualifications about its factuality) in the descriptive (annotation) section.
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| == ADD TUNES tab ==
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| === Title ===
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| The name of the tune being entered.
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| This is a summary of the policy governing the titles of TTA's tune. It applies to the titles of TTA tune, not of external tune that are cited.
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| *Tune titles should conform to TTA's Tune titles, including the use of English language.
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| *Titles other than in English are to be entered in the original language, except where the translated title has been disseminated and has currency in English, in which case the English title is preferred.
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| *The initial letter of each title word is capitalized (except the a, an, the or of when not the first word).
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| *Do not use a, an, or the as the first word (Absent Minded Man (The), not The Absent Minded Man), unless by convention it is an inseparable part of a name.
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| *Avoid special characters such as the slash (/), plus sign (+), braces ({ }), and square brackets ([ ]), unless by convention it is an inseparable part of a name (Aggie Whyte's (Jig)) ; use and instead of an ampersand (&), unless the ampersand is an accepted part of a name (Emerson, Lake & Palmer).
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| *The final visible character of a title should not be a punctuation mark, unless the punctuation is part of a name (A-tiocfad ty sios go Lyunbeac?), an abbreviation is used, or a closing round bracket or quotation mark is required ('A' Polka (2)).
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| === Also Known As ===
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| The alternate titles associated with the tune, including alternate spellings and variants of the title under which the tune is entered (e.g. "Mrs. Brown" for "Miss Brown").
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| *English translations of titles may be included in this field.
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| *Tunes cognate in only one strain, but not other strains, may be entered provided an explanation of the relatedness of the various strains is included in the descriptive (annotation) section.
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| *More than one alternate title can be entered separated by commas.
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| *All of the guidance in [[#Title|Tune title]] immediately above applies to Also Known As headings as well.
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