sourceswritten
Sourceswritten is a term used in information science and humanities to denote the corpus of written sources that inform research tasks. It encompasses books, manuscripts, articles, letters, reports, and other textual documents, whether in print or digital form. The category excludes non-textual media such as audio, video, and artifacts unless those artifacts include a written component.
The term is often used to contrast with sourcesspoken (oral testimony and recordings) and sourcesvisual (maps,
In practice, categorizing sourceswritten supports bibliographic work, citation practices, and digital preservation. Researchers may annotate, transcribe,
Limitations include biases inherent in written records, unequal access to textual material across cultures and periods,
See also: primary source, secondary source, provenance, metadata, digital preservation.