Partial Restoration
Definition
Supported recovery of some positions while others remain ambiguous or unreadable. Restoration can recover some physical characters while leaving others unresolved. Records and numbering conventions may provide separate contextual information.
- Context
- Obliterated markings
For example, recovering three readable positions from a damaged marking does not justify presenting the remaining uncertain positions as physically recovered characters.
Do not present inferred positions as physically recovered marks. Keep observed characters, uncertain readings and tracing information distinct.
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- Tracing Inference
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