##source##
[BCG] A container of information; includes all kinds of publications and unpublished artifacts, records, recordings, and written materials; may be used in a physical form or as a facsimile; may be classified as an original record, derivative record, or authored narrative.
[EE] An artifact, book, document, film, person, recording, website, etc., from which information is obtained. Sources are broadly classified as either an [original source](original source.md) or a [derivative source](derivative source.md), depending upon their physical form.
[MGP] A container of information; includes all kinds of publications and unpublished artifacts, records, recordings, and written materials; may be used in a physical form or as a facsimile.
[STEMMA] Origin of information, such as an artefact, book, newspaper, person, census, photograph, Web site, etc. See [definite](definite source.md) and [indefinite source](indefinite source.md). Entity representing the profiled information from a given source.