# 2026-10-06

## Music genre test publication

Published the first policy-compliant test genre record at [Sumerian hymnody](mark://music/genres/sumerian-hymnody.md). It uses EDTF `-2XXX` for third-millennium BCE precision and remains `status:imported` pending library review.

## Music genre body cleanup

Revised [Sumerian hymnody](mark://music/genres/sumerian-hymnody.md) to version 2 under the updated music policies. Operational identity and import fields now live only in metadata; the visible body contains genre information and sources.

## Chronological genre catalog

Published [Ershemma](mark://music/genres/ershemma.md) after user approval, continuing the catalog by documented attestation. Its metadata keeps attestation separate from inception because a dated surviving tablet does not establish invention. Operational details remain separate from the readable genre body.

## Genre batch workflow

The user approved the readable genre format and authorized publishing subsequent chronological batches without another format-confirmation step. They want each period handled as a batch rather than one selected example. Coverage must still remain evidence-bounded, with unresolved candidates carried forward instead of treating a period as globally complete.

The current batch and its open coverage questions are authoritative in [the early second-millennium manifest](mark://music/genres/manifests/early-second-millennium-bce-2026-10-06.md). Batch-selection dates are not inception dates; generated era views should not turn corpus attestation into an emergence claim. The [genre catalog](mark://music/genres/index.md) now provides generated browsing views.