The information on this database has been assembled from a number of key sources, including the field notes of Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead (including interviews with artists from Batuan by their assistant, Made Kaler), the re-working by Hildred Geertz of an analysis of the Bateson-Mead material, the study of Batuan in the 1980s by Klaus Höhn, and the book Bali Bravo, edited by Agus Dermawan T.
Spellings have been modernised for the purposes of standardisation, so that the colonial-era ‘oe’ has been changed to ‘u’; and the pre-1972 spellings have all been changed (‘dj’ is now ‘j’, ‘j’ is now ‘y’, and ‘tj’ is now ‘c’). Where possible the standard forms of spelling for Balinese words have been used (adding the silent ‘e’ between consonants, eg ‘Soberat’ rather than ‘Sobrat’, and using the Balinese ‘ma-‘ instead of Malay/Indonesian ‘me-’ etc for verbal forms).