[tei-council] facsimile odd -- what is a facsimile?

James Cummings James.Cummings at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Mon Jul 23 07:11:42 EDT 2007


Lou Burnard wrote:


> If we are going to have markup which describes the page images
> themselves, as digital objects, then the set of page images constituting
> a work isa kind of "text" itself and should be treated as such. In
> short: my proposal is
> a) add a new element <facsimile> (or better word if we can think of one)
> b) change the content model of <TEI> and of <group> to permit
> (text|facsimile) where they currently permit <text>
> 
> Note that I am not proposing a class model.textLike because I cannot
> think of any other kind of thing that might go in there -- I'd suggest
> that talking books, if we want to digitize them, are another form of
> facsimile.

For the record I have no strong objections to this method.  I've been
thinking of facsimile images as a form of tei:surrogates, and we should
document how tei:surrogates (which is a metadata element) relates to the
content of your proposed tei:facsimile

-James

-- 
Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford
James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk



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