[tei-council] facsimile - low-end markup

Laurent Romary laurent.romary at loria.fr
Thu Jul 26 09:43:27 EDT 2007


Triple yes also for me. We urgently need some basic principles  
concerning such projects and be able to point to METS when something  
more ellaborated comes along.
Laurent

Le 26 juil. 07 à 15:28, Dot Porter a écrit :

> Yes, yes, yes. Conal's minimum recommendation is exactly what, at
> minimum, I would like to see. It would work for projects with only one
> set of image files, which would be (I expect) most projects.
>
> For projects with multiple sets of images, we might simply point to
> METS (for now) rather than trying to put in something of our own.
>
> Dot
>
> On 7/26/07, Conal Tuohy <Conal.Tuohy at vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
>> There seems to be a consensus that at least a minimal facsimile  
>> markup is really needed in P5 version 1.0.
>>
>> This needs to support the case of a transcript with a single set  
>> of page images (i.e. each page would have an optional image file  
>> associated with it). The simplest way would be to extend <pb> to  
>> add a URL attribute pointing to the facsimile graphic. e.g.
>>
>> <pb graphic="p1.png" n="1" xml:id="p1"/>
>>
>> I believe this is as far as Syd thinks we should go at this point,  
>> but I think there is also a strongly felt need for a mechanism to  
>> assign graphical coordinates to pieces of text, which we should  
>> address. This is most easily done by adding an optional @coords  
>> attribute to elements which can appear inside <text>. e.g.
>>
>> <p coords="10 100 510 110">This paragraph is 500x10 pixels.</p>
>>
>> This is about as far as many "facsimile" customisations of TEI  
>> have gone, and I think this is also a sensible minimum. NB this  
>> minimum would not use <graphic> elements to encode the facsimile  
>> images, hence it does not require a <facsimile> element.
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