[tei-council] Re: Facsimile Draft
James Cummings
James.Cummings at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Wed Aug 8 07:09:27 EDT 2007
Dear Lou/Conal/Dot/et alia,
Apologies for my delay in looking over the most recent facsimile draft.
I've read the ODD and the following little niggles are what occur to me. I
am basically happy with it as it is, and think it should be integrated with
P5 (but because of its importance expanded with more examples).
Niggles:
<item>a TEI Header and a text</item>
<item>a TEI Header and a facsimile element</item>
<item>a TEI Header, a facsimile, and a text</item>
- 'text' vs 'facsimile element' vs 'facsimile'. Confusing. Use the same
mode of expression throughout. Why no use of <gi>?
- I like the potential use of binaryObject ... could we have an example?
(And I suppose you don't want to know that it potentially is a patent
conflict with microsoft ... them suing us would be good publicity I suppose.)
- I like being able to just have a list of graphics without
surfaces/zones/etc, that is a good simple case. I don't like so much the
just putting facs="page1.png" on pb elements... but since it is a pointer I
don't think we can really control that, and obviously some others here
think that is better.
- Is surface a form of choice? Should the fact that it isn't be
highlighted somewhere. (i.e. that you might want to point to more than one
of these simultaneously somewhere?)
- I still don't like @box as a name, but I have no better suggestions.
"blah blah I cant <lb/> help they only taught me old english in print form"
- Which image is it again that you're reading, as council happens to have a
few medievalists on it at the moment, I'm sure we can transcribe it more
accurately. Perhaps we should also include some other manuscript and even
print sources as examples? (Maybe a Wilfred Owen Postcard or some such?
with recto and verso images.)
-James
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Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford
James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk
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