[tei-council] updated facsimile odd

[Lou Burnard]

Christian Wittern wrote:
> Let's assume you have a page of 297x210mm, which is covered by the 
> surface element, which gives you also a grid of 0 0 100 100 to work 
> from.  The grid is more like the one you have on maps, which simple go 
> from A, B, C, D,... and 1, 2, 3, 4, ... which allows you to say that 
> something you are interested in is in C1, without any need to worry 
> about the scale of the map.  In the same way, you could say there is a 
> spot of spilled ink at 20 20 40 40.  If and only if you want to know 
> the size of this spot, then you will need to look up the dimensions 
> and calculate the scale factor.
>

Exactly. I will steal this explanation for the draft!

>> I think real world object coordinates would be brilliant to have.
>> Conservators would love them too, I bet, since they would be image
>> independent (you'd just need to add new reference coordinates to your
>> lookup table). But we are simply not talking about that or any other
>> measurement as far as I can see.
>>   
> See above, I think we can't really do without providing the 
> possibility of registering dimensions.
>

Is there a negative too many in that sentence, or are you suggesting we 
*should* include the dimensions of the original somewhere? and if so, how?


> Now this seems coming closer and closer to reinventing METS...
>

+1