Fotis Jannidis wrote:
> There is no standard way to do this in TEI at the moment, but there has been some 
> discussion about this topic. I am not at home but I think this page of the TEI wiki 
> sums up some of it:
> 
> http://www.tei-c.org/wiki/index.php/LegacyFacsimileMarkup

The actual URL is:
http://www.tei-c.org.uk/wiki/index.php/LegacyFacsimileMarkup

The wiki should always be access through the .org.uk version of the address in
case you wish to add to it or edit it.  (More explanation of the technical
details is available for anyone who wants it.)

As to Christopher's question, I don't think there is anything wrong with going
for the simplest solution, the use of <pb/> and optionally some external list of
relationships or scheme that reflects this.  Simply doing <pb n="f2v"/> and then
*knowing* (and documenting in prose somewhere) that there is an image file
available f2v.jpg (or whatever) seems to get a lot of the people a lot of the
way.  Another option would be to give these xml:id's and you could even have a
separate file with a linkGrp linking these IDs to image files.  But I've always
felt that is overkill for my needs. One can create a display version which
outputs HTML pages grouping from <pb/> to <pb/> for each HTML page.  (Ok, yes,
one needs to sort out the overlapping hierarchies, but it is not impossible.)  I
favour the simple <pb n="f2v"/> approach because what I'm marking up is the
intellectual structure of the text, the display of the text and the linking it
to images is part of the step of processing for presentation.  The original
document does not have images of the entire page embedded in it.  (This is
different from say, marking up figures which appear in the document.)

This doesn't address, of course, the issues of pointing into parts of images,
and the best ways to include figures which do appear as part of the text, and
the LegacyFacsimileMarkup page has some very good suggestions for that.


-James

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Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive/AHDS:LLL, University of Oxford
James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk