LegacyFacsimileMarkup

Legacy Facsimile Markup

This page includes some examples of different approaches for facsimile (image-based) markup.

Past TEI Recommendations: Draft Recommendations for TEI Digital Facsimiles

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou/wip/digfax.html

This document, authored by Richard Gartner and Lou Burnard and last updated in 2001, outlines ways to use TEI to represent three types of digital objects:

• complete digital transcriptions of the content of manuscript or print originals (possibly including illustrations as well as text)
• collections of digitized page images (digital facsimiles) intended for use as surrogates for complete manuscript or print originals
• digital objects (digital editions) combining both page facsimiles and transcriptions, possibly also including layers of editorial annotation

The authors attempt to address these areas of concern, which are still of concern to us today:

• the need to distinguish images of a manuscript or print source from images located within it;
• the need to support multiple formats of a single image;
• the need to associate metadata at different levels (e.g. collection level, item level);
• the need to associate transcription and facsimile in a standard way;
• the need to define practices which can be used equally well in both SGML and XML environments;
• the desire to avoid special purpose rules which assume nonstandard or ad hoc processing rules.