Encoding Facsimiles

The metadata for the facsimiles for each volume is contained within a separate file in the volume's data directory (e.g. the facsimile file for volume 1 is located in

data/volumes/vol01/vol1_facs.xml

). The facsimile file for each volumes contains information about various pagination schemes as well as pointing to the facsimile image file in SFU's Islandora collection. This information was originally compiled from a spreadsheet and should be edited with caution to avoid breaking any links to the page images.

The facsimile element contains all of the information about the pages with a corresp pointing to the Islandora collection landing page:

Within the facsimile, each page is represented by a surface, which at minimum contains an xml:id to provide an identifier. All pages that have a digital representation (i.e. not missing or lost pages), also contain a graphic that points to the Islandora PID.

Paratextual pages (i.e. front covers, etc) are direct children of the facsimile and contain a desc that describes the page:

For pages that are part of the manuscript proper, we group the pages into folios (i.e. front and back) in order to capture the National Library of Scotland's folio number. Each surface within a surfaceGrp is categorized as "recto" or "verso" through the type attribute. Since there are multiple pagination schemes for the manuscript, each surface also contains a set of milestones that specify the page number under a specific counting system. For instance:

This encoding says the following:

surfaceGrp/@n