Re: complex <dimensions>

Hi James

Thank you - interesting approach. That would work, I think, where the dimensions of the written space change, since that is a question of layout. But it doesn't seem right to be to have the leaf dimensions inside layout: that seems more naturally part of <extent>...

Matthew


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From: James Cummings <[email protected]>
Sent: 10 March 2017 10:20
To: MLH; [email protected]
Subject: Re: complex <dimensions>


Hi Matthew,

I would probably have recorded this in multiple <layout> elements
...something like:

  <objectDesc>
    <layoutDesc>
      <layout writtenLines="35">
        <locus from="5r" to="10v">fol. 5r to 10v</locus>
        <dimensions type="leaf">
          <height></height>
          <width></width>
          <depth></depth>
        </dimensions>
        <note>This layout is fairly boring</note>
      </layout>
      <layout writtenLines="5">
        <locus from="11r" to="123v">fol. 11r to 123v</locus>
        <dimensions type="leaf">
          <height></height>
          <width></width>
          <depth></depth>
        </dimensions>
        <note>Wow! The rest of this ms has a weird layout.</note>
        </layout>
    </layoutDesc>
  </objectDesc>

Though it does beg the question, why are multiple layouts
possible and not multiple supports? If there was the possibility
of multiple supports I would have done the same as above but with
support.

-James

On 09/03/17 19:17, Syd Bauman wrote:
> I think you may end up wanting <note> and <locus> inside
> <dimensions>, but certainly poke at the use of the @precision,
> @scope, @atLeast, @atMost, @min, @max, and @confidence attributes of
> <dimensions> first. My bet is that describing variability with @min,
> @max, and perhaps @confidence is likely to be sufficient; but that
> because this isn't really what @scope was designed for, it may be
> difficult (or abusive) to use it to express what portion of the
> manuscript a particular <dimensions> applies to.
>
>> How would people go about encoding the dimensions of a manuscript
>> or other object where the dimensions (either leaf or written space)
>> vary between different sections of the manuscript? And/or, where a
>> significant fact about those dimensions should be recorded (e.g.
>> that the leaves have been sigificantly cropped by a binder). I
>> should say that we are using <dimensions> not <measure> to record
>> these dimensions. The obvious solution seems to be to allow <locus>
>> and <note> inside <dimensions>, and I would like to create a ticket
>> for this, but I'd like to see if people have any other suggestions
>> before I do this!


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