Hi Bronwyn,
I am glad you are taking a close look at our draft profile.
I appreciate your question (i.e. "In other words only have divs for issue,
page and pageRegion?" as it is something I wrestled with while creating
the draft.
First, I will say that I am glad that you accept (as far as I can
tell) the most important feature of the profile, i.e. that a newspaper can
be modeled with three physical entities, which are: issue, page and
pageRegion.
Second, I will say that yes, you probably could, in a given project, do as
you are suggesting, which is to do away with the other div types
(news:image and news:alto). However, the rationale for the other div types
is this: basically, they create div subelements by type of content for
each of the three physical entity div types already named (issue, page and
pageRegion). By "type of content" I mean either the image and/or alto
files for a page, of the alto file for a page region. This approach is a
bit more verbose, as you point out, but I think the advantage is that it
makes it possible to read (and manipulate) the structMap a little more
easily. For instance, if one wanted to process only the alto files at the
pageRegion level, the suggested approach makes that very easy to do. We
try to avoid relying on ID/IDREF values, filenames, etc to carry any
semantic meaning (e.g. identifying alto files by looking at
FILEID="ALT00001_ex10".
Hope this is clear.
Morgan Cundiff
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Bronwyn Lee wrote:
> Hello all
>
> The National Library of Australia is embarking on its Newspaper
> Digitisation Project and I have been looking at the LC METS Profile for
> Historical Newspapers [Draft]
> (http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/test/ndnp/00000010.html).
>
> I have a question about part of example 10 under structMap Requirement
> 2:
>
> <mets:structMap>
> -<mets:div TYPE="news:issue" DMDID="DMD_issue_ex10">
> --<mets:div TYPE="news:page">
> ---<mets:div TYPE="news:image">
> ----<mets:fptr FILEID="IMG00001_ex10" />
> ---</mets:div>
> ---<mets:div TYPE="news:alto">
> ----<mets:fptr FILEID="ALT00001_ex10" />
> ---</mets:div>
> --</mets:div>
> -</mets:div>
> </mets:structMap>
>
> Are the nested divs for news:image and news:alto necessary? Is there a
> reason why you could not have:
>
> <mets:structMap>
> -<mets:div TYPE="news:issue" DMDID="DMD_issue_ex10">
> --<mets:div TYPE="news:page">
> ---<mets:fptr FILEID="IMG00001_ex10" />
> ---<mets:fptr FILEID="ALT00001_ex10" />
> --</mets:div>
> -</mets:div>
> </mets:structMap>
>
> The reason I ask is that it seems a bit awkward when you add pageRegion.
> For example the page might have two page regions and there are image and
> alto files for the page as a whole as well as alto files for each of the
> page regions, as below:
>
> <mets:structMap>
> -<mets:div TYPE="news:issue" DMDID="DMD_issue_ex10">
> --<mets:div TYPE="news:page">
>
> ---<mets:div TYPE="news:image">
> ----<mets:fptr FILEID="IMG00001_ex10" />
> ---</mets:div>
> ---<mets:div TYPE="news:alto">
> ----<mets:fptr FILEID="ALT00001_ex10" />
> ---</mets:div>
> ---<mets:div TYPE="news:pageRegion" DMDID="DMD_article01_ex10">
> ----<mets:div TYPE="news:alto">
> -----<mets:fptr>
> ------<mets:area FILEID="ALT00001_ex11" BEGIN="P1_TB00005" />
> -----</mets:fptr>
> ----</mets:div>
> ---</mets:div>
> ---<mets:div TYPE="news:pageRegion" DMDID="DMD_article02_ex10">
> ----<mets:div TYPE="news:alto">
> -----<mets:fptr>
> ------<mets:area FILEID="ALT00001_ex11" BEGIN="P1_TB00024" />
> -----</mets:fptr>
> ----</mets:div>
> ---</mets:div>
>
> --</mets:div>
> -</mets:div>
> </mets:structMap>
>
> Here, news:image div for the page is at the same level in the hierarchy
> as the news:pageRegion divs, which doesn't seem quite right. You could
> give the pageRegion divs an order attribute value of 1 and 2 but the
> image div at the same level in the hierarchy wouldn't have an order
> attribute. Wouldn't it be better and shorter to have:
>
> <mets:structMap>
> -<mets:div TYPE="news:issue" DMDID="DMD_issue_ex10">
> --<mets:div TYPE="news:page">
> ---<mets:fptr FILEID="IMG00001_ex10" />
> ---<mets:fptr FILEID="ALT00001_ex10" />
>
> ---<mets:div TYPE="news:pageRegion" DMDID="DMD_article01_ex10">
> ----<mets:fptr>
> -----<mets:area FILEID="ALT00001_ex11" BEGIN="P1_TB00005" />
> ----</mets:fptr>
> ---</mets:div>
>
> ---<mets:div TYPE="news:pageRegion" DMDID="DMD_article02_ex10">
> ----<mets:fptr>
> -----<mets:area FILEID="ALT00001_ex11" BEGIN="P1_TB00024" />
> ----</mets:fptr>
> ---</mets:div>
>
> --</mets:div>
> -</mets:div>
> </mets:structMap>
>
> In other words only have divs for issue, page and pageRegion?
>
>
> Bronwyn Lee
> Business Analyst, Newspaper Digitisation Project
> National Library of Australia
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