Jon Noring wrote:
Well, as I asked in replying to Juliet's message, is the identifier simply a sequential integer, or does it contain some metadata?
Also, what metadata is recorded for each project, and is it in some normalized (machine-readable) form, such as Dublin Core?
And I answered in my reply to that message.
Juliet went into even gorier detail on this! But despite the complexity of the PG <--> DP id mappings, once a DP project ID is associated with a particular scan set, then the association to a PG text is possible to machine trace. Am I right on this?
No, it isn't necessarily possible to machine trace. We can trace those mappings that we represent in our database, but our current structure doesn't allow for all possible mappings, in particular one-to-many (DP to PG) and many-to-many. These are relatively rare, but they do occur. The information is there for most cases. But the exceptions will be what slows down whatever we decide to do. As I've said, we've had the image archive in mind all along. But the metadata rounds, specialist rounds, improved proofing/formatting interface, and finding or developing tools to support creation of PGTEI texts are all higher priorities at the moment. JulietS