18 Jul
2005
18 Jul
'05
6:50 p.m.
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Robert Shimmin wrote:
I know of one fairly prominent commercial digital library (Eighteenth Century Online) that made the decision that the issues with using page numbers as unique identifiers are sufficiently hairy that they went with sequential *image* numbers (which are unique), and the database maintains as metadata the page number that goes with each image number (which may not be unique, sequential, numerical, or even present).
I believe something similar is done for the page images at Early Canadiana Online. The images are just numbered sequentially starting from something like 001 and then in the interface presented to the user, actual page numbers are shown. (front matter is handled a little differently) Andrew