IIIF / UV Behavior for Spreads and Multiple Captures of the Same Page #127
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This is a "wish" item / intellectual conundrum I've been thinking about since before coming to DLS, documenting it here in case anyone has ideas:
Wondering if we (or maybe others in the IIIF community have already done this - would like Scott to look into it, and lmk if he wants me to reach out to our contacts on Slack), have figured out a way to address page numbering and communication to users when the digital page numbers do not match the physical page numbers in an object. Examples include:
-Items where we capture two pages in one scan b/cause the image or banner/header text goes across both pages, e.g., spreads or centerfolds in a newspaper
-Items like scrapbooks where there are multiple "layers" (e.g. a small, multi-page booklet) pasted onto the larger physical page
In the case of the spreads, physical pages 26-27 are just 1 TIFF, so the automatic digital page number assigned becomes page 26 (just 1 scan). This means subsequent digital page numbers are always 1 number off from the physical and will be labeled as such in the thumbnail view of UV. One solution would be to insert a blank "placeholder" page at the point of digitization or upload or to manually go in and edit the page numbers after upload, but I'd really like to know if an automated solution exists before we consider either of those. For example, has somebody figured out a way to flag these spreads in UV or in the manifest, because the file size is larger than the others in the package? IDK.
For multiple captures of the same page, the situation is different but the outcome of users being confused by the differences in physical and digital page counts is the same...