Hi Pierre, Yes, that's basically it. I don't want to get too specific about things if it's not necessary.
Best, Florian > On 7 Mar 2017, at 15:18, Pierre Choffé <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thank you Florian. So, basically what you want to do is signal that a PDF > contains single-page or double-page spreads, is that it? Or do you want your > model to be very specific about all the points you mention? > > Pierre > > On mar. 07 mars 2017 at 15:13 "Florian Kräutli" <">"Florian Kräutli" > <mailto:>> wrote: > Hi Pierre, > > Thanks for your reply! > > I will try to give you a bit more context. At the centre of the model is the > book. However, researchers are primarily working with its PDF reproduction. > > They want to be able to specify the number of pages in a book, and later also > want to specify the page range for each chapter in the book. > > The PDFs are retrieved from different sources and sometimes contain an extra > page with source information. In addition, as is usually the case, the page > numbers in the PDF do not correspond to the page numbers in the book. > > Because we cannot safely say how many pages are in the book, we only enter > the number of pages in the PDF. Also when we locate the chapters in the book, > we refer to the page number in the PDF and not to the book. > > Later on we would like to be able to say how many pages a chapter occupies in > a book. The same chapter will appear in several books, therefore this can > vary for the same chapter. > > Our problem is that when PDFs reproduce a double-page spread on a single > page, chapters in the PDFs will appear to be half as long as in the book. > Therefore, we want to be able to tell if the PDF contains single-page or > double-page spreads. > > All the best, > > Florian > > > On 7 Mar 2017, at 15:04, Pierre Choffé <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > Hi Florian, > > What is the granularity level of your present model? The book? > > What kind of information would you like to retrieve and for what usage? What > problem are you trying to solve? > > Are there only 2 possible cases? (either globally for the book 1PDF=1page or > 1PDF=2pages, but never “in some cases a mix of both”) > > All best, > > Pierre > > On mar. 07 mars 2017 at 12:36 "Florian Kräutli" <">"Florian Kräutli" > <mailto:>> wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a collection of Books (F5) that have been reproduced (F33) as PDFs > (E84). > In some cases, books have been digitised as spreads i.e. one page in the PDF > represents two pages in the book. > > Is there an elegant way to model this? > > Best, > > Florian > _______________________________________________ > Crm-sig mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig > <http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig>
