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Dear colleagues,

We're looking for best practice in producing metadata for codices with inconsistent pagination/foliation. We're not looking for standard descriptive bibliography rules on collation statements but rather for specifically DH approaches (ideally ones using an ontology or at least a controlled vocabulary of foliation practices) for representing an archival fonds that is inconsistent both across fascicles (some using pagination, some foliation, both recto/verso and facing pages, LTR and RTL pagination) and within them (missing pages, unnumbered pages, repeated or skipped numbers, multiple, competing paginations/foliations present as a result of consecutive archival efforts, etc.). This inconsistency obviously poses particular challenges, as the integrity and sequencing of the pages in a digital surrogate depends on providing a systematic account of what follows what, so that we can reassemble the individual, page-level digital surrogates into a browsable virtual fascicle.

Any suggestions on/off list on how to approach this, or references to relevant examples would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,

Natalie Rothman