artefact

Every virtual manuscript is made up from artefacts. The artefact is a polygon region of an image which the editor deems to constitute a coherent piece of material (different editors may come to different conclusions on what makes up an artefact). This may correspond to what the editors of an editio princeps have designated a “fragment”, but often may not, since the columns and fragments in those publications are often made up of joins of various types. Joined fragments should not, as a rule, be defined as a single artefact within the SQE system. Rather, each component of a join should be a separate artefact, and those artefacts can then be positioned properly with each other via the artefact_position table.