For a website theory: digital pages

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The dimensions of a page

The term “page” is used to refer to what is displayed on the screen, with the understanding that one should scroll the image if it appears not to fit in the current visible section of the screen. This depends on factors such as the screen resolution or of course the length of the “page.” See above for more on the notion of “page”.

In some cases, a page may be quite long and correposnd in fact to a “chapter” in a book, as in this page from the current website, or this example for a bibliographical digital book, or in this one for the digital book of an excavation unit, or this one from the ceramics topical book.

In other cases, a page my be quite short, as in this archival note or in this description of a stratum.

For each website, under “Front Matter,” we give a count of the “pages” comprised in the website, see for instance in this website.

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Discursive and segmented pages

In the UGR system there are two main types of digital pages.

1. A page like this one you are reading now is written in a form of a natively discursive narrative. It is identical to that of a printed page: details such as the short size of paragraphs or the highlighting of keywords (see above) are just a matter of style.
2. The notion of a segmented narrative, on the other hand, introduces a new concept in the development of an argument. In this case, the page is construed from a variety of input channels, all blending into a sequential thread similar to that of a standard prose argument, but structured differently. As an example, one may look at A16.117: it consists of segment which produced by different authors at different times, but which are ordered in a linear sequence imitating that of a discursive page, and can effectively be so read (for another example see Buccellati & Kelly-Buccellati 220 Digital Narratives 4.1 )

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Page size and nature of the argument

The high number of pages in the excavation unit books (e. g., A15) is due to the number of constituents listed in the right hand side bar, in particular the ceramic sherds –– since each sherd either has a single page or (in the case of body sherds) shares a page with other sherds of the same ware. It is obviously inconceivable to have a printed book of many thousands of pages, and in this regard the term and concept of a digital “book” must be undedrstood almost as a metaphor.

But it is precisely in this regard that we open another window onto the intellectually daunting aspect of a digital “book” conceived as we do here. The quantity of data is indeed outsized; but, and this is the essential aspect of the question, it is conceptually integrated into a major overriding argument, one that is coherent in itself and is in turn integrated into a number of parallel arguments built on the interplanar model. The challenge is for us to learn to write and to read such websites.

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Totals: discursive pages

The average number of pages hovers around one hundred (for the excavation units, the total refers only to the pages accessed from the left hand side bar). [check all page numbers]

Introductory	CM	dD	4B	UGR
	108	124	?	33	254

Sitewide & Thematic	MZS	MEL	TGR	TCR
	392	630	130	217	1369

A Units	A6	A9	A10	A12	A14	A15	A16	A20
	79	6	98	33	24	101	204	73	548

J units	J1	J2	J3	J4	J5	J6	J7
	151	129	96	68	114	112	93	763

Bibliographical	Critique	Politics	Religion
	157	?	?	157

Total number of pages: 3091 (excluding constituent pages in Unit books)

Complete the chart (check 4B ?)

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Totals: segmented pages

Because of the nature of the pages relating to ceramics (and the same would eventually apply to samples), we give first the total of pages relating to all elements but ceramics, plus the refernts and the incidentals. In second position we give the totals for ceramic elements (excluding the components, i. e., body sherds of the same ware), followed by the overall totals.

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A units

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J units

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Other units

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Backups and versions

The amount of pages is staggering