For a website theory: digital pages

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The concept 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 courde 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 example for a bibliographical digital book, or in this one for the digital book of an excavation unit.

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.

page as embodiment of website

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Discursive and segmented pages

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 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 some 25,000 pages, and in this regard the term and concept of a digital “book” must be revised.

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 in turn integrated into a number of parallel arguments built on the interplanar model. The challenge is for us to learn to wrote and to read such websites.

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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
						101			= 101

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: 3250 (excluding constituent pages in Unit books)

Complete the chart (check 4B ?)

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Segmented pages

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Backups and versions

The amount of pages is staggesring