[Ohiodig] Interleaved Papers

[Noah Stegman Rechtin]

Dear All,

I was wondering what best practices were when it comes to scanning and
uploading interleaved pages. To explain, two examples:

   - A scrapbook where photographs and newspaper clippings have come loose.
   Some may be found adjacent to their original page in the album, but others
   have clearly been reinserted as a commingled group – presumably by a
   previous owner after coming loose.
   - A partially completed booklet of preprinted, non-separable government
   forms, where two single sheets of a related, but different type of
   preprinted government form were found inside the front cover. Their
   location seems to have been deliberate, but it is possible that they may
   have been inadvertently placed there. (A third document was apparently
   originally affixed to the inside of the front cover with staples, but it is
   no longer present.)

A few questions based on the above:

   - Either when scanning or once scanned – presuming that the documents
   are returned to their original order – should the digital files be
   reordered or kept in an order that matches the physical copies?
   - In the second case, when uploading to an online platform (such as the
   Internet Archive) for public viewing, should the single sheets be uploaded
   as separate items, or as found in their original location inside the
   booklet?
      - Uploading them separately may result in some loss of context, but
      uploading them together may cause confusion and break the logical flow of
      the bound booklet. In addition, the somewhat different size of the sheets
      from the pages may be awkward for the viewing software.
   - If the sheets and pages are uploaded as separate items, is a note in
   the description of each item pointing to the other sufficient to preserve
   the connection?
   - If the sheets and pages are uploaded as a single item, should a book
   format (i.e. two pages visible at once with the ability to flip or turn
   pages) still be used, or is a slideshow format (i.e. only a single page
   visible at once with images sliding onto screen from left or right)
   preferred?

I presume the answer to some of these questions has to do with what
relation the loose and bound documents have to each other and whether or
not their arrangement was intentional or accidental.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,
Noah Stegman Rechtin
*Tri-State Warbird Museum <http://tri-statewarbirdmuseum.org/>*
*Collections Manager & Museum Attendant*

*TL;DR:* Is there a sort of original order/respect des fonds principle that
applies to digitized files?
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