New specialist tools for medieval document XML markup

ABSTRACT

The digitalization of historical text documents as a basis of data mining and information retrieval for the purpose of progress in the history sciences is urgently needed. We present a novel, specialist XML tool-suite supporting the working historian in the transcription of original medieval charters into a machine-readable form.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.1 Content Analysis and Indexing
          Subjects: Indexing methods

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.7 Digital Libraries
          Subjects: Standards

  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.7 DOCUMENT AND TEXT PROCESSING
      I.7.1 Document and Text Editing
          Subjects: Document management
      I.7.2 Document Preparation
          Subjects: Standards; Markup languages; Format and notation

  J. Computer Applications
  J.5 ARTS AND HUMANITIES

General Terms:
Design, Documentation, Human Factors, Languages, Standardization

Keywords:
XML tagging, digitalization and preparation of medieval documents for the semantic web, history informatics, tool-support