Enabling the Encoding of Manuscripts within the DTABf: Extension and Modularization of the Format

• Published in: Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative Vol. 10; no. Issue 10
• Main Authors: Haaf, Susanne, Thomas, Christian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: TEI Consortium 09.09.2017; Text Encoding Initiative Consortium
• Subjects: annotation of manuscripts; interchange; interoperability; standardization; TEI corpora; TEI customization; TEI corpora; TEI customization; standardization; chaining ODDs; interoperability; annotation of manuscripts; interchange

This paper presents work in progress on the DTA “Base Format” for Manuscripts (DTABf-M), an extension to the DTA “Base Format” (DTABf) for the TEI-conformant annotation of manuscripts. The DTABf is a TEI-subset for the consistent, yet unambiguous, annotation of large amounts of historical text. Duri...