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Towards new approaches to editing of old manuscripts and documents

In this chapter, we will show how new technologies can be used as tools for the editing and presenting of old manuscripts and documents. In particular, Croatian medieval literature contains a large number of manuscripts written in Glagolitic, Cyrillic, and Old Latin scripts, but only a small portion of these texts have so far been published and made available to the public. The traditional, standard method of publishing of medieval manuscripts as books may be an expensive and time-consuming procedure. It can therefore be improved by digital infrastructure: publishing of old texts in XML file format online, and marking up of old texts using TEI tags. Besides that, the advantage of digital publication lies in enhanced possibilities. TEI (Text Encoding Initiative–TEI) tags are used to encode features crucial to linguistic, philological, and textological interpretation of texts in order to enable further scientific interpretation of these texts. We present here a Glagolitic medieval text, Zrcalo ago (1445), edited in XML editor Editix. Moreover, we describe the editing procedure, and explain the principles for the use of the TEI markup language. This edition serves as an example for possible future publications of Old Croatian literature, since this practice is still not widely used in Croatian philology. So far, only a small number of literary-historical texts have been critically prepared as electronic documents, and encoded according to TEI standards. The digitization of this medieval text was a pilot project conducted within the Cendari project in the National Library of the Czech Republic (department Manuscriptorium).

Digital humanities, digitization, TEI, Glagolitic script, Zrcalo člověčaskago spasenja

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