TEI - Text Encoding Initiative

Using Manuscripts, Inscriptions as an object for research

How to make pages into usable/re-usable research materials?

Digitization
Conversion to text
Encoding text
Providing text and images together

Digitization

Images of Manuscript
TIF or PNG (for high resolution image quality)
Conversion to text (Getting Text)
Is it handwritten? -- Transcribe (use tools like [From the Page] (https://fromthepage.com/), [Transkribus] (https://readcoop.eu/transkribus/))
Is it typed? -- OCR (Optical Character Recognition) -- OCR for Typescripts --- Online Systems --- Phone Apps --- Commercial Systems ---- ABBYY ---- Omnipage --- OCR for Handwritten (Handwritten Text Recognition) ---- [Amazon Textract] (aws.amazon.com/textract) ---- [Online OCR] (www.onlineocr.net) ---- [Transkribus NN] (www.transkribus.eu/Transkribus) --- Text Processor ---- MS Word (No-structure, proprietary) ---- Notepad++ (for Windows) ---- Bbedit (for Apple) --- [Getting started with Transcription] (https://tinker.edu.au/resources/recipe/getting-started-with-transcription-from-the-page/)
Wny text and page Image together? -- Presenting the original image together with the transcript is a more robust research method. -- allows to verify the transcript, and perhaps improve it -- may reveal other aspects to the document you didn't notice -- make the document available for future research

TEI (Text Encoding Initiative)

TEI is a standard set of XML
XML is a longstanding and widely used technology
XML marks up the structure of a document and not the appearance (unlike HTML)
XML provides a way to validate documents against a defined schema
[TEI Doc] (https://tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/SG.html)