...work in its entirety in order to perform database queries of main characters. As Andersen points out, this is hardly an appropriate or efficient scholarly use of computing technology.
‑PEN is a web-based tool for working with images of manuscripts. Users attach transcription data (new or uploaded) to the actual lines of the original manuscript in a simple, flexible interface.
This paper explores how modern technologies like cloud-services and mobile
devices can improve existing transcription methods. After a brief exploration of
existing projects in the field of access, organisation, transcription and analysis of
digital representations of cultural heritage, this paper introduces a new approach,
unlike XML technology, to TEI data storage and organisation
All the technai of Digital Humanities — data mining, XML encoding, text analysis, GIS, Web design, visualization, programming, tool design, database design, etc — involve building.
A. Di Iorio, S. Peroni, and F. Vitali. Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Knowledge engineering and management by the masses, page 391--400. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, (2010)