We designed and implemented a system that assists history scholars in electronically transcribing manuscripts, and also allows them to share completed transcriptions through a centralized server based catalog system, thus helping preserve ancient manuscripts and accelerating the process of historical research. The system uses an XML-based encoding system called the Manuscript Markup Language and adds a visual transcription interface to make the encoding process transparent to the user, thus eliminating the main obstacle for non-technical users.

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Creator

• Kligman, Ricardo Josue

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 02B017M

Advisor

• Selkow, Stanley M.
• Carrera, Fabio

Year

• 2002

Date created

• 2002-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright