| HD-51224-11 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | Wheaton College | Encoding Financial Records for Historical Research | 3/1/2011 - 12/31/2011 | $25,000.00 | Kathryn | M. | Tomasek | | | | Wheaton College | Norton | MA | 02766-2322 | USA | 2011 | U.S. History | Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | Digital Humanities | 25000 | 0 | 25000 | 0 | A meeting of historians of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America, archivists, and technical experts to discuss the development of a module for financial records for the Text Encoding Initiative to allow for additional mark-up and analysis of those records found in manuscript collections.
The standard guidelines for scholarly markup of digitized sources, those of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), do not provide adequate models for representing the semantic value of financial records. Nevertheless, various digitization projects have used TEI-compliant XML to encode manuscript collections that include financial documentation. And now a handful of projects have begun to use TEI as they turn attention to financial records per se, revealing a need for extended markup guidelines to increase the accessibility of these resources. We will organize a meeting of historians, archivists, and technologists as a first step toward developing standards for markup of transcribed text and the application of metadata that will allow for searching across collections of manuscript financial records. Ultimately, the process begun with this meeting will lead to an extension of current TEI guidelines to include a module on financial records. |