Abstract

This paper presents the Register of Early Modern Slovenian Manuscripts, which includes manuscripts from the 17th and 18th centuries that have been overlooked by scholars focused on printed books from the same era. The Register attempts to address this gap in Slovenian manuscript studies by describing these unknown and forgotten early modern manuscripts with facsimiles, an index of basic manuscript citations, and a bibliography containing publications where these manuscripts are mentioned. It is encoded in TEI P5 using the manuscript description module and available via a web interface. The paper discusses the specifics of early modern manuscripts, explains the structure and encoding of the Register (especially encoding of temporal and geographic data), and presents the portal built using the Fedora Commons repository software that allows the user to browse and search manuscripts and export data in TEI format, and that enables metadata harvesting.

Highlights

  • 10 The Register plays a dual role

  • To record our own research and descriptions and to enable further analysis and presentation of these manuscripts, we developed a digital repository, the Register of Early Modern Slovenian Manuscripts, where the materials are available for searching, reading, and downloading1 and all are uniformly encoded in TEI P5, for the most part using the TEI module for manuscript description

  • Disseminators are used to create HTML presentations of individual manuscript descriptions, biographical items, relationships, and collections using data streams from the underlying objects; even the facsimile browser is implemented as an XSLT transformation of a TEI element

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A Register of Early Modern Slovenian Manuscripts

Electronic reference Matija Ogrin, Jan Jona Javoršek and Tomaž Erjavec, « A Register of Early Modern Slovenian Manuscripts », Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative [Online], Issue 4 | March 2013, Online since 08 March 2013, connection on 08 May 2019. This text was automatically generated on 8 May 2019. TEI Consortium 2013 (Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License). We wish to thank the numerous monasteries, archives, libraries, and individuals, especially † Fr. Felicijan Pevec OFM, for making accessible the manuscripts in their keeping.

The Encoding of the Register
Repository and Query System
Dublin Core Metadata
Search Interfaces
Putting It All Together
Temporal and Geographical Data
Conclusions
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