This paper focusses on the types of questions that are raised in the encoding of historical documents. Using the example of a 17th century Scottish Sasine, the authors show how TEI-based encoding can produce a text which will be of major value to a variety of future historical researchers. Firstly, they show how to produce a machine-readable transcription which would be comprehensible to a word-processor as a text stream filled with print and formatting instructions; to a text analysis package as compilation of named text segments of some known structure; and to a statistical package as a set of observations each of which comprises a number of defined and named variables. Secondly, they make provision for a machine-readable transcription where the encoder's research agenda and assumptions are reversible or alterable by secondary analysts who will have access to a maximum amount of information contained in the original source.
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Greenstein, D., & Burnard, L. (1995). Speaking with One Voice: Encoding Standards and the Prospects for an Integrated Approach to Computing in History. In Text Encoding Initiative (pp. 137–148). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0325-1_11
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