Academic Journal
Encoding Medieval Charters in Preparation of a Diplomatic Semantic Web
| Title: | Encoding Medieval Charters in Preparation of a Diplomatic Semantic Web |
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| Authors: | Vujosevic, Zarko, Vogeler, Georg |
| Publisher Information: | Digital Medievalist Association |
| Publication Year: | 2026 |
| Collection: | OpenEdition |
| Subject Terms: | Medieval charters, Diplomatics, Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), Vocabulaire International de la Diplomatique (VID), XML encoding, Diplomatarium Serbicum Digitale (DSD) |
| Description: | This contribution considers the question of encoding concepts of Diplomatics in digital scholarly editions. As a specialised historical discipline, Diplomatics deals with medieval documents, which seem to be a particularly challenging source type for digital presentation using current standards for text encoding. Following the practice of the annotation approach, we try to address this challenge by combining appropriate established systems: using standard TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), enhancing it with concepts from the domain-specific Vocabulaire International de la Diplomatique (VID). Transferring this approach to the digital database Diplomatarium Serbicum Digitale (DSD), it becomes obvious that the VID could be improved via its SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) version. We discuss how simple reorganisation, addition of terms, and only rare changes to existing definitions allow us to use the VID for specialisations of generic TEI elements, and we demonstrate this in an example. Following from this approach, a Semantic Web-based model of charter descriptions can be inserted into TEI encoding. |
| Document Type: | article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: | text/html |
| Language: | unknown |
| ISSN: | 1715-0736 |
| Relation: | info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1715-0736; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13089/165lv; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13089/165lz; https://journals.openedition.org/digitalmedievalist/729 |
| Availability: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13089/165lz https://journals.openedition.org/digitalmedievalist/729 |
| Rights: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.FB420589 |
| Database: | BASE |
| ISSN: | 17150736 |
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