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Once text has been digitized, it needs to be encoded and annotated for storage and further processing. Of course, this concerns all kinds of text, not just historical text, but due to its special properties (see Section 1.1), historical texts tend to have special requirements. This chapter gives a short overview of two standards that are particularly relevant for the encoding of historical texts: first, Unicode for the encoding of characters, then TEI, an XML application for the annotation of texts with structural information and metadata.
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Piotrowski, M. (2012). Text Encoding and Annotation Schemes. In: Natural Language Processing for Historical Texts. Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-02146-6_5
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