(Faculty
of Mathematics and Computer Science, Sofia)
XEditMan: A
XML EDITOR FOR MANUSCRIPT DESCRIPTIONS
AND
ITS IMPLEMENTATION FOR CATALOGING
OF
BULGARIAN MANUSCRIPTS
Abstract. We present the specialized
editor XEditMan (XML Editor for
Manuscript Data) which is an XML-oriented tool for editing and browsing
catalogue descriptions of mediaeval manuscripts. It offers a friendly interface
for entering data on mediaeval manuscripts; visualisation and queries to the
descriptions already available. The descriptions are compatible with the
document type definition (DTD) structure suggested by the project MASTER
(Manuscript Access through Standards for Electronic Records) and adopted by the
Text Encoding Initiative. During the data entry the elements which are filled in
appear in a sequence which is adopted in the manuscript cataloguing practice.
The interface is in Bulgarian and this facilitates preparing electronic
descriptions by people who are not acquainted in detail with the DTD structure.
The tool can be used also for visualization of single descriptions in two modes:
complete descriptions or user-selected group of elements. Comparative study of
multiple descriptions is achieved through database queries. Currently, 300
descriptions are available. By December 2004 a collection of 800 descriptions on
Mediaeval Bulgarain manuscripts stored in Bulgaria will be prepared