Editors’ Summary: This article highlights the process of turning the Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes, c.800–c.1800 into a TEI dataset. The authors demonstrate how the process of encoding the print manuscript, and of converting any print volume to a TEI dataset, involves close reading of the material. The Repertory, originally published in 2022, is a recent work that contains descriptions of 3,300 Welsh manuscripts and “handed the world the keys to unlock the great riches of a thousand years of Welsh manuscript culture.” They note some of the difficulties they encountered when converting the volume, including data appearing in different formats throughout the work and assigning unique identifiers to each entity in the dataset. The authors conclude with a discussion of the possibilities of this work without institutional or financial barriers.
Editors’ Choice: Decoding and Encoding Welsh Manuscript Culture: Scribes, Scripts and TEI
