Sören Ohlhus

This paper provides a data structure for the transcription of handwritten texts. The data structure is modelled as an xml markup language which allows to code additional information about the graphical arrangement of a text and thus to avoid the loss of those information in the course of governing corpora of manuscripts with the computer. In particular, the presented markup language focuses on phenomena in learner texts (e.g. revisions and embedded pictures). Furthermore it allows annotating information about the writing process and that accounts for varying authors of an original text.