Liturgy, Drama, and the Archive: Three conversions from legacy formats to TEI XML

• Main Author: James Cummings
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Open Library of Humanities 2006-05-01
• Series: Digital Medievalist
• Subjects: Medieval Liturgy; Records of Early English Drama; Oxford Text Archive; OTA; Electronic Preservation; Text Encoding Initiative; TEI; XML; CURSUS; REED
• Online Access: https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/articles/11

This article reports on three case studies of research projects looking at the conversion of legacy resources. The first of these, the CURSUS Project (http://www.cursus.uea.ac.uk), has created electronic editions of medieval Benedictine liturgical service books. The second was some personal research into proof-of-concept conversion of printed volumes of the Records of Early English Drama project (http://www.reed.utoronto.ca). The final case formed part of a pilot project studying the problems and possibilities of converting legacy electronic resources archived by the Oxford Text Archive (http://www.ota.ox.ac.uk/). While each of these projects was converting from a different form of media—manuscript, print and electronic—they benefitted from many of the same techniques and overcame many of the same hurdles.