TEI Specifications for a Sustainable Management of Digitized Holocaust Testimonies

Sarah Bénière, Floriane Chiffoleau, Laurent Romary


Abstract
Data modeling and standardization are central issues in the field of Digital Humanities, and all the more so when dealing with Holocaust testimonies, where stable preservation and long-term accessibility are key. The EHRI Online Editions are composed of documents of diverse nature (testimonies, letters, diplomatic reports, etc.), held by EHRI’s partnering institutions, and selected, gathered thematically and encoded according to the TEI Guidelines by the editors within the EHRI Consortium. Standardization is essential in order to make sure that the editions are consistent with one another. The issue of consistency also encourages a broader reflection on the usage of standards when processing data, and on the standardization of digital scholarly editions of textual documents in general. In this paper, we present the normalization work we carried out on the EHRI Online Editions. It includes a customization of the TEI adapted to Holocaust-related documents, and a focus on the implementation of controlled vocabulary. We recommend the use of these encoding specifications as a tool for researchers and/or non-TEI experts to ensure their encoding is valid and consistent across editions, but also as a mechanism for integrating the edition work smoothly within a wider workflow leading from image digitization to publication.
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2024.htres-1.2
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources (HTRes) @ LREC-COLING 2024
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May
Year:
2024
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Torino, Italia
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Isuri Anuradha, Martin Wynne, Francesca Frontini, Alistair Plum
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htres | WS
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ELRA and ICCL
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10–17
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.htres-1.2
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Sarah Bénière, Floriane Chiffoleau, and Laurent Romary. 2024. TEI Specifications for a Sustainable Management of Digitized Holocaust Testimonies. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources (HTRes) @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 10–17, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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TEI Specifications for a Sustainable Management of Digitized Holocaust Testimonies (Bénière et al., htres-WS 2024)
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.htres-1.2.pdf