XML to visual taggs migration : proposed methodologies for the research of digitized Croatian medieval Glagolitic material

Manuscripts are often fundamental sources for researchers in many disciplines, and nowadays this research is enhanced by new tools brought up by information technology. In this article, different methodologies of manuscript research in digital environment based on annotation are described. In the first part of the article, the annotation itself and the XML (eXtensible Markup Language) are explained. In the second part, different types of annotation methodologies are proposed for two types of researches, TEI and TEIMark that serve for encoding of transcribed versions of manuscripts and are proposed for researches based on a text, and DocMark that serves for encoding and analysing of digitised versions of manuscripts and is proposed for researches based on a text together with its physical context. Additionally, History Integrator software which places manuscripts into the time and space framework, with additional multimedia information is described.