Prospects of Digital Edition of Diplomatic Material Illustrated in the Example of the Documents Issued by Kings Stefan Uroš III Dečanski (1321–1331)

Vujošević, Žarko and Nikolić, Pavle (2025) Prospects of Digital Edition of Diplomatic Material Illustrated in the Example of the Documents Issued by Kings Stefan Uroš III Dečanski (1321–1331). Inicijal. Časopis za srednjovekovne studije, 13. pp. 243-266. ISSN 2334-8003

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Abstract

The article presents a prototype of a digital edition of diplomatic material, exemplified through the scarce yet typologically and in terms of textual tradition diverse documentary heritage of King Stefan Uroš III (Dečanski). The methods of encoding metadata and texts of charters and letters in XML format are discussed, and the application of the widely adopted standard Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), supplemented by appropriate concepts from the Vocabulaire international de la diplomatique (VID), is demonstrated. The functions of the XPath and XQuery expression languages as well as the application of the Keyword in Context (KWIC) method are examined and shown through selected examples. The preliminary conclusions regarding the contribution of digital methods in diplomatic research are offered, along with proposals for further work on Serbian documentary sources

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