A. Ivanovs & A. Varfolomeyev
The paper deals with the problem of application of computer technologies for editing vast complexes of medieval historical records in order to prepare qualitative printed and, at the same time, electronic documentary publications. A printed edition should meet the requirements of modern archaeography; an electronic one should provide a researcher, besides an adequate screen display of documents, with tools for analysing, interpreting, and searching for historical source information. Since XML technologies give an opportunity to create full-text databases as well as to make appropriate XSLT-queries using a certain mark-up language, these technologies can be successfully used for preparing electronic and printed versions of documentary editions.
The paper presents the results of the case study of the applicability of XML technologies to editing and analysing a medieval documentary complex “Moscowitica – Ruthenica”. Formerly, this collection of documents (the late 12th – the early 18th centuries) was a department of the Historical Archives of Riga (Latvia); at present the documents of this complex are included into different record groups of the Latvian State Historical Archives, nevertheless they constitute the natural complex of historical sources, which should be published and studied as the whole.
In the paper the attention is focused on the mark-up of document texts based upon TEI system, as well as on the realization of standard queries and construction of search interfaces for users.
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