In 2017, I had an internship at the German Historical Institute in Paris, where my task was to annotate around 1,200 regests. My job was to get them from source data in a Word document to TEI-XML in the end, but the project requirement was to keep everything in Word as long as possible. So, the annotations had to be done using Formatvorlagen (which I believe is called ‘macros’ or ‘stylesheets’ in English). In this post, I want to reflect on what helped me finish the annotation in three weeks (when previous estimates were that it would take about a year). Even if your project is different from this setup, these learnings may help you make your own annotation projects more efficient. Back then, I wrote a tutorial for people in the project who might want to continue my approach after I was gone. It’s in German but you can use LLMs to translate it for you if you’re interested.
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