How Controlled Vocabularies Help Transcribing Handwritten Ottoman Sources

Annika Jung The research project on Late Ottoman Palestinians (LOOP) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum has been attempting to digitize and analyze the data found in a large corpus of census registers previously archived and made accessible as high-definition image files by the Israeli State Archive (ISA). To do so, we have been using a database built with the “Nodegoat” web-based data management environment. ((Nodegoat has been conceptualized and developed since 2011 by Pim van Bree and Geert Kesse...