T-PEN is a web-based application that permits users to transcribe unpublished documents that are available from a digital repository. T-PEN autormatically identifies the location of each line in the page image, and this allows the user to transcribe line by line (this line parsing can also be manually adjusted). T-PEN also supports XML encoding as you transcribe and any XML schema (RNG format) can be linked to a project. Transcription projects can be shared with 1 or more other T-PEN users. Transcriptions can also be exported as text/xml, RTF and PDF (with transormation options available). By the end of its development in 2012, T-PEN will also permit RDF export using the Open Annotation Collaboration framework. While the bulk of manuscripts currently available are pre-modern, T-PEN is designed to work with any digitized document and can support transcriptions in any language in the UTF-8 family.

Contact James Ginther ([email protected]) for suggestions of new repositories to add to T-PEN's manifest. Further details of the project can be found at digital-editor.blogspot.com