HOSTCol 1.0 : Guide to the Hamburg Older Scandinavian Text Collection

This paper provides a short description of the Hamburg Old Scandinavian Text Collection (HOSTCol), Version 1.0, which can be accessed online via the permanent identifier (PID) http://hdl.handle.net/11022/0000-0007-D0F1-D. The texts in the collection originate from the project Niederdeutsch und Skandinavien at the University of Hamburg. The project was investigated how Low German affected the Scandinavian languages in the Middle Ages. More information about the project and its results can be found in Braunmüller & Diercks (1993), Braunmüller (1995) and Jahr (1998).

Before the editing of the texts in 2018, all the original texts were in an old Word-document-format with limited information about the texts. Most of the texts have been transcribed to a digital format manually, but some seem to have been automatically scanned. The text were originally transcribed with all diacritics and other information, but only some of this information remains in the texts available today. The current xml text collection is the result of reorganizing and editing of the original texts, as well as a conversion to the xml format. All the xml documents are compliant with TEI and Menota guidelines. The current version was prepared as part of a project at Kiel University, which aimed at converting legacy corpus data into sustainable formats and ensuring internal consistency.

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