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CATMuS, common rules for the transcription of documents from the middle ages to today

This website presents the standards collectively established by the CATMuS community (standing for Consistent Approaches to Transcribing ManuScripts). It lists a series of recommendations concerning the transcription of medieval and modern documents. It does not cover practices for earlier phases (such as the segmentation into zones or lines¹) or later phases (like text normalization, development of abbreviations², etc).

Site structure

This site is organized into two main sections:

1. A section which consists in guidelines documenting the CATMuS transcription practices, here.

2. A section organized around a character table and describing the main characters used in CATMuS-compliant transcriptions. A search function allows you to perform queries on the guidelines.

CATMuS members

Members of the CATMuS community are: Ariane Pinche, Thibault Clérice, Alix Chagué, Jean-Baptiste Camps, Malamatenia Vlachou-Efstathiou, Matthias Gille Levenson, Olivier Brisville-Fertin, Federico Boschetti, Franz Fischer, Michael Gervers, Agnès Boutreux, Avery Manton, Simon Gabay, Wouter Haverals, Mike Kestemont, Caroline Vandyck and Patricia O'Connor.

Cite CATMuS

Ariane Pinche, Thibault Clérice, Alix Chagué, Jean-Baptiste Camps, Malamatenia Vlachou- Efstathiou, et al., CATMuS-Medieval: Consistent Approaches to Transcribing ManuScripts: A generalized set of guidelines and models for Latin scripts from Middle Ages (8th–16th century). 2023. hal-04346939