<MANO>

What is <MANO>?

<MANO> is a digital platform designed to support the scholarly study, structured description, and transcription of manuscripts. Developed for academic research and teaching, <MANO> serves as a workspace where users can interact with sources through structured metadata entry, manuscripts metadata collections and transcription viewer. By combining a user-friendly interface with compliance to TEI P5 manuscript description guidelines, the platform enables the creation of interoperable metadata, encoding of historical and codicological data, and export of information in widely used formats such as TEI-XML and JSON. This ensures both compatibility with other digital humanities initiatives and long-term reusability of the data.

The Metadata Editor facilitates detailed documentation of a manuscript's physical, historical, and codicological features - such as origin, provenance, script, dimensions, and more - while offering download options for further analysis or archival purposes. Once manuscript metadata is finalized, the resulting JSON files can be contributed to the <MANO> GitHub repository. All records automatically become part of the publicly accessible Metadata Collection, where manuscript descriptions contributed by the community can be explored, searched, and filtered. The Transcription Viewer supports TEI XML encoding and provides a visual interface where users can simultaneously view XML code, rendered transcription, and digitized facsimiles for a fully synchronized editing and reading experience. In addition, the Resources section provides learning materials, guidelines, and references for manuscript studies, TEI encoding, and digital editing practices. This combination of structured metadata management, collaborative metadata sharing, transcription tools, and educational resources makes <MANO> a practical tool for teaching manuscript studies, experimenting with digital editing, and engaging in collaborative research. It empowers users not only to study manuscripts but to meaningfully contribute to the creation of digital scholarly resources.