Rapid Ingestion of Narrative Parish Records: Field Modeling, TEI Encoding, and Database Mapping

Narrative parish registers don't fit neatly into tables — but demographic databases need structured data. Drawing on a large corpus of 18th–19th-century Transylvanian records, this presentation walks through a complete pipeline from Transkribus Field Model to TEI encoding to database-ready output, offering a transferable workflow for anyone working with flowing historical text that needs to become searchable, structured data.