AI Transcribes, Scholars Structure: From Transkribus to TEI – A Field Report

HTR gets the text on the page — but turning it into a digital scholarly edition takes much more. Using the Forschungsportal BACH as a live example, this talk walks through the full post-transcription workflow: custom semantic tagging in Transkribus, XSLT conversion to TEI-XML, and the human expertise required at every step. A clear-eyed field report on where AI ends and scholarship begins.