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Conclusions

Prose Manuscript Descriptions

1. Convenient for curators who wish to digitize existing manuscript descriptions (primarily a change of medium)
2. Easy to read
3. “Access points” support richer queries than full text, but little analysis
4. Make little use of the analytic potential of electronic text technology

Structured Manuscript Descriptions

1. Useful for philologists who study manuscripts
2. Support complex quantitative codicological analysis
3. Support queries and analysis across collections (union catalog)