The Emancipation Proclamation in Akoma Ntoso

Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation 95 of January 1, 1863, marked up in Akoma Ntoso, the OASIS standard for legal and legislative documents, and styled after the engrossed original, with its seal and signatures.

How it was made

The XML was generated by Claude for Grant Vergottini from the National Archives transcription. The paper, the seal and the signatures of Abraham Lincoln and William H. Seward come from the National Archives scan of the original, and the clerk’s handwriting is approximated with script fonts. Claude didn’t write a word of this text. It marked up the words of the original.

Files

• emancipation-proclamation.xml: the Akoma Ntoso document
• emancipation-proclamation.css: the stylesheet that renders it