Historical civil registration record transcription using an eXtreme Model Driven approach

Modelling is considered as a universal approach to define and simplify real-world applications through appropriate abstraction. Model-driven system engineering identifies and integrates appropriate concepts, techniques, and tools which provide important artefacts for interdisciplinary activities. In this paper, we show how we used a model-driven approach to design and improve a Digital Humanities dynamic web application within an interdisciplinary project that enables history students and volunteers of history associations to transcribe a large corpus of image-based data from the General Register Office (GRO) records. Our model-driven approach generates the software application from data, workflow and GUI abstract models, ready for deployment.