Rachel Bowker is a 2019 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, having majored in Humanities with an emphasis in Digital and Public Humanities. During her last spring semester, she took an independent study with Dr. Rebecca Nesvet. Below is a reflection of her project of transcribing, editing, and annotating two chapters from the facsimile of The String of Pearls (1850) by James Malcolm Rymer by using XML and TEI coding language.