LEMDO: Prosopography (PROS1)

Prosopography (PROS1)

¶ Introduction

The Prosopography is a sitewide database file in the data directory of the Subversion repository. It contains the xml:ids of historical people. Since many people occasionally edit PROS1.xml, make sure no one else is working in the file before you make any changes. If you are in HCMC, talk to the other LEMDO team members. If you are not in the lab, send an email to all repository users with the subject Working in PROS1. When you have finished, validated, and committed your work, send out another email with the subject Finished working in PROS1.

If you are unable to add an entry to PROS1.xml when you need to, you can link instead to the placeholder entry PRRR1, and then come back to it later. When linking to the placeholder, make sure you include an XML comment with full details of what needs to be done. For more information on placeholder entries, see Placeholder Entities.

¶ Structure

PROS1.xml is structured as follows:

¶ Create a PROS1 entry

Here is an example of a PROS1 entry:

<person xml:id="SHAK1">
  <persName>
    <reg>William Shakespeare</reg>
    <forename>William</forename>
    <surname>Shakespeare</surname>
  </persName>
</person>

We will break down this entry below.

¶ Encode the Root Element

The


                                             <person>

element is the root of every Prosopography entry. It requires a unique xml:id so that references in other documents to people may be tagged with that unique xml:id and links be made to the information in the Prosopography file. The value of the


                                          @xml:id

should be comprised of a unique four digit and one letter identifier. Search the A–Z Index on the lemdo-dev site using Ctrl + F the A–Z Index text file on the lemdo-dev site (available from the Resources menu) to find the next unused ID.

<person xml:id="SHAK1"/>

Nested within the


                                             <person>

element should be the


                                             <persName>

element. The following section describes how to encode this element.

¶ Encode Names

Nest a


                                             <persName>

element inside the


                                             <person>

element. We use the


                                             <persName>

element to tag the various names (forename, surname, etc.) associated with a person. Nest a


                                             <name>

element within the


                                             <persName>

element. There are four name elements that you can use when encoding a person’s name:


                                             <reg>


                                             <forename>


                                             <surname>

, and


                                             <addName>

<person>
  <persName>
    <reg/>
    <forename/>
    <surname/>
    <addName/>
  </persName>
</person>

Use the


                                             <reg>

element to tag a regularized version of the person’s name. In most instances, the regularized version will be the person’s forename followed by their surname. Do not include titles in a personʼs


                                             <reg>

name (e.g., Mr.):

<persName>
<reg>William Shakespeare</reg>
</persName>

Use the


                                             <forename>

element to tag a person’s forename or given name. Sometimes, a person will have more than one forename (i.e., they will have a middle name or middle names). We tag every such name separately using the


                                             <forename>

element:

<persName>
<reg>William Shakespeare</reg>
<forename>William</forename>
</persName>

Use the


                                             <surname>

element to tag a person’s surname or family name. Sometimes, a person will have more than one surname (e.g., they got married and changed their surname). We tag every such name separately using the


                                             <surname>

element:

<persName>
  <reg>William Shakespeare</reg>
  <forename>William</forename>
  <surname>Shakespeare</surname>
</persName>

Use the


                                             <addName>

element to tag any aliases, nicknames, or epithets associated with a person’s name. The


                                             <addName>

element is not used for variant spellings of a person’s name or location-based indicators (e.g., of Norwich or of France):

<persName>
  <reg>Alfred the Great</reg>
  <forename>Alfred</forename>
  <addName>the Great</addName>
</persName>

¶ Link to a PROS1 Entry

For instructions on how to link to Prosopography entries within a document, see our instructions on encoding entities.

Prosopography

Isabella Seales

Isabella Seales is a fourth year undergraduate completing her Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Victoria. She has a special interest in Renaissance and Metaphysical Literature. She is assisting Dr. Jenstad with the MoEML Mayoral Shows anthology as part of the Undergraduate Student Research Award program.

Janelle Jenstad

Janelle Jenstad is a Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and Director of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Elizabethan Theatre, Early Modern Literary Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, Renaissance and Reformation, and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She contributed chapters to Approaches to Teaching Othello (MLA); Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives (MLA); Institutional Culture in Early Modern England (Brill); Shakespeare, Language, and the Stage (Arden); Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate); New Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge); and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge). For more details, see janellejenstad.com.

Joey Takeda

Joey Takeda is LEMDO’s Consulting Programmer and Designer, a role he assumed in 2020 after three years as the Lead Developer on LEMDO.

Kate LeBere

Project Manager, 2020–2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019–2020. Textual Remediator and Encoder, 2019–2021. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English at the University of Victoria in 2020. During her degree she published papers in The Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet during the Russian Cultural Revolution. She is currently a student at the University of British Columbia’s iSchool, working on her masters in library and information science.

Martin Holmes

Martin Holmes has worked as a developer in the UVicʼs Humanities Computing and Media Centre for over two decades, and has been involved with dozens of Digital Humanities projects. He has served on the TEI Technical Council and as Managing Editor of the Journal of the TEI. He took over from Joey Takeda as lead developer on LEMDO in 2020. He is a collaborator on the SSHRC Partnership Grant led by Janelle Jenstad.

Navarra Houldin

Project manager 2022–present. Textual remediator 2021–present. Navarra Houldin (they/them) completed their BA in History and Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. During their degree, they worked as a teaching assistant with the University of Victoriaʼs Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies. Their primary research was on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America.

Tracey El Hajj

Junior Programmer 2019–2020. Research Associate 2020–2021. Tracey received her PhD from the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the algorhythmics of networked communications. She was a 2019–2020 President’s Fellow in Research-Enriched Teaching at UVic, where she taught an advanced course on Artificial Intelligence and Everyday Life. Tracey was also a member of the Map of Early Modern London team, between 2018 and 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, she was a fellow in residence at the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, where she investigated the relationships between artificial intelligence, creativity, health, and justice. As of July 2021, Tracey has moved into the alt-ac world for a term position, while also teaching in the English Department at the University of Victoria.

Orgography

LEMDO Team (LEMD1)

The LEMDO Team is based at the University of Victoria and normally comprises the project director, the lead developer, project manager, junior developers(s), remediators, encoders, and remediating editors.

Metadata

Authority title	Prosopography (PROS1)
Type of text	Documentation
Short title
Publisher	University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform
Series	Linked Early Modern Drama Online
Source	TEI Customization created by Martin Holmes, Joey Takeda, and Janelle Jenstad; documentation written by members of the LEMDO Team
Editorial declaration	n/a
Edition	Released with Linked Early Modern Drama Online 1.0
Encoding description	Encoded in TEI P5 according to the LEMDO Customization and Encoding Guidelines
Document status	prgGenerated
Funder(s)	Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
License/availability	This file is licensed under a CC BY-NC_ND 4.0 license, which means that it is freely downloadable without permission under the following conditions: (1) credit must be given to the author and LEMDO in any subsequent use of the files and/or data; (2) the content cannot be adapted or repurposed (except in quotations for the purposes of academic review and citation); and (3) commercial uses are not permitted without the knowledge and consent of the editor and LEMDO. This license allows for pedagogical use of the documentation in the classroom.