Introduction to Bibliographies and Citations
¶ Rationale
This chapter covers how to format, encode, and cite sources.
LEMDO maintains centralized databases of sources. In general, we will add your sources
to those centralized databases and then you can include them in your edition or anthology using the xml:id that LEMDO assigns to the source. In the linked data environment in which we work,
we generally want to create single entities to which we can all point. The advantage
is that any corrections we make will proliferate across all anthologies. For example,
if a DOI becomes available or a link changes, we will change it in the centralized
database.
LEMDO offers full guidelines for how to format and encode items (entities) for addition
to the various project databases so that the entities can then be cited in documentation,
editions, and anthologies. For the format of bibliography entries and citations thereof, LEMDO uses our own modified version
of the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook (MLA 8), with reference to the 17th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS
17) where MLA 8 is silent.
¶ Prior Reading
You will want to have a general understanding of how our centralized databases work.
See
Introduction to Sitewide Data Files.Note that you are not responsible for adding things to our centralized databases. We will do that work for you and assign an xml:id to each item.
¶ Practice
The things that you might want to cite in an edition go into different LEMDO centralized
databases (or, in one case, into your edition only), depending on what type of source
they are.
Source | LEMDO Destination | Likely Edition Use |
Early publications that bear witness to the work you are editing (i.e., a unique entry in the STC or Wing) | Sitewide bibliography: BIBL1.xml | Witness list in your collation; textual introduction; textual notes |
Copies of early publications | n/a (you will list these in your own
<listWit>
) |
Collation of press variants (optional) |
Primary sources | Sitewide bibliography: BIBL1.xml | General introduction; commentary notes in the annotations |
Secondary sources | Sitewide bibliography: BIBL1.xml | Critical survey; general introduction; commentary, performance, and textual notes in the annotations |
Productions | Sitewide production database: PROD1.xml | Stage history essay; performance notes in the annotations |
Critical editions (as opposed to early publications) | These are temporarily included in BIBL1 but will be moved to the Bibliography of Editions of Early English Drama database (BEEED) (BEED1.xml). | Collation; textual notes |
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.
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.
Rylyn Christensen
Rylyn Christensen is an English major at the University of Victoria.
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.
Glossary
xml:id
“A unique value that we use to tag an entity. Strictly speaking,
@xml:id
is an attribute that can be added to any XML element. We use it as a shorthand for
“value of the xml:id”. Every person, role, glyph, ligature, bibliographical entry,
act, scene, speech, paragraph, page beginning, XML file, division within XML files,
and anchor has a unique xml:id value, some of which are assigned automatically during
the processing of our XML files.”
Metadata
Authority title | Introduction to Bibliographies and Citations |
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. |