Encode Titles
¶ Rationale
TEI allows the
<title>
element to appear in both the
<teiHeader>
(the metadata) and the
<text>
which might seem redundant, but actually allows you to make a helpful distinction
between the title of your XML file and the title of the text that you want to give
to the text captured in the XML file.For primary texts, LEMDO aims to standardize filenaming practice while still allowing
some editorial flexibility in play titles.
For born-digital texts, the title in the
<titleStmt>
is the title that will show up on the webpage.Note that the title of the XML file, captured in the
<titleStmt>
section of the metadata, is distinct from the filename,which is generally truncated and must exactly match the xml:id of the file.
¶ Practice
LEMDO uses the
<title>
element in several ways. Many types of files have titles:
born-digital documents captured in XML files
transcriptions of primary texts captured in XML files, which themselves have title
pages (in the
<front>
element) and embedded titles:
titles on titlepages of primary texts transcribed and captured in XML files
titles on the first page of primary texts transcribed and captured in XML files
modernized primary texts, captured in XML files
edition pages, which aim to give a title to the entire edition (think of edition pages
as a hybrid of the title page of a printed book and the table of contents)
anthologies, which aim to give a title to the entire anthology
You will find more information about titles for the various components of your edition
in the relevant chapter for each component.
¶ Overview
Title Type | Title Location | Parent Element | Element | Attribute | Values | Example | Documentation |
Born Digital | TEI Header |
<titleStmt>
|
<title>
|
@type
|
"main"
|
Textual Introduction | |
Titles of Transcriptions | TEI Header |
<titleStmt>
|
<title>
|
@type
|
"main"
|
Northward Ho, Quarto 1 | |
Titles on Title Pages (semi-diplomatic transcription) | front (inside the child
<titlePage>
) |
<docTitle>
|
<titlePart>
|
@type
|
"main"
|
NORTH-VVARD HOE | |
Titles on Title Pages (M)1 | front (inside
<titlePage>
) |
<docTitle>
|
<titlePart>
|
@type
|
"main"
|
Northward Ho | |
Titles on First Page of Play (semi-diplomatic transcription) | body | n/a |
<label>
|
type | heading | North-ward Hoe. | |
Titles of Files containing Modernized Primary Texts | TEI Header |
<titleStmt>
|
<title>
|
@type
|
"main"
|
Northward Ho, Q1 Modern (or Northward Ho, Modern) | |
Titles of Modernized Primary Texts |
<front>
|
<titleStmt>
|
<title>
|
@type
|
"main"
|
Northward Ho! | |
Titles of Editions | TEI Header of edition page |
<titleStmt>
|
<title>
|
@type
|
@main
|
Northward Ho! A Digital Critical Edition | |
Titles of Anthologies (anth.xml page)2 | Both TEI Headers3 |
<titleStmt>
|
<title>
|
n/a | n/a | Digital Renaissance Editions |
Notes
1.Most anthologies do not require modernized title pages. Check with your anthology
lead.↑
2.E.g., dre.xml, nise.xml, moms.xml↑
Prosopography
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.
Nicole Vatcher
Technical Documentation Writer, 2020–2022. Nicole Vatcher completed her BA (Hons.)
in English at the University of Victoria in 2021. Her primary research focus was womenʼs
writing in the modernist period.
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 | Encode Titles |
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. |