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
3.These files are rooted on <teiCorpus> and have two <teiHeader> elements.

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.

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