LEMDO: Encode Pointer Links

Encode Pointer Links

¶ Prior Reading

Introduction to Linking Mechanisms

Choose Linking Mechanisms

Hash Character

¶ Principles of Encoding Pointer Links

Using the


                                             <ptr>

element will create programatically generated citations.

We only use the


                                             <ptr>

element to link to


                                             <div>

elements when they have a child


                                             <head>

element and to the text in modern and semi-diplomatic files.

We use the


                                          @type

attribute with a value of "localCit" when linking to the text in modern and semi-diplomatic files in order to trigger the processing to generate canonical reference numbers for citations.

¶ Practice: Encode the Pointer Element

You will generally follow the same steps when encoding all of your


                                          <ptr>

elements. The exception to this is when you encode


                                          <ptr>

elements linking to the text of your modern or semi-diplomatic files; these links require an extra step. See Special Case: Linking to Canonical References. Follow these steps to encode


                                          <ptr>

links:

Add a


                                                <ptr>

element to your text. This will become hyperlinked text in the digital output of your edition and a citation in the print output of your edition.

Add a


                                             @target

attribute to your


                                                <ptr>

element.

Add the pathway to the entity that you are linking to as the value of the


                                             @target

attribute. See Hash Character for information on creating pathways.

¶ Special Case: Linking to Canonical References

There is one additional step that you will take when encoding


                                          <ptr>

elements that link to acts, scenes, speeches, or anchors in your modern and semi-diplomatic texts. We add the


                                       @type

attribute with a value of "localCit" on


                                          <ptr>

elements in these scenarios. This triggers our processor to generate a canonical reference as the hyperlinked text in the digital output and as the citation in the print output of your edition.

Follow these steps when linking to your modern or semi-diplomatic text using the


                                          <ptr>

element:

Add a


                                                <ptr>

element to your text.

Add a


                                             @type

attribute with a value of "localCit" to your


                                                <ptr>

element.

Add a


                                             @target

attribute with a pathway to the act, scene, speech, or anchor that you are linking to as the value. See Hash Character for information on creating pathways.

¶ Special Case: Linking to a Span of Text

There are a few scenarios in which you will link to a span of text by pointing to two entities. Generally, you can simply point to one entity that contains the span of text (i.e., the act, scene, or speech) or point to the anchor at the beginning of the span of text that you are pointing to—this will create a canonical reference citation using the numbers for the act, scene, and speech that your anchor is in and, in the digital edition, will link to the start of the span of text that you are pointing to. However, if the section of text that you wish to point to spans more than a single speech, you will put two values seperated by a space as the value of the


                                       @target

attribute on your


                                          <ptr>

element. Note that you will only do this when pointing to your modern or semi-diplomatic text.

Follow these steps:

Add a


                                                <ptr>

element to your text.

Add a


                                             @type

attribute with a value of "localCit" to your


                                                <ptr>

element.

Add a


                                             @target

attribute to your


                                                <ptr>

element.

Add a pathway to the first entity that you wish to link to (i.e., the first speech that you are linking to or the anchor at the beginning of your span of text) as the value of your


                                             @target

attribute.

Add a space after the first pathway, then add a second pathway to the second entity that you are linking to (i.e., the final speech that you are linking to or the anchor at the end of your span of text).

¶ Examples

This pointer links to a


                                          <div>

element with a child


                                          <head>

element that is in the same file as the


                                          <ptr>

element:

In this case, the pointer links from somewhere in the General Introduction to Laurie Ellinghausenʼs edition of Device of the Pageant to the


                                          <div>

element with an xml:id of "emdDEVI3_genIntro_crit".

This pointer links to an entire file:

In this case, the pointer links to the Critical Introduction to Kirk Melnikoffʼs edition of Selimus, which has the xml:id of "emdSel_critIntro".

This pointer links to a canonical reference:

In this case, the pointer links to Speech 1 in Scene 5 of Eleanor Loweʼs edition of An Humorous Dayʼs Mirth. This pointer would render as Sc5 Sp1 and would bring people to the start of that speech if they clicked the link.

This pointer links to a canonical reference using an anchor:

In this case, the pointer links to the


                                          <anchor>

element with an xml:id of "emdTim_M_anc_9" in the modern text of Joost Daalderʼs edition of The Honest Whore, Part 1. This anchor is in Act 1, Scene 1, Speech 3, so it would render with the canonical reference A1 Sc1 Sp3. It would bring people to the exact spot where the anchor is if they clicked the link.

This pointer links to a span of speeches:

In this case, the pointer links to Speeches 22–23 in James Mardockʼs modern edition of Henry V, Folio.

This pointer links to a span of text using anchors:

In this case, the pointer links to a span of text marked at the beginning by an anchor that is partway through Act 1, Scene 1, Speech 3 and marked at the end by an anchor that is partway through Act 1, Scene 1, Speech 4 of Jessica Slightʼs edition of Othello.

¶ Further Reading

Integrate Pointers into Your Prose

Encode Reference Links

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.

Mahayla Galliford

Research assistant, remediator, encoder, 2021–present. Mahayla Galliford is a fourth-year student in the English Honours and Humanities Scholars programs at the University of Victoria. She researches early modern drama and her Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award project focused on approaches to encoding early modern stage directions.

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.

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.

Metadata

Authority title	Encode Pointer Links
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
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Edition	Released with Linked Early Modern Drama Online 1.0
Encoding description	Encoded in TEI P5 according to the LEMDO Customization and Encoding Guidelines
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Funder(s)	Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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