Number Speeches
¶ Rationale
Lineation is not stable in a digital edition. Prose wraps dynamically and changes
from one device to another and from one window size to another. LEMDO adds line numbers
only to the final print output generated by our single-source publishing process.
We plan to add the line numbers from the print edition back into the digital edition
as milestone elements (mainly as a courtesy to classroom users, who may be using the
digital edition and the print edition simultaneously).
The smallest organizational and citational unit of a LEMDO digital play edition is
therefore the A.S.Sp. (act, scene and speech; for plays with acts and scenes) or the
S.SP (for plays with scenes only).
¶ Practice
Every speech should already be wrapped in the
<sp>
element. It will also have a
@who
attribute indicating the speaker. To number each speech, give it an
@xml:id
attribute.The value of the
@xml:id
attribute must be carefully constructed to include the values of the parent act and
scene
<div>
elements, plus the sequential number of the speech. The pattern for the value is
emdABBR_M_a1_s1_sp1 where emdABBR_M is the name of the file, _a1 is inherited from
act one, _s1 is inherited from scene 1, and _sp1 is the number of the speech.The first
speech in the scene is always one.In a play with running scenes, the pattern for the value of the
@xml:id
is emdABBR_M_s1_sp1.Our Schematron will prompt you if you skip a number in the sequence. Our Schema will
also catch any repeated values when you validate your file.
Remember that your speech numbers inherit the xml:id of the containing
<div>
. If you are privileging act-scenes, then the xml:id of the first speech in 1.1 will
be (in the case of Timon) "emdTim_M_a1_s1_sp1"
. If you are privileging running scenes, then the xml:id of the first speech in Sc.
1 will be "emdTim_M_s1_sp1"
.¶ Examples
<div type="act" n="1" xml:id="emdMV_M_a1"><!-- Entire act goes here --></div>
<div type="scene" n="1" xml:id="emdMV_M_a1_s1"><!-- Entire scene goes here. --></div>
<sp who="#emdMV_M_Ant" xml:id="emdMV_M_a1_s1_sp1">
<l>In sooth I know not why I am so sad.</l>
<!-- Rest of the speech goes here. -->
</sp>
<l>In sooth I know not why I am so sad.</l>
<!-- Rest of the speech goes here. -->
</sp>
Prosopography
Chloe Mee
Chloe Mee is a research assistant on the LEMDO team who is working as a remediator
on Old Spelling texts. She is about to start her second year at UVic in Fall 2022
and is pursuing an Honours degree in English. Currently, she is working on the LEMDO
team through a VKURA internship. She loves literature and is enjoying the opportunity
to read and encode Shakespeare quartos!
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.
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 | Number Speeches |
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 |
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