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>

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.

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