LEMDO: Document Type Taxonomy

Document Type Taxonomy

All documents in LEMDO are either born-digital documents or primary documents. Within those two general categories, LEMDO offers additional ways to categorize a file.

Born-digital documents in an edition include: annotations, critical paratexts, bibliographies, the edition landing page, and XML files containing instructions for generating the print output. Born-digital documents in LEMDO-dev include documentation pages, landing pages, databases, and programmatically generated pages. Born-digital files in an anthology include pedagogy pages, landing pages, about pages (i.e., about the project/anthology), history pages (e.g., history of a playing company), and information pages (e.g., copyright, citatation).

Primary documents in an edition include: facsimiles, semi-diplomatic text(s), collations, primary paratexts (commendatory poems, prefatory matter, addresses to the reader, alternate prologues), and modern text(s). LEMDO-dev does not have primary pages. An anthology might have primary documents that are not in an edition, if the anthology chooses to present contextual documents relevant to the entire anthology (e.g., a lease for a playhouse).

Every XML file must have a document type indicated in its


                                       <teiHeader>

. Capture this information via the


                                       <catRef>

element. The value of


                                    @scheme

is "tax:emdDocumentTypes". The value of the


                                    @target

attribute is the relevant category within the Document Type Taxonomy. This example indicates that the file has the document type category "cat:ldtPrimaryText".

¶ Born Digital

@xml:id	Name	Description
ldtBornDigAbout	About	Documents about LEMDO or another anthology.
ldtBornDigAboutPolicy	Policy	Documents about LEMDO policy or the policies of another anthology.
ldtBornDigDocumentation	Documentation	Encoding and editorial guidelines; programming, processing, and rendering instructions; how-to instructions; element descriptions; and records of remediation.
ldtBornDigLanding	Landing	Landing pages.
ldtBornDigInfo	Information	Information pages.
ldtBornDigDatabase	Database	Entity collection files.
ldtBornDigGenerated	Generated	Files created automatically during the build.
ldtBornDigAnthology	Anthology	Anthology files (rooted on a `<teiCorpus>` element).
ldtBornDigEdition	Edition	Root files for textual editions.
ldtBornDigPrint	Print	Root files for print editions.
ldtBornDigParatext	Paratext	Ancillary files that typically form part of an edition, such as acknowledgements.
ldtBornDigParatextCritical	Critical	Critical material, such as a general introduction or a textual introduction.
ldtBornDigParatextBibl	Bibliography	Bibliographies and reference lists.
ldtBornDigParatextCharacters	Characters	Character lists and cast lists. Note that character lists for modernized texts belong in the header of the modernized text, not in a separate file.
ldtBornDigParatextAnnotation	Annotation	Notes, glosses, and other annotations.
ldtBornDigParatextCollation	Apparatus	Collation files.
ldtBornDigParatextHist	History	Documents on historical background.
ldtBornDigParatextPedagogical	Pedagogy	Teaching notes, lesson plans, and other pedagogical material.

¶ Primary

@xml:id	Name	Description
ldtPrimaryText	Primary Source Text	Edited primary source texts. Modernized texts and semi-diplomatic texts must have this value. Not to be used for supplementary texts.
ldtPrimaryFacsimile	Facsimile	Files with `<facsimile>` pointing to digital surrogates.
ldtPrimaryParatext	Primary Paratext	Dedications, addresses, commendatory poems, and other primary source paratexts. Do not use for EMDP. Use lpt values instead.
ldtTest	Test	Test-only document.

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.

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	Document Type Taxonomy
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.