Prefix Definitions Taxonomy
LEMDO uses prefixes as a kind of shorthand across the project so that you do not have
to type full pathways and URLs when you want to point to something inside or outside
the project using a
<ref>
element. When we build an HTML page from your XML, we replace the prefix with the
part of the URL that comes become the forward slash. So mol becomes “https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/”. Prefixes are always followed by a colon and
then the unique identifier for the resource within the project to which we wish to
point.You will want to use this page in conjunction with
Encode Reference Links.
A prefix is an abbreviation for the predictable part of a Uniform Resource Indicator
(URI). A prefix allows us to point easily to unique resources (URIs) within a digital
project (e.g., documents, entities, entries, sections of documents) without having
to repeat the predictable part of the URI. For example, the Map of Early Modern London’s (MoEML’s) URIs all begin with
https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/.We often point to MoEML resources from LEMDO editions. The full URI of those resources would clutter up our encoding. Instead, we use the prefix mol. The processing instructions in the LEMDO taxonomy turn mol into
https://mapoflondon.uvic.cawhen LEMDO’s static HTML pages are built from the underlying encoding. We use prefixes to point to heavily used resources in our own project, such as the Personography and Bibliography, as well as to a few stable resources outside our project. As long as a project has predictable URIs that are constructed of a stable path plus a unique ID, we can use prefixes and the unique ID to point directly to that resource. Our encoding is thus efficient and consistent:
"doc:lemdo_about" yields a link to https://lemdo.uvic.ca/lemdo_about.html;
"mol:CHEA2" yields a link to https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/CHEA2.htm.This method of pointing is compatible with Linked Open Data applications and will help LEMDO connect its data to other datasets in the future.
| Prefix | Match pattern | Replacement pattern | Description |
| anth | (.+) | $1.xml | anth allows us to point to an anthology document in LEMDOʼs XML collection. |
| aud | (.+) | TAXO1.xml#$1 | aud allows us to point to a defined taxonomy of audiences in LEMDO. |
| beed | (.+) | BEED1.xml#$1 | beed is used for witness and citation references to entries in the Bibliography of Editions of Early English Drama (BEEED). |
| bibl | (.+) | BIBL1.xml#$1 | bibl is used for bibliographic citations or witness references. |
| bin | binaries/$1.pdf | bin points to a binary file such as a PDF in the binaries folder in the eventual output site. The file could be in any subfolder of the data/binaries folder at encoding time. As of decision 2023-01, only PDFs with a lower-case extension are allowed. | |
| cat | (.+) | TAXO1.xml#$1 | cat denotes a pointer to a category in one of LEMDOʼs taxonomies. |
| deep | (.+) | http://deep.sas.upenn.edu/viewrecord.php?deep_id=$1 | deep points to a record in the Database of Early English Playbooks (DEEP). |
| doc | ([\w\._-]+)(#.+)? | $1.xml$2 |
doc points to a LEMDO document by its xml:id or to a structural element with an xml:id
within a LEMDO document (e.g., a
<div>
element, a speech, or paragraph). |
| ebba | (.+) | https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/$1/citation | ebba points to a citation record in the Early English Ballads Archive (EBBA). |
| edt | (.+) | TAXO1.xml#$1 | edt allows us to point to a defined taxonomy of document types in LEMDO. |
| estc | (.+) | http://estc.bl.uk/$1 | estc points to the URI for a single entry in the English Short Title Catalogue. |
| facs | ^([^\|]+)\|(\d+)$ | facs_$1.xml#facs_$1_$2 | The facs prefix points to a surface element in a facsimile file. |
| g | (.+) | TAXO1.xml#g_$1 | g denotes a glyph or other special character defined in the taxonomies document. |
| gb | (.+) | https://books.google.ca/books?id=$1 | gb points to the unique URL for a single item in Google Books. |
| gloss | (.+) | GLOSS1.xml#$1 | gloss allows us to link a term element to LEMDO’s centralized glossary. |
| hand | (.+) | HAND1.xml#$1 |
hand allows us to point to a single
<handNote>
in LEMDO’s centralized handNotes document.. |
| img | (.+) | images/$1 | img points to an image in the images folder in the eventual output site. The image could be in any of many images folders inside the data folder at encoding time. |
| ldt | (.+) | TAXO1.xml#$1 | ldt denotes LEMDOʼs document type taxonomy and categories therein. |
| leme | ([^\|]+)\|([^\|]+) | https://leme.library.utoronto.ca/lexicon/entry/$1/$2 | leme points to the URI for a single entry in Lexicons of Early Modern English. |
| lew | (.+) | lew:$1 |
lew (= lazy editor witness) is required because the majority of collation apparatus elements inherited from old projects did not have properly-defined witness lists, and just used plain text identifiers instead. This prefix is used to signify that the text still needs a
<witList>
element and for the identifiers to be reconfigured appropriately. |
| lig | (.+) | TAXO1.xml#lig_$1 | lig denotes a ligature defined in the taxonomies document. |
| marc | (.+) | http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/$1.html | marc points to a URI in the Library of Congress MARC Code List of Relators. |
| mol | ([^#]+)(#.+)? | https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/$1.htm$2 | mol allows us to point to the URI of a single entity (location, person, bibliography entry) in the Map of Early Modern London. |
| or | (.+) | sch/lemdo.odd#$1 |
or stands for ODD Responsibility,and it allows us to point from a
@resp attribute on a documentation file or an element in one to a specific
<respStmt>
in the lemdo.odd file. |
| org | (.+) | ORGS1.xml#$1 | org allows us to point to a single organization in LEMDO’s centralized orgography. |
| perf | ^([^\|]+)\|(.+)$ | performances/perf_$1.xml#perf_$1_$2 | The perf prefix points to a scene in a performance. |
| pers | (.+) | PERS1.xml#$1 | pers allows us to point to the bio-bibliographical entry for a single person in LEMDO’s centralized personography. |
| prod | (.+) | PROD1.xml#$1 | prod allows us to point to an entry in LEMDO’s centralized production file. |
| pros | (.+) | PROS1.xml#$1 | pros allows us to point to a single historical person in LEMDO’s centralized prosopography. |
| resp | (.+) | TAXO1.xml#$1 | resp allows us to point to a single role in the defined taxonomy of LEMDO responsibilities. |
| rnd | (.+) | TAXO1.xml#rnd_$1 | rnd is used to reference specialized styling instructions. |
| simple | (.+) | http://www.tei-c.org/Vault/P5/3.3.0/xml/tei/Exemplars/tei_simplePrint.odd#$1 | simple allows us to point to a predefined vocabulary of rendition types determined by the TEI-Simple working group. Documentation for TEI Simple can be found here: http://www.tei-c.org/Vault/P5/3.3.0/xml/tei/Exemplars/tei_simplePrint.odd. |
| sip | (.+) | https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Theater/artifact/$1 | sip is used to reference an artifact in the Shakespeare in Performance database. This link will be changed once SIP artifacts are moved to another institution. |
| sourcefacs | (.+) | https://lemdo.uvic.ca/facsimiles/$1 | sourceFacs is used to reference an external image. |
| sourceperf | (.+) | https://lemdo.uvic.ca/videos/$1 | sourceperf is used to reference an external video as used for performance editions. |
| static | (.+) | https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/$1 |
Not to be used by encoders! This is a staticresource; this link will be changed once file storage has been resolved. |
| tax | (.+) | TAXO1.xml#$1 | tax denotes a pointer to one of LEMDOʼs taxonomies. |
| wsb | (.+) | https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/$1 | wsb points to the URI for a single entry in the World Shakespeare Bibliography. |
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 | Prefix Definitions 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. |