LEMDO’s TEI Customization
¶ Principles
The TEI standard contains far more elements, attributes, and suggested values than
any one project needs. LEMDO has
constrainedthe tagset by choosing only the elements and attributes that we need for encoding the types of texts within the LEMDO project and answering the research questions that LEMDO aims to enable. We are fully compliant with TEI in that we have not introduced any boutique elements.
All of our current elements are in the TEI namespace. If we need other elements, we
will draw from other standards. For example, if we need to encode music in our editions,
we will draw elements from the Music Encoding Initiative; MEI elements belong to the MEI namespace. Should our project needs not be met by
the TEI or a cognate XML standard with a declarable namespace, we will work with the
TEI to introduce new elements to the entire community rather than deviate from community
practice.
¶ Practice
We draw our tagset from the following chapters (also known as modules) of the TEI Guidelines:
In addition, we use the Elements Available in All TEI Documents, mechanisms for encoding Characters, Glyphs, and Writing Modes (digraphs and ligatures), Manuscript Description (for those plays that survive in manuscript), and other sections as needed.
Elements Available in All TEI Documents (the
Core Module).
Default Text Structure (the
Textstructure Module).
Performance Texts (because we focus on early modern drama).
The TEI Header (because metadata is how we give credit where credit is due).
Verse (because drama contains verse).
Representation of Primary Sources (because we have semi-diplomatic transcriptions of playbooks).
The elements, attributes, and allowed values for LEMDO are captured in the LEMDO RelaxiNG
schema (
lemdo.rng
). If you are able to read the XML schema, you are welcome to download it and have
a look. The link will always point to the most recent version of our schema.We have further constrained our schema by limiting the use of some elements to particular
types of documents. For example, the
<pb>
element that captures page beginnings is allowed only in texts that have been given
the semi-diplomatic editorial treatment (i.e., files that have an
@target
value of "cat:letSemiDiplomatic"
on a
<catDesc>
element).¶ Feature Requests
If you would like to suggest that we introduce a TEI element or attribute that is
currently not in the LEMDO schema, you may send a feature request to lemdo@uvic.ca. We will not add non-TEI elements or attributes. We can add project-specific values
for some attributes, provided they will be useful to a sufficient number of editions
to justify writing the necessary processing.
¶ Further Reading
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 | LEMDO’s TEI Customization |
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. |