Release Notes
Para1MoMS follows the Endings Principles for Release Management. We periodically release new static versions of this website. The release is comprised
of a complete and self-contained set of HTML files; they have no dependencies on external
code libraries or on a back end server. The Endings staticSearch engine (created by Martin Holmes and Joey Takeda) is built into the release so that MoMS is fully concordanced, indexed, and searchable.
Our release schedule allows us to publish editions as they are completed, add new
documentary discoveries, and update our bibliography in a systematic way. Each static
release has a version number. Major releases are indicated by a change to the whole
number integer (1.0 to 2.0). Minor releases of content are indicated by a change to
the point number (1.0 to 1.1). Releases are described on this page in chronological
order.
MoEML Mayoral Shows 1.0
Para2This first release of the SSHRC-funded MoEML Anthology of Mayoral Shows (December 20, 2022) is codenamed Strange and Rare, after the second line of the 1590 pageant book (Sp1).
Para3The MoMS team is honoured to release the first anthology prepared using the SSHRC-funded
Linked Early Modern Drama Online platform. MoMS is the first user of the LEMDO anthology customizer and the first project to
adapt the User Guide.
Para4This release includes the first two peer-reviewed editions of the MoMS anthology:
The Device of the Pageant by Thomas Nelson (1590), edited by Laurie Ellinghausen; and London’s Tempe by Thomas Dekker (1629), edited by Mark Kaethler.
Para5The release also includes some anthology-level paratextual materials that provide
essential contextual information about mayoral pageantry. These pages—Making, Staging, Printing, and Editing—will be peer reviewed and augmented for the next release. We are making them available
now so that educators will have resources to share with students as they begin to
adopt our editions for use in courses.
Para6This release describes the aims of the project as set out in our SSHRC Insight Grant application; sets out the basic terminology for discussing mayoral shows, books, and pageants; and begins the work of compiling
resources. The MoMS team also makes public the peer-reviewed
Editorial Guidelinesthat have been given to the editors.
Para7Known omissions in this release are as follows:
The modern text of London’s Tempe does not have speech or line numbers. The complexities of mayoral pageants—which
contain prose, poetry, speeches, and stage directions—stretch the capacities of both
the TEI Guidelines and the current processing pipelines of the LEMDO platform. MoMS will work with LEMDO
to devise new encoding and processing protocols for hybrid texts like the pageant
books. The modern text of The Device of the Pageant, on the other hand, contains only speeches and has lent itself well to LEMDO’s TEI
customization and processing.
The list of editions on the Sources page is incomplete.
The list of secondary criticism on mayoral pageantry is designed to become an exhaustive
bibliography but is currently incomplete. For now, it includes all of the sources
cited in the two editions in this release.
We are aware of some minor font inconsistencies.
Para8Credit for releasing MoMS 1.0 goes to the following people:
Janelle Jenstad and Mark Kaethler — December 20, 2022
Former Project Manager Kate LeBere and former MoEML RAs Chase Templet, Chris Horne, and Lucas Simpson for work on the old-spelling texts on the Map of Early Modern London site, a necessary precursor to the work of MoMS editors.
Former MoEML RA Amogha Lakshmi Halepuram Sridhar for copyediting the MoMS Editorial Guidelines and testing the LEMDO platform via
her forthcoming semi-diplomatic transcription of London’s Love to the Prince Henry.
Former LEMDO Project Manager Nicole Vatcher for her work compiling bibliographies and training other team members.
Current MoEML/MoMS Project Manager Molly Rothwell for managing editorial workflow, supporting the anthology leads, and entering metadata,
biographies, and bibliography items.
Current LEMDO Project Manager Navarra Houldin for overseeing the release workflow, resolving diagnostics, standardizing metadata,
writing the user guide, and running dozens of XPath searches and XSLT transformations
to standardize things across the anthology.
RAs Navarra Houldin, Molly Rothwell, Rylyn Christensen, and Chloe Mee for
final proofing and pre-release checks.
Editors Mark Kaethler and Laurie Ellinghausen for entrusting their work to LEMDO and MoMS and bearing with a certain amount of
encoding and editorial experimentation.
LEMDO’s first Lead Programmer Joey Takeda for creating the initial TEI customization and conceiving the anthology-publication
model.
HCMC Developer-Designer Patrick Szpak for creating a beautiful design.
HCMC Developer and LEMDO Lead Programmer Martin Holmes for consulting on the TEI customization, writing processing to create Endings-compliant
HTML from our XML, developing the hosting and archiving plan, and releasing the site.
Prosopography
Amogha Lakshmi Halepuram Sridhar
Research Assistant, 2021-present. Amogha Lakshmi Halepuram Sridhar is a fourth-year
student at University of Victoria, studying English and History. Her research interests
include Early Modern Theatre and adaptations, water pageantry, decolonialist writing,
and Modernist poetry.
Chase Templet
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!
Chris Horne
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.
Kate LeBere
Project Manager, 2020-2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019-2020. Textual Remediator
and Encoder, 2019-2021. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English
at the University of Victoria in 2020. During her degree she published papers in The Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History
Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management
in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth
and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet
during the Russian Cultural Revolution. She is currently a student at the University
of British Columbia’s iSchool, working on her masters in library and information science.
Laurie Ellinghausen
Laurie Ellinghausen is Professor of English at the University of
Missouri—Kansas City, where she teaches courses on early modern English
literature and drama. She is the author of Pirates,
Traitors, and Apostates: Renegade Identities in Early Modern English
Writing (U of Toronto P, 2018) and Labor
and Writing in Early Modern England, 1567-1667 (Ashgate,
2008). She is also the editor of Approaches to Teaching
Shakespeareʼs Early Modern English History Plays (MLA
Publications, 2017). Her current project is a monograph on
representations of seafaring labour in proto-imperial British writing.
Mark Kaethler
Mark Kaethler is Department Chair, Arts, at Medicine Hat College; Assistant Director,
Mayoral Shows, with MoEML; and Assistant Director for LEMDO. They are the author of
Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama (De Gruyter, 2021) and a co-editor with Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Janelle Jenstad
of Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge, 2018). Their work has appeared in The London Journal, Early Theatre, Literature Compass, Digital Studies/Le Champe Numérique, and Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, as well as in several edited collections.
Mark’s research interests include early modern literature’s intersections with politics;
digital media and humanities; textual editing; game studies; cognitive science; and
ecocriticism.
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.
Molly Rothwell
MoEML Project Manager, 2022-present. Research Assistant, 2020-2022. Molly Rothwell
was an undergraduate student at the University of Victoria, with a double major in
English and History. During her time at LEMDO, Molly primarily worked on encoding
the MoEML Mayoral Shows.
Navarra Houldin
Project manager 2022-present. Textual remediator 2021-present. Navarra Houldin 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.
Nicole Vatcher
Technical Documentation Writer, 2020-present. Nicole Vatcher completed her BA (Hons.)
in English at the University of Victoria in 2021. Her primary research focus was womenʼs
writing in the modernist period.
Patrick Szpak
Patrick Szpak is a Programmer Consultant and Web Designer in the Humanities Computing
and Media Centre at the University of Victoria.
Rylyn Christensen
Rylyn Christensen is an English major 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.
MoEML Mayoral Shows (MOMS1)
The MoMS General Editors are Mark Kaethler and Janelle Jenstad. The team includes
SSHRC-funded research assistants. Peer review is coordinated by the General Editors
but conducted by other editors and external scholars.
Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada (SSHR1)
https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/home-accueil-eng.aspxSSHRC is one of the three federal Tri-Council funding agencies that support scholarly
research in Canada.
Metadata
| Authority title | Release Notes |
| Type of text | About |
| Short title | Release |
| Publisher | The Map of Early Modern London on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform |
| Series | MoEML Mayoral Shows anthology |
| Source |
Page written by Janelle Jenstad
|
| Editorial declaration | n/a |
| Edition | Released with MoEML Mayoral Shows 1.0 |
| Encoding description | Encoded in TEI P5 according to the LEMDO Customization and Encoding Guidelines |
| Document status | published |
| Licence/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, MoMS, and LEMDO in any subsequent use of the files and/or data; (2) the content cannot be adapted or repurposed (except for quotations for the purposes of academic review and citation); and (3) commercial uses are not permitted without the knowledge and consent of MoMS, the editor, and LEMDO. This license allows for pedagogical use of the critical paratexts in the classroom. |