History of MoEML
Now the city being like a vast sea, full of gusts, fearful-dangerous shelves and rocks, ready at every storm to sink and cast away the weak and unexperienced bark Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance. Use only in quotations in born-digital documents.[…] I, like another Columbus or Drake Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance. Use only in quotations in born-digital documents.[…] have drawn you this chart or map for your guide as well out of mine own as my many friends experience. (Henry Peacham, The Art of Living in London [1642])
Note: This page is being updated. 2015-03-09.
¶Overview
MoEML has some claim to call itself a
late first-generation digital humanities project,having launched as an intranet site and pedagogical tool at the University of Windsor in 1999.1 MoEML’s history begins in 1997, however, when I (Jenstad) first
remediatedthe
Agasmap.
In January 2015, MoEML reached Version 5.1, after a early history of fits and starts. Since we re-encoded
the entire project in TEI in 2005-2006, followed by a quiet internet launch in August 2006, MoEML has had a continuous web presence. The current version of MoEML is a static
Web site, built according to the principles of UVic’s Project Endings. Most major project developments since April 2013 are documented in our Project Plans, our Progress Charts, our Release Notes, the News pages, our Blog, and our Facebook and Twitter streams.
1997 | v0.1 | Print surrogate |
1999 | v1 | HTML |
2001 | V2 | HTML (frames) |
2006 | v3 | XML and TEI P4 |
2011 | v4 | TEI P5 |
2013 | v5 | + Historical GIS |
2015 | v5.1 | + Open Layers 3.0 |
2018 | v6.3 | First static build, but using eXist XML DB for search. |
2020 | v6.4 | First pure Endings-compliant static build, using the Project Endings staticSearch codebase for search. |
¶O Unreal City: Version 0.1
¶Writing Hypertext: Version 1
In 1999, three students in Dr. Colin Atkinson’s
Writing Hypertextcourse (English 208) at the University of Windsor were looking for a project and a supervisor. I offered my 6ft 3in laminated Agas Map. It took two months to scan the map in sections and create the first version of the site.
¶The Penny Drops: Version 2
My research assistant, Tara Drouillard, then defined the look of the site feature
above and created most of the pages. James Campbell and Joanna Hutz continued Ms.
Drouillard’s work by adding pages and bringing all the existing pages into stylistic
uniformity.
¶What’s in a Site Name?
¶Pedagogical Tool
By 2002, The Map of Early Modern London had become deeply embedded in my classroom practice. In the first iteration of this
project history (written around 2004), I wrote that:
The Agas Map is one of my favourite teaching tools. I use it to demonstrate the geographical relationship between the city and Renaissance theatres, to map out the routes of processions and pageants, and to show how the Lord Chamberlain’s Men (later the King’s Men) moved their business operations from the Theatre in the north, to the Globe on the Bankside on the south side of the Thames, to the Blackfriars complex in the heart of the City of London.
Select students in my Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama classes between 2001 and 2003
undertook hypertext research projects in lieu of a standard research essay. In those
days—before WordPress, Facebook, and Twitter—students had to learn to write for an
online environment. Writing hypertext demanded a different kind of organizational
structure than the conventional essay: shorter segments of writing, embedded hyperlinks,
headings, lists, shorter sentences, different punctuation choices (semi-colons still
don’t render well on screen, grammatically useful though they are), and inter-linked
rather than linear arguments. I asked each student to generate the equivalent of 8-10
pages of text divided between pages, and to indicate the links they would like created
between their own pages and existing pages of the website. Each project demanded both
historical research and literary application. After submission and grading, the student
made all necessary corrections before we edited the project together.
Only a few of those HTML projects were re-encoded in XML when we rebuilt the site
in 2005-2006. Still visible are a number of wonderful projects that came out of a graduate course
on
Pageantry, Play, and Performance in Early Modern Englandin Spring 2000, including a critical introduction to and diplomatic transcription of The Quenes Maiesties Passage by MA Student Jennie Butler. Laura Estill, who went on to join our Editorial Board many years later, wrote a brief history of the Whitefriars Theatre. The work of other University of Windsor students is evident throughout the site, in the form of articles, influence, or early encoding choices: Victoria Abboud, Jennifer Lo, Kimberley Martin, and others.
¶The Long Hiatus
¶Holmes at the Helm: Version 4
¶Full Compliance with TEI P5
¶Keeping our own History with Version Control
¶New Look, New Features
¶Funding from SSHRC
¶Expansion of the Team
¶From MoL to MoEML
¶Site Redesign
¶Documenting our Praxis
¶GIS Capabilities
¶Pedagogical Partnerships
¶The Next Phase of MoEML’s History
MoEML foresees a finite but significant amount of work ahead. Our New Directions sets out the milestones in our immediate future. Over the long term, there are enough
toponym-rich texts to keep MoEML editors and encoders busy for many years, should
we choose to keep expanding the Library. As funding and time permit, we also respond to developments in our field and use
MoEML as a testbed for new technologies and new ways of linking, tagging, visualizing,
and conceptualizing early modern texts and data. In his introduction to the Special
Cluster entitled
Donein Issue 3.2 of Digital Humanities Quarterly, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum asks
How do we know when we’re done?In 2015, we know that we are not
done.But in anticipation of a far-off day when we do write
donenext to the final milestone, we are future-proofing our project and data according to best practices (some of which we are developing) so that MoEML’s texts and functionalities will continue to be available to scholars, teachers, students, and the general public.
Notes
- See Susan Hockey’s
The History of Humanities Computing
for an overview of the field to 2004. (JJ)↑
References
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Hockey, Susan.The History of Humanities Computing.
A Companion to Digital Humanities. Ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth. Blackwell, 2004. Remediated by XTF. [Direct link to chapter.]This item is cited in the following documents:
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Kirschenbaum, Matthew G.Done: Finishing Projects in the Digital Humanities.
Digital Humanities Quarterly 3.2 (2009).This item is cited in the following documents:
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Peacham, Henry. The Art of Living in London. 1642. The Complete Gentleman, The Truth of Our Times, and The Art of Living in London. Ed. Virgil B. Heltzel. Ithaca: Cornell UP for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1962. 243–50.This item is cited in the following documents:
Cite this page
MLA citation
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Chicago citation
History of MoEML.The Map of Early Modern London. Ed. . Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed September 15, 2020. https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/history.htm.
APA citation
The Map of Early Modern London. Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/history.htm.
2020. History of MoEML. In (Ed), RIS file (for RefMan, EndNote etc.)
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TEI citation
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Personography
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Joey Takeda
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Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017. Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.Roles played in the project
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Tye Landels-Gruenewald
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Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.Roles played in the project
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Kim McLean-Fiander
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Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–present. Associate Project Director, 2015–present. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to The Map of Early Modern London from the Cultures of Knowledge digital humanities project at the University of Oxford, where she was the editor of Early Modern Letters Online, an open-access union catalogue and editorial interface for correspondence from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. She is currently Co-Director of a sister project to EMLO called Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO). In the past, she held an internship with the curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, completed a doctorate at Oxford on paratext and early modern women writers, and worked a number of years for the Bodleian Libraries and as a freelance editor. She has a passion for rare books and manuscripts as social and material artifacts, and is interested in the development of digital resources that will improve access to these materials while ensuring their ongoing preservation and conservation. An avid traveler, Kim has always loved both London and maps, and so is particularly delighted to be able to bring her early modern scholarly expertise to bear on the MoEML project.Roles played in the project
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Janelle Jenstad
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Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and PI of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). She has prepared a documentary edition of 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, Renaissance and Reformation,Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Her book chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter, 2016), Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, 2015), Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana, 2016), Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota, 2017), and Rethinking Shakespeare’s Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge, 2018).Roles played in the project
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Building a Gazetteer for Early Modern London, 1550-1650.
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The Burse and the Merchant’s Purse: Coin, Credit, and the Nation in Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody.
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Lying-in Like a Countess: The Lisle Letters, the Cecil Family, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside.
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Public Glory, Private Gilt: The Goldsmiths’ Company and the Spectacle of Punishment.
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Smock Secrets: Birth and Women’s Mysteries on the Early Modern Stage.
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Using Early Modern Maps in Literary Studies: Views and Caveats from London.
GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place. Ed. Michael Dear, James Ketchum, Sarah Luria, and Doug Richardson. London: Routledge, 2011. Print. -
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Versioning John Stow’s A Survey of London, or, What’s New in 1618 and 1633?.
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Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Internet Shakespeare Editions. Open.
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Stow, John. A SVRVAY OF LONDON. Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne estate, and description of that Citie, written in the yeare 1598. by Iohn Stow Citizen of London. Also an Apologie (or defence) against the opinion of some men, concerning that Citie, the greatnesse thereof. With an Appendix, containing in Latine, Libellum de situ & nobilitate Londini: written by William Fitzstephen, in the raigne of Henry the second. Ed. Janelle Jenstad and the MoEML Team. MoEML. Transcribed. Web.
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Jennifer Lo
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Having finished her bachelor’s degree at the University of Victoria, Jennifer went on to take a postgraduate degree at King’s College London. She completed her master’s in 2010 and is currently working on a PhD at King’s. Her doctoral project involves early modern non-literary documents and organizational theory.Roles played in the project
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Laura Estill
Dr. Laura Estill is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University. She is editor of the World Shakespeare Bibliography. Her book, Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays, is forthcoming from the University of Delaware Press. Her research interests include early modern English drama, print and manuscript culture, and digital humanities. Her research has appeared in Shakespeare, Huntington Library Quarterly, Early Theatre, Studies in English Literature, ArchBook, Opuscula, and The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare.Laura was one of MoEML’s earliest contributors, having participated in Janelle Jenstad’s undergraduate course, English 328: Drama of the English Renaissance, at the University of Windsor in 2003.Roles played in the project
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Martin D. Holmes
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Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.Roles played in the project
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Kimberley Martin
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Student contributor enrolled in English 412: Representations of London at the University of Windsor in Fall 2002. BA combined honours student, English Language and Literature and Gistory, University of Windsor. Kimberley Martin defended her MA in History at the University of Guelph in October 2004, began doctoral studies at the University of Warwick, and is now completing her PhD at the University of Western Ontario.Kimberley Martin is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
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Victoria Abboud
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Revenge tragedy student at the University of Windsor in Winter 2001. Victoria Abboud completed her MA in English at Wayne State University in 2003, and her PhD at Wayne State University in 2010. She is now an instructor in the Arts and Education Department of Grande Prairie Regional College, Alberta.Victoria Abboud is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
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Locations
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Whitefriars Theatre
One of the lesser known halls or private playhouses of Renaissance London, the Whitefriars, was home to two different boy playing companies, each of which operated under several different names. Whitefriars produced many famous boy actors, some of whom later went on to greater fame in adult companies. At the Whitefriars playhouse in 1607–1608, the Children of the King’s Revels catered to a homogenous audience with a particular taste for homoerotic puns and situations, which resulted in a small but significant body of plays that are markedly different from those written for the amphitheatres and even for other hall playhouses.Whitefriars Theatre is mentioned in the following documents: