Copyright held by
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Further details of licences are available from our
Licences page. For more
information, contact the project director,
Provider: University of Victoria
Database: The Map of Early Modern London
Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
TY - ELEC
A1 - Jenstad, Janelle
ED - Jenstad, Janelle
T1 - To Blog or Not to Blog
T2 - The Map of Early Modern London
ET - 6.6
PY - 2021
DA - 2021/06/30
CY - Victoria
PB - University of Victoria
LA - English
UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/6.6/BLOG6.htm
UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/6.6/xml/standalone/BLOG6.xml
ER -
The Julian calendar, in use in the British Empire until September 1752. This calendar is used for dates where the date of the beginning of the year is ambigious.
The Julian calendar with the calendar year regularized to beginning on 1 January.
The Julian calendar with the calendar year beginning on 25 March. This was the calendar used in the British Empire until September 1752.
The Gregorian calendar, used in the British Empire from September 1752. Sometimes
referred to as
The Anno Mundi (year of the world
) calendar is based on the supposed date of the
creation of the world, which is calculated from Biblical sources. At least two different
creation dates are in common use. See Anno Mundi (Wikipedia).
Regnal dates are given as the number of years into the reign of a particular monarch.
Our practice is to tag such dates with
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.
Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.
Research Assistant, 2013-2014. Zaqir Virani completed his MA at the University of Victoria in April 2014. He received his BA from Simon Fraser University in 2012, and has worked as a musician, producer, and author of short fiction. His research focused on the linkage of sound and textual analysis software and the work of Samuel Beckett.
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
Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of
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.
Poet. Helped establish Whitefriars Theatre.
Historian and author of
Most MoEML documents, or significant fragments with mol:
prefix and accessed through the web application
with their id + .xml
.
The molagas prefix points to the shape representation of a location on MoEML’s OpenLayers3-based rendering of the Agas Map.
Links to page-images in the Chadwyck-Healey
Links to page-images in the
The mdt (MoEML Document Type) prefix used on
The mdtlist (MoEML Document Type listing) prefix used in linking attributes points to a listings page constructed from a category in the central MDT taxonomy in the includes file. There are two variants, one with the plain _subcategories
, meaning all subcategories of the category.
The molgls (MoEML gloss) prefix used on
This molvariant prefix is used on
This molajax prefix is used on
The molstow prefix is used on
Our editorial and encoding practices are documented in detail in the Praxis section of our website.
Do we want a blog?
asked RA last updated
ISO date on any webpage, pointed out that we’d let our News page languish in the past. We’d have to commit to posting regularly. Being a reader of other projects’ blogs, I liked the idea, but worried about adding yet another responsibility to my list. After all, digital humanists already have to work twice as hard, first by doing the digital project and then by writing about it in other venues (Dunn). There are many defunct or sporadic blogs adrift in the digital seas, including my own unrewarded labour
, as Jeffrey Jerome Cohen calls blogging (1018)? Since you are reading our project blog, you already know that I said yes to the stress
, but we needed first to be clear about the purpose of such a blog and its value to MoEML.
Being academics, we did some research on blogs. A quick search of the
blogwith the results limited to
Publication Type = websiteturns up fifty-one results. That result simply tells us that there was a menu item entitled
Blogon the website when the MLA’s bibliographers paid a visit. It tells us nothing about the genre of the blog, its voice, or its purpose. So we made a more granular study of the project blog, looking at sites we know and like.
Various models have emerged in the last decade for the project blog. In some cases the blog IS the project (e.g.,
In developing our own model, we had to address some key questions:
we use the Blog for longer news stories (longer than one usually finds in Facebook or in our News Briefs) about project developments, challenges we’ve encountered, our working practices, and reflections on our work
. As an open-source, ongoing, federally funded project with a local team and contributors around the world, we have plenty of things to say about how we work, what interests and sustains us in our work, and what the scholarly landscape looks like from our point of view. Some of our more theoretical discussions will make their way into publication venues outside MoEML, while the outcomes of our technical debates end up being formalized on our Praxis page. The blog provides a virtual space where we can write about issues that arise in [our] academic work, but in a different context, a different style, with a different audience
(Estes 974).
Blog
for our convenience, but the Blog page itself, accessible via the News menu, is generated by including, in reverse chronological order, all the files with the document type ParatextBlogPost. We have not created a comment feature, but you can always send feedback using the Send Feedback
link on the left side of every page.
the project
or as individual voices, and who will write the posts?sharing some personal information is an essential part of blogging
(Steel, Cohen, Hurley, and Joy 1022). Blog posts afford opportunities for individual team members and contributors to speak in their own voices. We are self-conscious team members, each with designated areas of responsibility, particular strengths, and unique ways of working. As project director, I like the range of voices at our team meetings. As time goes on, we will welcome new voices to the team, and, we hope, new voices to the blog in the form of guest posts from outside the team.
Some of our blog posts will be reviews of other projects, digital tools, books, resources, or articles. Digital scholarship is still under-reviewed and under-reported. We can provide a service both to cognate projects and to our users by reviewing other resources, especially digital ones
. In the coming months, we’ll be reviewing projects with cognate interests (London, digital maps, gazetteers, toponyms, early modern big books) and/or similar technologies (GIS, TEI, versioning).
Some posts will be personal stories about our passions, motivations, and challenges. Over the coming months, you’ll be hearing about my first experience of London (as an adult, that is), our bidding war over the 1618 Stow, and why the RAs sign their emails Stow4Life
. Taking inspiration from
How often will we publish a new blog post? Well, we have ten in the workflow for encoding and ideas for several dozen more, so you can expect to hear from us every few weeks