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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.
Hey there! You might recognize my name (or initials) from Twitter, Facebook, and the various other MoEML feeds. In addition to my work with the mayoral shows, it has also been my privilege to help kick MoEML’s social media presence and promotions into gear. Recent exciting developments are a fresh new look for the website, a redesigned news page, a Twitter feed (included after much debate), and a new series of blog posts from our entire team.
You might think that blogging would be the simplest of tasks for a team of researchers, text encoders, and English students. It seems, however, that there is a fundamental disconnect between writing research papers or proposals and writing blog posts. Nearly every team member asked me this question at some point in the process of preparing their blog posts: Should my citations still be in MLA, or does blogging require something like Chicago?
This question betrays our scholarly anxiety.
As a group of folks who have a near-Pavlovian response to structure and guidelines, we found it natural to construct a series of prompts to help grease the blog-writing wheels. Project Director
In approaching the team to begin filling up our blogroll, we created a rationale meant to underscore the desired ethics at stake:
The goal of the MoEML blog is to record the unseen labour of the project. Encoding is a lot of work, and it tends to get downplayed in the literary critical milieu. Encoding is often seen as the soft side of research and computer work. While hacking and building and scripting are given their proper dues, things like markup and encoding tend to be passed over as light design work. These blogs aim to highlight (in a light way) the work we do as encoders, and how this work contributes to the project and our own scholarly development as a whole. We are a fantastic team of techies, researchers, and administrators, and this blog will showcase it all.
With this rationale in mind, we then followed up with prompts in three categories:
The category Aesthetic and Environmental Ethos
provides bloggers an easy starting point for their writing: just write about how and where you do your encoding! This and most of the other prompts were generated from everyday discussions around our encoding work. We have, from time to time, taken to comparing and playfully slandering each other’s oXygen colour schemes. For example, those of us who use
some of the more garish colour schemes (think neon pink and slime green on a field of jet
black) do so for the sake of alertness. Having highly differentiated colours that leap off
the screen and assault the eyes is preferable for some encoders who spend long hours
peering into the murky depths of a two-thousand line sheet of XML. (Personally, I opt for
my custom colour scheme named reggae sunrise
: dull red, yellow, orange, and green, over
a field of charcoal grey. My defense is that the best encoding happens with a foundation
of rhythm!)
The category Personography
was designed to encourage MoEML team members to expand on their biographies, and perhaps provide a bit of depth to a personality behind their How do folks react when you explain encoding and programming to be integral to your work as an English student?
and How do you explain what you do to your friends and family?
We’ve all got some funny stories about explaing our work to those outside the project, all of which have necessitated us being able to explain our work in multiple registers. Saying that I work with stylesheets and databases to archive and conserve documents
sounds quite different than I work with transcriptions of mayoral shows from Early English Books Online and make them web-capable for an early modern research site
, simply because I emphasize different features of the same act.
Technical
, unlike the previous two categories, is geared towards the mechanical rather than the personal and social side of our work. Though it may seem a little interview-like, the question What is your prior computer experience?
elicits some surprising responses. Many of us came into technical work purely by chance, and had little or no experience with encoding, markup, programming before joining MoEML. Another hope at play with these prompts is the aspect of community-building by identifying other projects and experiences that have brought our team together.
Now you’re laughing, and that’s quite alright--anyone whose steps do not falter en route to success treads too light a path! I am proud to say that we have an outstanding series of blog posts underway, in which every member of MoEML has contributed intriguing and insightful glimpses into their work processes. As the blog posts begin to roll out, you’ll have some context as to why we’re getting so personal!