How to Use the English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Author Stonehill College English 304 Spring 2014 Students Guest Editor Kristen Abbott Bennett Copy Editor Tye Landels Encoder Tye Landels Data Manager Tye Landels Junior Programmer Joey Takeda Programmer Martin Holmes Associate Project Director Kim McLean-Fiander Project Director Janelle Jenstad The Map of Early Modern Londonhttp://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/includes.xmlVictoria, BC, Canada
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Born digital. This how-to guide was first published at https://earlymoderneng304.wordpress.com/eebo/ by Kristen Abbbott Bennett.

Most MoEML documents, or significant fragments with xml:id attributes, can be addressed using the 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 Early English Books Online (EEBO) repository. Note that this is a subscription service, and may not be accessible to those accessing it from locations outside member institutions.

Links to page-images in the English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA).

The mdt (MoEML Document Type) prefix used on catRef/target points to a central taxonomy in the includes file.

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 xml:id of the category, meaning all documents in the specified category, and one with the suffix _subcategories, meaning all subcategories of the category.

The molgls (MoEML gloss) prefix used on term/corresp points to a a glossary entry in the GLOSS1.xml file.

This molvariant prefix is used on ref/target attributes during automated generation of gazetteer index files. It points to an element in the generated variant spellings listing file which lists all documents which contain a particular spelling variant for a location.

This molajax prefix is used on ref/target attributes during the static build process, to specify links which point to MoEML resources which should not be loaded into the source page during standalone processing; instead, these should be turned into links to the XML source documents, and at HTML page load time, these should be turned into AJAX calls. This is to handle the scenario in which a page such as an A-Z index of the whole site would end up containing virtually the whole site inside itself.

The molstow prefix is used on facs attributes to link to the HCMC verison of the Stow facsimiles. Usually the first group is the year (1633) and then last is the image number (0001).

The molshows prefix is used on facs attributes to link to the copies of page-images from mayoral shows stored in the london account on the HCMC server. The first group is the year (1633), the second is the source repository, and then last is the image file name.

The sb prefix is used on ref/target attributes to link to Stow’s Books URLs at UToronto.

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This guide to using EBBA was one of several guides written for students by students working under the supervision of Dr. Kristen A. Bennett. These how to resources for conducting digital, archival, and worldwide library research across topics in early modern English literature were created by undergraduate students in the Spring 2014, ENG 304 class, Subversion and Scandal in Early Modern Print Culture with the help of the Faculty Initiatives in Technology grant at Stonehill College. Dr. Bennett and her students kindly gave MoEML permission to republish their guides. Click here for guides to Early English Books Online, the Folger Digital Image Collection, Project Gutenberg, and the Internet Shakespeare Editions. To see the guides in their original context, along with other materials, visit the English 304 blog.
About EBBA
Dr. Patricia Fumerton. Image Courtesy of UCSB.

The English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) was created in 2003 by director Patricia Fumerton. She was interested in developing a digital tool that would make broadside balladsIn the first half of the seventeenth century, the term broadside ballad referred to a popular poem, often set to the tune of a melody, that was printed on a single, large sheet of paper with multiple illustrations and an interesting title. To learn more about broadside ballads, see the features tab in EBBA. more accessible to researchers. EBBA provides access to approximately ten thousand ballads, most of which were published during the seventeenth-century. Although EBBA prioritizes the black-letter ornamental broadside ballad, EBBA also archives hundreds of other texts from the sixteenth-century and early eighteenth-century as well. EBBA delivers high-quality ballad sheet facsimiles and transcriptions.A facsimile transcription is something that maintains the original decoration of the text while still transforming the ballad into readable modern day language.

How to Navigate EBBA

EBBA is an open-source website, meaning that it can be accessed by anyone on any computer. To access EBBA, enter the URL http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ into your web browser. The folllowing instructions describe how to navigate EBBA, emphasizing sections and features that may be of interest to students.

1. Features Under the features column, there are five subcategories to explore: images, transcriptions, recordings, cataloguing, and TEI-XML. Each of these subcategories offers an in depth analysis of EBBA’s methodology for their ballad archive.
2. Search There is a text box in the upper left-hand corner of the homepage labeled ballad search. Enter your search keyword(s) in the text box and press search to see your search results. You will be directed to a new page that lists every entry that matches your search keyword(s). For each entry, you will be able to preview the title of the ballad, the year of its publication, and a thumbnail image of the ballad.
Screen capture of the EBBA advanced search page.
Screen capture of a ballad in EBBA.
3. Advanced Search EBBA also offers an advanced search, which allows for more precise searches. To be directed to the advanced search form, click on the advanced search link underneath ballad search on the homepage. On the advanced search page, there are options to search by title, first lines, author, date, printer/publisher, collection, volume, and other search keywords.
4. Individual Entries Click on an individual entry in the search results to see more information about that entry. There are a number of tabs associated with each individual entry. The album facsimile, ballad sheet facsimile, and facsimile transcription tabs offer different images of the broadside ballad. When looking at these images, use the image manipulation toolbar (lower left-hand side of the webpage) to zoom in, zoom out, or view a full-size version of the image. The citation tab offers a complete bibliographic description of the ballad, including information about titles, subtitles, the author, year of publication, publisher information, location of the ballad, ballad collection, etc. The text transcription tab offers a diplomatic transcription of the ballad. Some entries will have a recording tab. Click on this tab to hear a recording of the ballad, set to its original tune.