Social Media Guidelines Author Janelle Jenstad Author Kim McLean-Fiander 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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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.

Our editorial and encoding practices are documented in detail in the Praxis section of our website.

Standardized respStmts for JENS1, MCFI1, and HOLM3 and added TAKE1 as Junior Programmer. Added index terms. Added XInclude for listPrefixDef in the header. Added global publicationStmt through XInclude. Created document. Social Media Guidelines
MoEML’s Social Media Culture content guidelines social media twitter tweets facebook news briefs blog social media culture values on social media social media ethos

Our aim in our social media activities is to model a collegial working environment in academia. With that in mind, we have determined that MoEML’s social media (Facebook, Twitter, our onsite News Briefs, and our Blog) should be used as follows:

To Celebrate successes of past and present MoEML team members (including editorial and advisory board members). Examples: contributor publishes an article on the MoEML site contributor or supporter publishes something in the wider media (e.g., we wrote a brief post about MoEML editorial board member Mary Ann Lund who wrote an article on Richard III for the Times Literary Supplement). new resources: we like to support other DH projects by celebrating their successes (e.g., Bess of Hardwick Letters project; WEMLO – Women’s Early Modern Letters Online). new early modern finds in London (e.g. archaeological finds; London playtexts discovered) MoEML project milestones (e.g., today, after 11 months of hard work, the MoEML team finished encoding the 1633 edition of John Stow’s The Survey of London). team members, old and new: hellos and farewells (e.g., welcome new team members; say thanks, goodbye, and good luck to departing team members). To Inform followers about anything relevant to early modern London, especially if we can add a link. To Self-Market MoEML’s content and capabilities: offer ways people can use MoEML for their own research or just for fun and tie these sorts of posts in with our Encyclopedia or Library texts (e.g., Did you know that MoEML’s search function automatically looks for short-s and long-ſ variants?; Did you know that Cheapside is mentioned 256 times in our project?; If you want to know where Crosby House was, MoEML can tell you!) To Provide Project Updates E.g., MoEML has just uploaded a new article on Bear Baiting in the MoEML Encyclopedia
Other Types of Posts/Tweets content guidelines social media twitter tweets facebook news briefs blog social media culture values on social media social media ethos other types of posts/tweets London-related content

If you come across something (another tweet, an article, a news story, et cetera) that makes you think of MoEML (because it’s something about London, the early modern period, digital humanities, or maps, say), then it’s probably worth tweeting/posting. If it piques your interest as a MoEML RA, then it will probably be of interest to other early modernists. Always try to link what you tweet/post back to MoEML. E.g., if we are having discussions at our weekly team meetings about how to track work flow and you then find an article in HASTAC about work flow, connect the two: MoEML team members have recently been discussing ways to track our work flow and we found that the following HASTAC article helpful in clarifying our process.

MoEML Etiquette content guidelines social media twitter tweets facebook news briefs blog social media culture values on social media social media ethos etiquette on social media politeness on social media manners on social media Do not complain. Do not criticize team members, collaborators, contributors, scholars, other projects, or our project, either explicitly or implicitly. In the reviews that we post on our blog, maintain scholarly neutrality when assessing the value and utility of other scholars’ work. A balanced review is ultimately more valuable to the creators of those resources than a glowing review that overlooks weakness, or a negative review that doesn’t acknowledge strengths. Do not tag people in photos or posts if they have indicated that they prefer not to be tagged. Be exquisitely polite.
Frequency and Style of Posts/Tweets content guidelines social media twitter tweets facebook news briefs blog posts on social media frequency of social media posts frequency of tweets style of social media posts style of tweets Avoid tweeting/posting the same format (e.g., a letter or a quotation) on a daily basis. Instead, offer a wide variety of posts and/or have occasional bursts of tweets/posts. For self-marketing purposes, we can remind people of features of the website that have recently been updated or improved. Post/tweet in a targeted way. For example, when we’re ready for the new web design launch, we may do a flurry of social media posts in the week leading up to the launch, a countdown approach to the launch, teasers that tell users what’s in store, and then a big splash of posting/tweeting once we know it has launched successfully.
Formatting Tweets content guidelines social media twitter tweets style of tweets formatting tweets grammar jargon Grammar: aim for perfection! Social media jargon is okay (e.g., for a tweet: cd hv for could have is fine). Always put your initials in parentheses after your tweet (JJ, KMF, QM, ZV). Tag people in Facebook photos, unless they have indicated they don’t wish to be tagged. Tagged images reach a wider audience.

Bear in mind that tweets and Facebook posts provide a live news feed to the Home Page of the newly designed MoEML website and also appear on the News pages.

The MoEML Blog content guidelines social media blog posts on social media 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. 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.
Related Resources content guidelines social media twitter tweets facebook news briefs blog further reading more information related resources

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, If You Can’t Say Anything Nice. Blog post.

Ryan Cordell, Mea Culpa: On Conference Tweeting, Politeness, and Community Building. Blog post.