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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 Joey Takeda Joey Takeda JT

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.

 Tye Landels-Gruenewald Tye Landels-Gruenewald TLG

Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.

 Kim McLean-Fiander Kim McLean-Fiander KMF

Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–2020. Associate Project Director, 2015. 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.

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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).

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Kristen Abbott Bennett has been a MoEML pedagogical partner and module mentor; she is now Assistant Director, Pedagogy. She is an Assistant Professor in the English Department of Framingham State University, where she teaches classics, medieval and early modern British literature, and digital humanities. In addition to her contributions to MoEML as a guest editor, Dr. Bennet is the editor of Conversational Exchanges in Early Modern England (1549-1640), and has published articles on digital pedagogy, Nashe, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and other topics. She is the Director of The Kit Marlowe Project and has served on the scholarly advisory committee for the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Digital Anthology of Early Modern Drama project, and on the editorial board of This Rough Magic: A Peer-Reviewed, Academic, Online Journal Dedicated to the Teaching of Medieval and Renaissance Literature.

 Martin D. Holmes Martin D. Holmes MDH

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Student contributors enrolled in Learning Community 343: Pop Culture and <soCalled>Bibliodigigogy</soCalled> in Early Modern England at Stonehill College in Spring 2014, working under the guest editorship of Kristen Abbott Bennett.

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

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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.