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T1 - Using the Personography Spreadsheet
T2 - The Map of Early Modern London
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PY - 2022
DA - 2022/05/05
CY - Victoria
PB - University of Victoria
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UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/PERS_spreadsheet.htm
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Junior Programmer 2018-2020. Research Associate 2020-2021. Tracey received her PhD from the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the
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.
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
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.
Queen of England and Ireland
King of England
Theatre financier. Husband of
Czar of Russia and Grand Prince of Muscovy.
King of England
Coffee-house keeper, printer, and eponymist of Lloyd’s Insurance.
Playwright and poet.
First Baronet. Sheriff of London
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The personography spreadsheet is designed to provide a simple, efficient, and consistent way for external contributors to record historical and literary names that are not currently entered in our PERS1.xml database. Before using this spreadsheet, please familiarize yourself with the following instructions and suggestions.
Throughout the spreadsheet and this document, you will encounter numerous references to
Historical persons are non-fictitious individuals born before
Literary persons are fictitious individuals or fictitious representations of non-fictitious individuals who appear in the literature of early modern London. Literary persons can be original characters conceived of by early modern authors or mythological persons, characters, or beings evoked and/or reinterpreted by early modern authors.
Entering names into PERS1.xml requires some biographical research. As an external contributor, we assume that you are very familiar with this type of research and we encourage you to bring your unique skills and knowledge to our project.
For your reference, we have found the following resources to be helpful when researching historical and literary persons related to our project.
The spreadsheet functions as a simple text-based form on one single sheet. Knowledge or use of Excel formulae and functions is not required. You will notice that the spreadsheet is divided horizontally into five sections: Name Information, Categorization, Life Dates, Description, and Additional Information. Below each of these section headings are subheadings. Each subheading corresponds with a spreadsheet column in which relevant information should be entered.
You will receive the spreadsheet as an email attachment from a MoEML team member. The file will be formatted as a .xlsx file and therefore will be compatible with post-2003 versions of Microsoft Office, iWork, OpenOffice, and LibreOffice. If you are using an earlier version of one of these programs, you may email MoEML Encoder
Please save the attached spreadsheet onto your computer in a secure location with an easily searchable name. Note that the document content and structure is the creative property of MoEML. As our project is committed to open scholarship, we welcome and encourage you to use the spreadsheet in your own research so long as you acknowledge
For your reference, there are four sample entries already entered in the spreadsheet; do not delete these entries as they may prove useful at any point when you are using the spreadsheet.
There are instructional comments for each subheading integrated into the spreadsheet. To access these comments, simply place your cursor over the subheading about which you would like more information. For example, if I were unsure what to enter for Sex,
I would scroll over the Sex
column for an instructional comment that reads For sex, 0=unknown, 1=male, 2=female, and 3=other.
The following section provides a step-by-step guide for filling out the spreadsheet. Much of the information in this section can also be found in the comments integrated into the spreadsheet.
Make sure that all data you enter is precise and accurate, and follows MoEML’s editorial style guidelines. Because this spreadsheet will be used to automatically generate XML code, it is important that there are no inconsistencies in spacing and/or capitalization.
Before you enter any information about a person into the spreadsheet, first make sure that the person is not already in MoEML’s PERS1.xml database. This information can be obtained by using the Ctrl+F function to search MoEML’s List of @xml:ids Used in the Document Collection for a person’s name.
The first section of the spreadsheet,
Please note that, because the spelling of early modern names is so inconsistent, we constantly need to make editorial decisions regarding which spelling of a name to use in our database. Generally speaking, MoEML uses formal and modernized spellings of names. If you are unsure about how to spell a particular name, please pass this duty onto the database manager. You may do so by adding this information to the Comments
column of the spreadsheet (column X).
A descriptive phrase that often precedes the person’s name, such as
A title that indicates the role, often royal or religious. that a person plays in society, such as Good
A formal and modernized spelling of a person’s given name. If you are entering the name of an allegorical character or mythological character identified by a single name, this name counts as a forename. For example, if you were creating a PERS entry for the allegorical character of Love, then the noun Love counts as a forename.
A formal and modernized spelling of a person’s second given name. If a person has more than one middle name, enter both in the cell provided. Moreover, if we know only the middle name for a person, enter this name in the
Names of French, Dutch, noble English, or noble German origins often include a possessive preposition between a person’s forename and surname; we tag this preposition as a name link. For example, consider the italicized preposition in
A formal and modernized spelling of a person’s last name. You will need to identify the most common or refutable spelling of a person’s surname.
A number expressed in uppercase roman numerals that often follows a person’s proper name, identifying the generation of that name. Most names that include a generation number are royal names, such as
A descriptive phrase that often follows a person’s name, such as the
combined with an adjective functioning as a noun.
The second section of the spreadsheet,
Person types were described previously in Section II of this document. In this column, use a number 1 to classify historical persons and 2 to classify literary persons.
We recognize the issues that can emerge when trying to classify persons into discrete sex types. Nonetheless, our project works within the framework of the TEI and therefore is limited in its ability to represent sex and gender complexities. Currently, we use a number 0 to classify unknown sex (a classification that is particularly useful for mythological or allegorical characters with no clear expression of gender), a number 1 to classify male sex, a number 2 to classify female sex, and a number 3 to classify other sex (a classification that might include transsexual or hermaphroditic sex types).
The third section of the spreadsheet,
Enter the person’s date of birth in ISO standard format (YYYY-MM-DD). If you lack data about a particular date component, insert 00 in place of the unknown date component. For example, we know that
Indicate how precise your data for date of birth is. Insert a value of either low
or high
in this column. Unless you are able to identify a specific calendar day in which the person was born, it is likely that your birth date will be low
in precision. This column must be filled in if you supply date of birth data.
Indicate how certain your data for date of birth is. Insert a value of either low
or high
in this column. If you encounter conflicting or inconsistent data pertaining to a person’s date of birth, the certainty of your information is likely low.
The opposite is true if you encounter consistent information. This column must be filled in if you supply date of birth data.
Enter the person’s date of death in ISO standard format (YYYY-MM-DD). If you lack data about a particular date component, insert 00 in place of the unknown date component.
Indicate how precise your data for date of death is. Insert a value of either low
or high
in this column. Unless you are able to identify a specific calendar day in which the person died, it is likely that your birth date will be low
in precision. This column must be filled in if you supply date of death data.
Indicate how certain your data for date of death is. Insert a value of either low
or high
in this column. If you encounter conflicting or inconsistent data pertaining to a person’s date of death, the certainty of your information is likely low.
The opposite is true if you encounter consistent information. This column must be filled in if you supply date of death data.
The fourth section of the spreadsheet,
A sentence or two that summarizes the person’s historical or literary significance. Your summary should be short: the point of this statement is not to provide a biography, but to identify the person in the context of early modern London. For historical persons, simply list the person’s social roles and significant corresponding dates; for example Coffee-house keeper, publisher, and namesake of Lloyd’s Insurance.
If you find yourself writing a biographical statement for a former lord mayor of London, remember that the title First baronet, merchant, and financier; lord mayor of London in 1631-32.
For literary persons, list the text in which they appear and their role therein; for example, the biographical statement for Allegorical character in The Triumph of re-united Britania who personifies the geographic area and settlement of present-day London.
An http:// address that links to an external webpage that provides an article on the person. Note that related resources must only consist of http:// addresses belonging to
The MoEML-defined acronym for the related resource that was used in the previous column. Acronyms are ODNB for
An http:// address that links to an external webpage that provides another article on the person. Note that the 2nd related resources must only consist of http:// addresses belonging to
The MoEML-defined acronym for the related resource that was used in the previous column. Acronyms are ODNB for
If a person’s spreadsheet entry required a notable amount of research, cite your source(s). Use your discretion to decide whether this component is necessary or not for each particular entry. Generally speaking, if you are unable to provide any related resources for a historical name, then you should provide an MLA citation for your source.
The fifth and final section of the spreadsheet,
Once you have finished entering a set of names into the spreadsheet, please send the now-complete .xlsx file as an email attachment to
Once you have received an email from MoEML listing the new
(The diary, written by Henslowe, is considered very valuable to modern-day scholars.
To do this, I would first determine the HENS1
. Having determined this
A document entitled
This concludes the guide to using MoEML’s personography spreadsheet. Thank you for your interest in and contributions to our project. As we are still only just beginning to accept contributions from external contributors, we enthusiastically welcome your feedback on this instructional guide and the procedures it outlines.
If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions related to the spreadsheet, please contact
If you have any questions regarding biographical research or practices related to the PERS1.xml database, please contact