Release Notes for MoEML v.6.5 Janelle Jenstad Author Encoder Janelle Jenstad The Map of Early Modern Londonhttp://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/includes.xmlVictoria, BC, Canada
Department of English P.O.Box 3070 STNC CSC University of Victoria Victoria, BC Canada V8W 3W1
2016University of Victoria978-1-55058-519-3 Janelle Jenstad london@uvic.ca

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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.

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 Finalized and published. Created file Release Notes for MoEML v.6.5
Third Static Release

v.6.5 is the third release of a static version of our site.

Past MoEML Releases

A significant advantage of the static-release model is that we can now archive past MoEML releases for posterity. Just as old editions of books often remain in library collections, we are choosing to retain past editions of the MoEML project. You’ll find all previous releases at https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/old/. With the next release (v.6.6), we’ll ensure that these versions are findable from the current release.

Stow’s 1598 Survey of London

With this release, we are making available the full text of our tagged transcription of the 1598 Survey of London. The text is out for peer review while we make our final checks. The 1598 Stow has been long in the making. In 2013, we converted the EEBO-TCP transcription, encoded in TEI-P4, to MoEML’s customization of TEI-P5. EEBO-TCP offered a good starting point that saved us a lot of transcribing, typing, and encoding time. Our transcription supplies the many gaps left by EEBO-TCP transcribers and restores all the features omitted in TCP’s semi-diplomatic transcription (long s, changes in font, running titles, and catchwords). Furthermore, our edition takes as its copytext the University of Victoria’s recently acquired copy of the first state of the volume (DA680 S87 1598). Our text is linked to open-access images of the UVic copy, with the exception of the Errata page (sig. 2H10v), which the first state does not include. We have transcribed the Errata from the second state and linked this one page to the EEBO surrogate of the Huntington Library copy. While our 1598 Survey will not be complete until lead editor Janelle Jenstad has published the critical paratexts that accompany the text and the entire edition (content and tagging) has undergone peer review, the text itself already has enormous value to scholars of early modern London.

The MoEML 1598 Survey is significant for two reasons. First, it makes the first edition of the text readily available for the first time. Charles Lethbridge Kingsford’s 1908 edition of A Survey of London (Oxford University Press) is reprinted from the text of 1603. This edition is widely available in libraries and can be purchased as a reprint; more significantly, it was double-keyed for <ref target="https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/survey-of-london-stow/1603">British History Online</ref>, which means that the 1603 text is freely available and searchable. Our edition makes the first authorial text of 1598 freely available and searchable. Second, our text is annotated and indexed via entity tagging. All of Stow’s thousands of toponyms have been identified, tagged, and linked to MoEML encyclopedia pages. All of the many people mentioned by Stow have been identified, tagged, and linked to MoEML’s Personography. All dates (Julian calendar dates, regnal dates, and anno mundi dates) have been tagged in such a way as to facilitate translation to modern Gregorian equivalents (viewable in mouseover panes). Stow’s habit of apposing multiple toponyms means that his text offers valuable insight into the many names given to particular locations. MoEML harvests these toponyms and variants for the MoEML gazetteer.

To facilitate direct navigation to any section of the text, we have created an editorial table of contents. To facilitate continuous reading, we have added back and forward arrows at the top and bottom of each chapter page.

Interface Changes

With this release, we have made a minor interface change. The link to Related documents / disambiguation has moved from the left-hand navigation panel into the main encyclopedia entry, where it sits just under the title of the page. As our gazetteer has grown, we have made increasing use of MoEML’s capacity to make links and to differentiate places with similar names. We have therefore made this feature more prominent for users.