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Quickstarts Getting Started Introduction Learn about the Project Working Team Communication Role-based Email Email Distribution Lists Team Meetings Project Management Software Tracking Hours and Payroll Tools for Remote Work Remote Access VPN Virtual "Co-working" Spaces Set up your Workstation Set up SVN Check out the Repository Set up Oxygen Access the Repository Update and Commit Files Research Hygiene and Daily Routine Introduction to Markup Introduction What is Markup? Terminology MoEML’s Markup Language Exercises in Oxygen Tagging Survey of London Introduction Tagging Bibliographical Codes Proofing the Transcription Line Beginnings and Hyphens Line Groups Renditions Marginal Notes Tagging Dates, Organizations, Toponyms, and People Tagging Dates Tagging Organizations Tagging Toponyms Tagging People Common Mistakes Adding Organizations Introduction Lesser Livery Companies Other Early Modern Organizations and Offices Adding Places Introduction Determining whether to Add a Place Creating New Location Documents "Rerouting" Closely Related Places Adding Temporal Data Researching Locations and Writing Abstracts Citing Sources Adding People Introduction Lord Mayors and Sheriffs Families Member of a Livery Company Unknown Person Possibly the same person? Latin Epitaphs Common Mistakes

Setup Your MoEML Workstation Access Files from the Subversion (SVN) Repository Introduction About the SVN Repository Linux Users Windows Users Mac Users Tips and Tricks Creating a New @xml:id Get the Most out of Oxygen Introduction Add Code Templates for Special Characters Set Up Schematron Validation Adjust Validation Settings for Files with XInclude Find and Replacing Encoded Text Wrap XML Code

Encoding Instructions Understand MoEML’s Website and Document Structure Introduction Static Website Build Document Collection Document Structure Simple Documents Location Documents Database Files Bibliography (BIBL1.xml) Personography (PERS1.xml) Glossary (GLOSS1.xml) Orgography (ORGS1.xml) Linkography (LINKS1.xml) Paratext (Info Pages) Boilerplate Text General Encoding Practices Introduction Use the <div> Element Add Draft Content to a Published Document Encode Spaces Truthfully Encode Editorial Notes Encode Words and Phrases in a Language other than English Encode Special Characters Encode Non-standard Characters Encode Roman Numerals Use Split Tags to Represent Overlapping Hierarchies Encode a Table Index Praxis Documentation Tag an "Interesting Snippet" Add the "MoEML Decorative Daisy" as a Block Element Create a MoEML <teiHeader> Introduction Responsibility Statements <respStmt> in Primary-Source Files Responsibility Statements in Database Files Document Type Taxonomy List of All Document Types Revision Descriptions Link Content to Pages and Databases Introduction Link to MoEML Webpages Link to External Webpages Check and Fix External Links Link to YouTube Videos Link to Audio Files Graphics Markup (Tag) and Pull Data from Databases Link to Location Files Link to People in PERS1.xml Link to Reference Material in BIBL1.xml Link to Glossary Terms in GLOSS1.xml Link to Organizations in ORGS1.xml Link to Related Documents in LINKS1.xml Geocode MoEML Locations Basics of GIS Locations Resources for Finding Geo-coordinates Manually Find Geo-coordinates Introduction to OpenStreetMap Nominatim Introduction to HCMC World Map for Drawing Encode a Location on the Agas Map Encode Style Introduction TEI versus CSS Use TEI to Style a Text Use CSS to Style a Text Use the <rendition> Element and @rendition Attribute Standardized Renditions Standardized Renditions for Library Texts Standardized Renditions for Survey of London Style Survey of London Page Width Blackletter Typeface Chapter Headings Dropcaps Running Headers Page Numbers Signature Numbers Catchwords Marginal Labels Indentation Changes in Typeface Complex Cases Encode Persons Add a Historical or Literary Person Encode the Root Element Encode Names Encode Life Dates Note Biographical Information Example Entries Research a Historical or Literary Person Add Modern Contributors Encode the Root Element Encode Names Note Biographical Information Example Entries Further Resources Encode Dates Introduction When to Encode a Date Encoding Julian Dates Encoding Regnal Dates The Range of Dating Elements Attributes for Date Ranges Examples Uncertainty, Imprecision, and Evidence How Dates are Rendered Encode a Primary Source Transcription Introduction Conventions for Diplomatic Transcriptions Prepare an EEBO Transcription Workflow Pass 1: Basic Document Structure Encode the Front Matter Encode the Main Text in the Work Encode the Back Matter Pass 2: Interpolations and Supplied Characters (Gaps) Pass 3: Encode Bibliographical Codes Encode Line Beginnings and Hyphens Encode Page Beginnings Encode Forme Works Encode Last-word Wraps Pass 4: Encode MoEML Dates, Names, and Toponyms Pass 5: Styling and Conservation Specific Instructions for Encoding a Mayoral Pageant Book Encode a Library Text Introduction Transcribe a Library Text Transciption Conventions Unicode Characters Special Characters Irregularities Textual Gaps Encode a Library Text Front Matter Page Breaks Figures Style a Library Text Page Width Text Alignment Standardized Renditions Changes in Typeface Superscripts Tag a Library Text

Content Guidelines Guide to Editorial Style Introduction General Practice Using this Guide Tone and Verb Tense Spelling and Capitalization Punctuation Italicization Dates and Numbers Quotation and Transcription Citation Parenthetical Citation Works Cited List Social Media Guidelines MoEML’s Social Media Culture MoEML Etiquette Frequency and Style of Posts/Tweets Formatting Tweets The MoEML Blog Related Resources

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Participants Kate LeBere Kate LeBere KL

Project Manager, 2020-2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019-2020. Research Assistant, 2018-2020. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English at the University of Victoria in 2020. She published papers in The Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet during the Russian Cultural Revolution. During her time at MoEML, Kate made significant contributions to the 1598 and 1633 editions of Stow’s Survey of London, old-spelling anthology of mayoral shows, and old-spelling library texts. She authored the MoEML’s first Project Management Manual and "quickstart" guidelines for new employees and helped standardize the Personography and Bibliography. She is currently a student at the University of British Columbia’s iSchool, working on her masters in library and information science.

Tracey El Hajj Tracey El Hajj TEH

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 algorhythmics of networked communications. She was a 2019-20 President’s Fellow in Research-Enriched Teaching at UVic, where she taught an advanced course on Artificial Intelligence and Everyday Life. Tracey was also a member of the Linked Early Modern Drama Online team, between 2019 and 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, she was a fellow in residence at the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, where she investigated the relationships between artificial intelligence, creativity, health, and justice. As of July 2021, Tracey has moved into the alt-ac world for a term position, while also teaching in the English Department at the University of Victoria.

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.

Janelle Jenstad Janelle Jenstad JJ

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).

Martin D. Holmes Martin D. Holmes MDH

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.