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In my previous blog post, I proposed a model TEI-XML tree for encoding and geocoding bibliographic datasets. In the conclusion of that piece, I suggested that, in order to implement such a model, print historians must pool their resources and expertise through collaborative data mining and sharing. Over the past year (to search, analyze, and contribute to a visualization of the early modern print and manuscript network
. As I suggested in my first blog post, print historians have hitherto been unable to extract meaningful geographic data points from the
260
in MARC-tagged database entries) remain unparsed. Record number 006182591
served as my former example:
260 |a London : |b Printed by Thomas Creede, for Tho. Millington, and Iohn Busby. And are to be sold at his house in Carter Lane, next the Powle head, |c 1600.
260|b
contains the printer’s name, the booksellers’ names, and the bookshop location, each undemarcated. To surmount this technical barrier and realize the full potential of 260|b
of 006182591
into the following XML code:
From this initial mark-up, it becomes apparent that book imprints, though pointing to one location of print activity (i.e., a single set of supposed geo-coordinates), contain multiple toponyms. Each toponym expresses a different level of spatial precision (e.g., his house
is more precise than Carter Lane
). Moreover, the spatial hierarchies between toponyms are expressed by way of locational prepositions. depiction or analysis of the way the constituent parts of something interact, or of their arrangement in relation to one another
(geography of the book
emerges from the intersection of relations between toponyms and names associated with a book, expressed in a book imprint.
Dr. Eichmann has been kind enough to share his parsed imprint data with
I would like to suggest that the fifth and final database, which cross-references data contained in the other databases, holds enormous potential for early modern print historians interested in the geography of the book. As I mentioned in my first blog post, in order to interact meaningfully with the burgeoning field of geohumanities, print historians need to be able to make large-scale queries about
This first XML element essentially states that, according to 109143
141029
, etc., stationer 16665
in the in
location 1624
in the Francis Cole’s Shop in Vine Street
. Further research would then be required to match this qualitative description of a place with the quantitative coordinates of its geographic space, for example, on the Agas map or another georeferenced surface.
The second XML element similarly suggests that, according to 89376
and 188336
, stationer 14575
in the at
location 7562
in the John Rothwell’s Shop at the Sign of the Sun
, or simply The Sign of the Sun
. Because there were many places in early modern London demarcated by the sign of the sun, one would need to consult the fourth database, which contains relations among location identities, to determine that this sign of the Sun
was located in St. Paul’s Churchyard. Further research could then determine the spatial coordinates that correlated with this qualitative description of a place.
A wealth of information is embedded in the syntax of book imprints.