Praxis Updates

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¶Introduction

This page documents updates made to Praxis to help research assistants and contributors keep track of shifting project guidelines and protocols.

¶Since v.6.6 (June 2021)

¶Since v.6.5 (September 2020)

Create a MoEML TEI Header

Date updated: June 2021
Updated by: KL
Audience: Encoders
Description: Documentation added on how to add responsibility statements to born digital documents. Documentation updated on how to add responsibility statements to primary-source documents.
Section(s) added: <respStmt> in Born-Digital Documents

Encode Style

Date created: June 2021
Created by: KL
Audience: Encoders
Description: Documentation for encoders to teach them how to style primary source texts and do basic CSS. Some sections taken and moved from General Encoding Practices.
Section(s) added: Introduction, TEI verses CSS, Use TEI to Style a Text, Use CSS to Style a Text, Use the <rendition> Element and @rendition Attribute, Standardized Renditions, Style Survey of London

Quickstart: Adding Places

Date updated: June 2021
Updated by: KL
Audience: Encoders
Description: Documentation added on citing sources in location articles and abstracts.
Section(s) added: Citing Sources

Link Content to Pages and Databases

Date updated: January 2021
Updated by: MH
Audience: Encoders
Description: Documentation added on linking to a MoEML page as a bibliographic item within another MoEML page.
Section(s) added: Link to Cited MoEML Content

Encode a Library Text

Date created: January 2021
Created by: KL
Audience: Encoders
Description: Documentation for encoders about how to transcribe and encode library texts based on the new standards developed in late 2020.
Section(s) added: Introduction, Transcribe a Library Text, Encode a Library Text, Style a Library Text, Tag a Library Text

Quickstart: Adding People

Date created: October 2020
Created by: KL
Audience: New encoders
Description: Documentation for new encoders to learn how to add people from Survey of London to PERS1.xml. Encoders should read Encode Persons once they understand the basics.
Section(s) added: Introduction, Lord Mayors and Sheriffs, Families, Member of a Livery Company, Unknown Person, Possibly the same person?, Latin Epitaphs, Common Mistakes

Quickstart: Adding Places

Date created: October 2020
Created by: LS
Audience: New encoders
Description: Documentation for enew ncoders to learn how to add new location articles.
Section(s) added: Introduction, Determining whether to Add a Place, Creating New Location Documents, Rerouting Closely Related Places, Adding Temporal Data, Researching Locations and Writing Abstracts

Quickstart: Adding Organizations

Date created: October 2020
Created by: KL
Audience: New encoders
Description: Documentation for new encoders to learn how to add organizations from Survey of London to ORGS1.xml.
Section(s) added: Introduction, Lesser Livery Companies, Other Early Modern Organizations and Offices

Quickstart: Tagging Survey of London

Date created: October 2020
Created by: KL
Audience: New encoders
Description: Documentation for new encoders to learn the basics of marking up Survey of London.
Section(s) added: Introduction, Tagging Bibliographical Codes, Tagging Dates, Organizations, Toponyms, and People, Common Mistakes

Quickstart: Introduction to Markup

Date created: October 2020
Created by: KL
Audience: New encoders
Description: Documentation for new encoders to learn about markup. The Project Manager should send this documentation to new hires prior to their first day.
Section(s) added: Introduction, What is Markup?, Terminology, MoEML’s Markup Language, Exercises in Oxygen

Quickstart: Getting Started

Date created: October 2020
Created by: KL
Audience: New encoders
Description: Documentation for new encoders to learn about the project and how they will work. The Project Manager should send this documentation to new hires prior to their first day.
Section(s) added: Introduction, Learn about the Project, Working, Team Communication, Project Management Software, Tools for Remote Work, Set up your Workstation, Update and Commit Files, Research Hygiene and Daily Routine

Cite this page

MLA citation

LeBere, Kate. Praxis Updates. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 05 May 2022, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/praxis_updates.htm.

Chicago citation

LeBere, Kate. Praxis Updates. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed May 05, 2022. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/praxis_updates.htm.

APA citation

LeBere, K. 2022. Praxis Updates. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 7.0). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/7.0/praxis_updates.htm.

RIS file (for RefMan, RefWorks, EndNote etc.)

Provider: University of Victoria
Database: The Map of Early Modern London
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TEI citation

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