REED London: Phase 1
The first phase of the REED London project (2018-2022) focused on transliterating and encoding the Records of Early English Drama's first London-centric print collections.
Much of this early tagging was experimental: with dual focus on structural and semantic encoding. The purpose was not to replicate the work in a diplomatic sense, but rather as a new way to read the collections -- interleaving the records and the editorial apparatus as much as possible, and capturing entity information about people, places, and organizations referred to in the collections.
The Inns of Court collection, edited by Alan Nelson and John R. Elliott, Jr., appeared in print in 2010.
Read the introductory essays from the print edition:
The records can be viewed in REED London as organized in the print collection.
The Ecclesiastical London collection, edited by Mary Ehrler, appeared in print in 2008.
Read the introductory essays from the print edition:
The records can be viewed in REED London as organized in the print collection.
The Civic London to 1558 collection, edited by Anne Lancashire with David J. Parkinson (asst ed), appeared in print in 2015.
Read the introductory essays from the print edition:
The records can be viewed in REED London as organized in the print collection.
REED London: Phase 2
The second phase of the project (2022-2023) concentrated on revealing kinds of information that could be revealed through encoding. This led to rich collaborative research projects in their own right, focusing on the stories behind the records and the records as data that can be leveraged and revealed through linking via the Semantic web.
REED London: Phase 3
The third phase of REED London (2023-Current) concentrates work on experimental analysis and presentation of the 'legacy' records from the three print collections with chronicle texts, collaborative research projects with colleagues in the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (LINCS), and the Map of Early Modern London.
We are also experimenting with new ways to understand how the historical data within the records can be remixed, such as the Worshipful Companies collection, and how we can use the records to tell stories (see Events).