Wikidata:WP EMEW/Sources

Sources

Discuss

Saxton

Speed

Leland

Norden

Camden

Llywd

Smith

Bibliographies

Ogilby

Data model

Modelling discussion

Burghley Atlas

Burghley discussion

Others

External data

Sources sub-project. Part of Wikidata:WikiProject Early Modern England and Wales.

Scope

Manuscript and printed resources for understanding the constructed landscape of Early Modern England and Wales, including atlases, loose maps, itineraries, diaries, and gazetteers, as well as reference works relating to these items.

Focus list

This subproject has a WP EMEW sources-related focus list (Q107310665). To add items to the focus list, add on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008) = Q107310665.

• Simple query for all items on the /Sources focus list.
• Simple query for persons on the /Sources focus list.
• Simple query for items that are not persons on the /Sources focus list.
  • Simple query for maps on the /Sources focus list.

Immediate goal

• Have well-structured items for the major sources used by the Viae Regiae (Q105547906) project to build its Gazetteer of Early Modern England and Wales (Q105548625).
• Improve or create items for authors, cartographers, collectors, and bibliographers connected with the major sources.
• Develop a data model for Lord Burghley's Atlas (Q105468439), a unique resource combining proofs of printed maps and manuscript maps, all with hand-written annotations.

Timeline

• Improvement of source items began on 12 February 2021, and is ongoing. This task is not dependent on other activity streams.

Tasks - you can help!

See /Data modelling for best practices when adding sources

Top priority

• Improve items for key references used by the Viae Regiae project in developing their gazetteer, including a hierarchy of "work" > "edition" > "individual copy"
  • Y Create Wikidata work and edition items for John Ogilby's Britannia (1675)
  • Y Create "individual copy of book" for The itinerary in Wales of John Leland in or about the years 1536-1539 (Toronto copy) > The Itinerary in Wales of John Leland in or about the Years 1535-1543 (Q106369735)
• YDevelop a proposed data model for the maps in Lord Burghley's Atlas (PKM has claimed this task)
• Y Create items for the individual maps in Lord Burghley's Atlas (PKM has claimed this task)

Additional tasks

• Create items for significant missing manuscripts by John Leland (see catalog)
• Y Create work and edition items for Hearne and Smith's published editions of Leland’s Itinerary
• Y Create work and edition items for Britannia's Roads by Gordon C. Dickinson (Q105705502) [1]
  • and then improve Gordon C. Dickinson (Q105705502) using the introduction to Britannia's Roads
• Find scholarly articles relevant to this project and make sure they have main subject (P921) statements. Include the cartographer as a "main subject".
  • Query of articles published in Imago Mundi (Q4041305) [2]
• Create/improve edition/exemplar items for early copies of Saxton's Atlas (list at Christopher Saxton/has works in the collection):
  • BNF 1579 copy of Saxton's Atlas
  • Glasgow copy of Saxton's Atlas
  • US LOC/Rosenwald copies of Saxton's Atlas
  • Folger copy
• Add sources info for John Norden
• Y Create work and edition items for maps in Saxton's Atlas
• Y Create items for “missing” engravers of Saxton's Atlas

Contacts and advisors

• Dr. Stephen Gadd, Viae Regiae