A prototype database schema developed in Heurist enabling performance events and bibliographical entities to be interrogated in an integrated software environment, created as part of the ARC DECRA-funded project Religious Nonconformity and Performance in Britain (c. 1620-1680)

Abstract

This prototype database schema was co-created by Alison Searle and Ian Johnson utilising the open-source software, Heurist (HeuristScholar.org) between June 2012 and March 2014 to model a unique network of relationships within the data collected for the ARC DECRA-funded project Religious Nonconformity and Performance in Britain (c. 1620-1680). It is based upon and exemplifies the model of entities (including agents, bibliographical and performative works, artefacts, events, groups and persons) and relationships that are central to the project’s interrogation of religious nonconformity and dramatic performance in seventeenth-century Britain.