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).

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 The collection includes: 1. A list of simple field types for each record type with internal codes and occurrences 2. A list of simple field types, pointer fields and relationship marker fields for each record type with internal codes and occurrences 3. Structure of the database schema in table format 4.Database schema definitions exchange file including a list of each record and constraints on its values 5. aaDH Presentation Slides Searle and Johnson PDF of slides from the conference presentation given by Alison Searle and Ian Johnson entitled, ‘Creating a Database of Religious Nonconformity and Performance in Britain c. 1620-1680’, Digital Humanities Australasia, ‘Expanding Horizons’, University of Western Australia, 17-21 March 2014. These explain the structure of the database schema and include an entity relationship diagram setting out the thinking that underlies the prototype database schema developed in Heurist. This research was supported under Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects funding scheme (project number DE120101591).