Schema for John Locke's Correspondents.

This schema describes the data and metadata structure behind my article, "John Locke Likes This: An Ego-Network Analysis of Locke's Letters". The schema describes the different data and metadata categories in the data set, and details not only the value ranges each field can contain but also some explanations of and justifications for those value ranges and the decisions I made in constructing them. It also includes miscellaneous caveats as to the data's construction. Some of the data is incomplete; I have chosen to leave some data carpentry undone. This will allow other researchers leeway to massage the data into the shapes that best suit their purposes. Since those purposes are as yet unknown, some data fields (dates, for example) are more raw than others.

This schema was compiled with extensive reliance on Electronic Enlightenment, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and the journal Locke Studies.