LEMDO Ethos

Para1Ethos: The characteristic spirit of a people, community, culture, or era as manifested in its attitudes and aspirations; the prevailing character of an institution or system (OED ethos, n. 2.a).

Rationale

Para2LEMDO strives to create and maintain an environment where everyone is treated with respect and dignity. Documenting our principles and practices is one way we create that environment. Our ethos pages describe:
The rights of the LEMDO Team and all contributors.
The guiding principles for our practices relating to those rights.
Our specific practices for ensuring those rights.
Para3LEMDO’s ethos applies to all people who are involved in the project, including university faculty, staff, affiliates, and students, at the home university of LEMDO or elsewhere.
Para4We have adapted our ethos from the Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) Project Ethos. We choose to share our Ethos publicly, in keeping with our project principle of openness. We invite other projects to adopt and adapt it. In keeping with our principle of giving credit, MoEML and LEMDO would be glad to be given credit if you do adopt or adapt this document.

Key Terms and Abbreviations

Term Definition
Accommodation The services and/or tools that can help reduce barriers and provide different ways of working.
Contributors The people and/or projects that contribute scholarly content to LEMDO but are not a part of the LEMDO Team.
HCMC Humanities Computing and Media Centre at the University of Victoria.
HUMS Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria.
Project The collaborative enterprise of LEMDO as a whole.
Project Director The overall academic lead of the project, with expertise in the big picture and with a long project memory. The Director has ultimate responsibility for financial, employment, equity, and scholarly matters; in that role, they seek advice from various offices on campus, listen to other team members, and make the tough calls when necessary.
Principal Investigator The lead applicant on a grant application. Often but not always the Project Director.
Project Manager (and Assistant Project Manager) The person(s) in charge of translating the project’s objectives into daily, weekly, and monthly tasks; tracking workflow; and assigning tasks to RAs. Often helps with grant applications. Fills in gaps in project expertise as needed.
Team Members The members of the LEMDO Team, including the Project Director(s) and Assistant Directors, Project Manager(s), Developers(s), Research Associates, Research Assistants, and any other person fulfilling a role on the LEMDO project.
Training Lead The person responsible for onboarding new RAs and training new editors.
UVic University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Prosopography

Janelle Jenstad

Janelle Jenstad is a Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and Director of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Elizabethan Theatre, Early Modern Literary Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, Renaissance and Reformation, and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She contributed chapters to Approaches to Teaching Othello (MLA); Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives (MLA); Institutional Culture in Early Modern England (Brill); Shakespeare, Language, and the Stage (Arden); Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate); New Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge); and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge). For more details, see janellejenstad.com.

Navarra Houldin

Training and Documentation Lead 2025–present. LEMDO project manager 2022–2025. Textual remediator 2021–present. Navarra Houldin (they/them) completed their BA with a major in history and minor in Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. Their primary research was on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America. They are continuing their education through an MA program in Gender and Social Justice Studies at the University of Alberta where they will specialize in Digital Humanities.

Bibliography

OED: The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Orgography

LEMDO Team (LEMD1)

The LEMDO Team is based at the University of Victoria and normally comprises the project director, the lead developer, project manager, junior developers(s), remediators, encoders, and remediating editors.

Metadata

Authority title LEMDO Ethos
Type of text About
Publisher University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform
Series Linked Early Modern Drama Online
Source
Written by Janelle Jenstad
Editorial declaration n/a
Edition Released with Linked Early Modern Drama Online 1.0
Sponsor(s)

LEMDO Team

The LEMDO Team is based at the University of Victoria and normally comprises the project director, the lead developer, project manager, junior developers(s), remediators, encoders, and remediating editors.
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Funder(s) Social Sciences and Humanities Reasearch Council of Canada
License/availability
This file is licensed under a CC BY-NC_ND 4.0 license, which means that it is freely downloadable without permission under the following conditions: (1) credit must be given to the author and LEMDO in any subsequent use of the files and/or data; (2) the content cannot be adapted or repurposed (except in quotations for the purposes of academic review and citation); and (3) commercial uses are not permitted without the knowledge and consent of the editor and LEMDO. This license allows for pedagogical use of the documentation in the classroom.