LEMDO Ethos: Guiding Principles

Rationale

Para1The following principles underlie our entire project Ethos. These are what we go back to when making decisions.

Principles

As an academic project, funded by SSHRC, and staffed by students at various stages of their studies, LEMDO is committed to the ongoing learning and development of its members.
LEMDO acknowledges that every member of the team has and will develop specific areas of expertise and interest.
LEMDO acknowledges that a large digital project requires many domains of expertise. All this expertise is equally necessary to the ultimate achievement of the project outcomes.
LEMDO acknowledges that we are all learners. We take the time to teach each other the things we have learned in the course of our work.
LEMDO is committed to giving credit where credit is due.
Our team structure is flat.
All team members are free to assume particular tasks and redefine their roles. All team members take responsibility for identifying gaps between how things are and how they could be. We then work together to realize the possibilities we envision. (See Jenstad and Takeda 2018.)

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

Jenstad, Janelle, and Joey Takeda. Making the RA Matter: Pedagogy, Interface, and Practices. Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities. Ed. Jentery Sayers. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2018.

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.

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Authority title LEMDO Ethos: Guiding Principles
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Publisher University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform
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Written by Janelle Jenstad
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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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