LEMDO Ethos: Workflow

Rationale

LEMDO has developed workflows to ensure our ethos are promoted at every level of the project. This document outlines the workflows that we have established to support specific areas of our ethos.

Training

LEMDO recognizes that we are all learners. All of our team members have the right to receive all necessary training to complete their work. To this end:
LEMDO provides training for newly hired members.
LEMDO provides new team members with detailed documentation that has been carefully developed, and constantly updated, with the various expertise levels in mind.
LEMDO assigns senior members to work with junior team members to help with training and to answer questions as they arise. If the assigned senior member is not available, the new member may speak to any other member of the team, so long as they are available and qualified to address their questions.
LEMDO publishes documentation and training material.
LEMDO allows for people to move to another part of the project, either to mobilize their skills more effectively or to learn something new, so long as all the people involved in the change agree.
LEMDO provides a team environment where individuals are available to train each other as needed. For example, if we have an expert technical writer on the team, and another individual is interested in such skill, the technical writer will provide training and support to the person interested in learning.
LEMDO encourages team members to post questions to the general channel of the team’s virtual working space (Microsoft Teams for example), especially if the rest of the team would benefit from the conversation.

Teamwork

We know that teamwork is key to the project’s success. To promote a strong team environment:
LEMDO embraces the diversity of skills and backgrounds represented by the team members.
LEMDO treats various skills as equally important and valuable to the project (including but not limited to computational, digital, scholarly, editorial, bibliographical, historical, geographical, textual, financial, and managerial skills).
The Project Director and Project Manager ensure that participants have appropriate time and opportunity to report on their work, raise questions, and contribute to discussion of issues in team meetings. The Project Manager calls for agenda items in advance of meetings and pre-circulates the agenda. The Project Director chairs team meetings.
The Project Director makes sure that the person most qualified to address an issue is the one to lead the discussion. For example, the expert on documentation will address documentation questions/issues, unless they ask for support in the matter.
The Project Director monitors the team to make sure no one person manages or directs other team members, unless specifically required to do so by their job description.
LEMDO asks team members to give respectful and constructive feedback. Feedback and commentary are not opportunities to shame people or abuse one’s position in the university’s hierarchy.

Student Success

Both academic and professional student success is key to the project’s success. To ensure student success:
LEMDO accommodates students’ interests in particular skills through flexibility in role distribution.
LEMDO prioritizes the education of student team members. In cases of a conflict between the requirements of their education (classes, urgent deadlines, meetings with professors or TAs) and the requirements of their work, LEMDO encourages students to prioritize their schooling.

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.

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: Workflow
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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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