A Platform for Editing and Encoding Early Modern Plays
About LEMDO
LEMDO (Linked Early Modern Drama Online) is a TEI encoding, editing, and anthology-building
platform for Early Modern Drama. The platform is designed to host individual editions,
editorial projects, anthologies, and documentation. LEMDO was partnered with the Database
of Early English Playbooks (DEEP), the Bibliography of Editions of Early English Drama
(BEEED), the Early Modern England Encyclopedia (EMEE), Digital Renaissance Editions
(DRE), the Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE), and the Queenʼs Men Editions (QME),
and the MoEML Mayoral Shows anthology (MoMS) via a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant.
LEMDO was conceived by Director and PI Janelle Jenstad (Department of English, University
of Victoria). The digital infrastructure was co-created with Lead Programmer Martin
Holmes (Humanities Computing and Media Centre), Consulting Programmer Joseph Takeda
(Simon Fraser University), and Junior Programmer Tracey El Hajj (University of Victoria).
All editions prepared using LEMDO tools will be Endings-compliant and ready for long-term digital preservation.
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.
Joey Takeda
Joey Takeda is LEMDO’s Consulting Programmer and Designer, a role he
assumed in 2020 after three years as the Lead Developer on
LEMDO.
Metadata
| Authority title | |
| Type of text | Landing |
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Born digital.
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LEMDO TeamThe 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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| Encoding description | Encoded in TEI P5 according to the LEMDO Customization and Encoding Guidelines. |
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| License/availability |