Anthologies

This documentation is for Anthology Leads (such as the Coordinating Editors of the ISE, DRE, or MoMS, or the QME General Editors).

Rationale

LEMDO supports a number of anthology projects (DRE, EMEE, ISE, MoMS, NISE, QME, and others). These anthologies are central to LEMDO’s core objective: to increase the number of teachable and performable early modern plays by creating open-access digital critical editions.

Role Divisions

The LEMDO team at UVic focuses on building the publication platform and editorial tools according to the current best practices for long-lived, light-weight, archivable websites. The anthologies focus on working with editors to prepare editions. Anthologies have their own editorial and advisory boards, their own peer review processes, and their own internal workflows. Generally, the LEMDO team will not work directly with your editors—except to help them get set up to work in the LEMDO repository—unless you invite us to liaise directly with an editor.

What’s Common to All Anthologies

All anthologies share the same TEI customization, the same underlying encoding, the same processing, the same core set of functionalities, and the same text analysis tools, in order to make texts interoperable and interchangeable between anthologies.

What’s Unique to Each Anthology

Anthologies have their own look, menus, colour schemes, and logos. Anthologies may have different methodologies. For example, QME adopts a Performance as Research (PAR) methodology. Anthologies will have their own requirements for the length, number, and scope of critical paratexts. LEMDO’s documentation flags points on which anthologies have to make a decision or can choose between options.
Each anthology will have its own role names for team members. Whatever you call yourself (General Editor, Textual Editor, Coordinating Editor), LEMDO thinks of you as an Anthology Lead.

Setting up Your Anthology

You will have a directory in the lemdo/data/anthologies directory of the LEMDO repository. Your directory is where you will create all the files pertaining to your anthology. You will also have an initialism for your anthology, entirely in lower-case letters: dre, moms, qme, and so on. Your directory’s name will be the initialism of your anthology. Examples:
Anthology Directory path
The Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project lemdo/data/anthologies/douai
DRD lemdo/data/anthologies/drd
DRE lemdo/data/anthologies/dre
EMEE lemdo/data/anthologies/EMEE
MoMS lemdo/data/anthologies/moms
NISE lemdo/data/anthologies/nise
QME lemdo/data/anthologies/qme
You may look at files created by other anthologies, but you will have write privileges only on your own anthology.

Further Reading

Readers interested in the technical aspects of building and customizing anthologies may want to read Build and Customize an Anthology in the chapter on Programming.

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.

Martin Holmes

Martin Holmes has worked as a developer in the UVicʼs Humanities Computing and Media Centre for over two decades, and has been involved with dozens of Digital Humanities projects. He has served on the TEI Technical Council and as Managing Editor of the Journal of the TEI. He took over from Joey Takeda as lead developer on LEMDO in 2020. He is a collaborator on the SSHRC Partnership Grant led by Janelle Jenstad.

Navarra Houldin

Project manager 2022–present. Textual remediator 2021–present. Navarra Houldin (they/them) completed their BA in History and Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. During their degree, they worked as a teaching assistant with the University of Victoriaʼs Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies. Their primary research was on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America.

Tracey El Hajj

Junior Programmer 2019–2020. Research Associate 2020–2021. Tracey received her PhD from the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the algorhythmics of networked communications. She was a 2019–2020 President’s Fellow in Research-Enriched Teaching at UVic, where she taught an advanced course on Artificial Intelligence and Everyday Life. Tracey was also a member of the Map of Early Modern London team, between 2018 and 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, she was a fellow in residence at the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, where she investigated the relationships between artificial intelligence, creativity, health, and justice. As of July 2021, Tracey has moved into the alt-ac world for a term position, while also teaching in the English Department at the University of Victoria.

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 Anthologies
Type of text Documentation
Short title
Publisher University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform
Series Linked Early Modern Drama Online
Source
TEI Customization created by Martin Holmes, Joey Takeda, and Janelle Jenstad; documentation written by members of the LEMDO Team
Editorial declaration n/a
Edition Released with Linked Early Modern Drama Online 1.0
Encoding description Encoded in TEI P5 according to the LEMDO Customization and Encoding Guidelines
Document status prgGenerated
Funder(s) Social Sciences and Humanities Research 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.