Encode Document Status

Rationale

The status of a document determines a number of things:
The schema and schematron requirements that the document must meet to be valid
whether we can publish the document
what date we record as the date of publication
if LEMDOʼs processing should add a label indicating that the document is peer reviewed
As a document moves through the stages of remediation, encoding, peer review, proofing, and publishing, we track its movement via dated <change> elements in the <revisionDesc> . This information is also useful to the LEMDO team for tracking our progress.

Practice

Every encoded file should have a <revisionDesc> . This element should contain an @status attribute that documents the current stage of the fileʼs encoding process.
LEMDO’s predefined document status values are listed in the table below.
Value of @status Description
prgGenerated The document has been programmatically converted from IML to LEMDO TEI P5 via a series of transformations. The file is a .xml file.
IML-TEI There are stray IML tags in these texts that we retain until we have proofed the TEI. If the file is a semi-diplomatic transcription, the IML may have been checked by an ISE editor but LEMDO has not yet checked it.
IML-TEI_INP The programmatic conversion is in the process of being carefully checked by a LEMDO research assistant. The file is a .xml file.
IML-TEI_proofed The programmatic conversion has been carefully checked by a LEMDO research assistant. The file is a .xml file. The transcription has been carefully checked and corrected by a LEMDO RA against an open-access digital surrogate.
TCP-TEI The text has been programmatically converted from TCP TEI P4 to LEMDO TEI (P5) via a series of transformations. The file is a .xml file. The transcription is only as correct as the underlying TCP transcription (which contains gaps, errors, and normalized long s characters). The TCP metadata is retained.
TCP-TEI_INP The text has been programmatically converted from TCP TEI P4 to LEMDO TEI (P5) via a series of transformations. The file is in the process of being carefully corrected and proofed by a LEMDO Research Assistant. The file is a .xml file.
TCP-TEI_proofed The text has been programmatically converted from TCP TEI P4 to LEMDO TEI (P5) via a series of transformations and carefully corrected and proofed by a LEMDO Research Assistant. The file is a .xml file. The transcription has been corrected; gaps have been supplied; the long s has been restored. The TEI tagging has been checked and corrected by a LEMDO RA.
TEI_INP The text is being encoded in TEI.
TEI_proofed The text is finished in TEI and proofed.
published Files that have been published.
converted Files that have been converted
draft Files that are being drafted.
empty Files that are empty.
deprecated This document is no longer relevant, but is being preserved for archival purposes.

Note

Note: Files in /main/ should not have the status “empty” or “draft”. They all contain converted text. Eventually, these files might have the status published or deprecated.

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.

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