Introduction to Editions and Anthologies

Rationale

LEMDO supports both individual editions and anthologies. For the most part, however, editions are commissioned for anthology projects. Anthologies have their own editorial boards and peer-review processes. LEMDO works with the anthology leads, and the anthology leads work with the editors they have convened for the anthology. Think of UVic as the publisher, LEMDO as the platform used to prepare and publish editions, the anthology leads as series editors, and the individual play editors as contributors to the series of editions embodied in an anthology.
LEMDO will allow editors to use the repository and tools without the editor being affiliated with an anthology if the editors are graduate students preparing projects or theses, or if the editors are a Pedagogical Partner and their students. LEMDO might liaise with the anthology leads to see if the prospective student edition might have a logical home in one of the anthologies eventually. At this point (2021), LEMDO has no plan to support multiple editions of any one play. Our key outcome is to expand the canon of teachable and performable early modern plays. One of LEMDO’s objectives, then, is to ensure that new editors work on plays that are not already under contract for one of the LEMDO anthologies.

Handshake Model of Inclusion

Editions are not automatically included in anthologies. Two things have to happen for an edition to be included in an anthology:
The edition page and all of the component files of the edition must be licensed by the author/editor for inclusion in the anthology. The license is included in the <teiHeader> of each file.
The anthology must explicitly include the edition using the lemdo-include instruction in the home page of the anthology (e.g., in qme.xml for a QME edition).
The purpose of this handshake model is to replicate in digital form the process of signing a contract. Both parties have to sign the contract for a publication to proceed. (Note that this digital handshake is usually in addition to a conventional publishing contract.)
Similarly, files are not automatically included in an edition. Three things have to happen for a file to be included in an edition:
The file must be licensed by the author/editor for inclusion in the sponsoring anthology.
The file must have the @status of "published".
The file must be listed in the edition page (e.g., emdMV_edition.xml).
Given that anthologies are published via the release model, whereby the anthology and its new content are periodically released to the public-facing website, this model makes the following publication strategies possible:
An anthology can have a web presence listing its personnel and editorial guidelines before any of the editions are commissioned or published.
An anthology can publish each edition as it is completed, rather than waiting for all editions to be complete before it publishes anything.
An individual edition can be published incrementally. By not licensing unfinished components of an edition and not including them in the edition page, the editor can hold back components of the edition that are not finished or not yet peer-reviewed. Even if the anthology includes the edition, only the finished parts of the edition will be pulled into the anthology.

Multi-anthology Publication

Editions may be included in more than one anthology, with the consent of the editor. For example, the same edition of Macbeth might be included in the New Internet Shakespeare Editions, a King’s Men anthology (should someone decide to create one), and a Middleton anthology. One objective of the LEMDO project is to enable new combinations of already-edited plays; once we have a critical mass of editions, it becomes feasible to create new anthologies that regroup and reframe plays according to various selection principles (by author, by playing company, by theatre, or even by year).

Further Reading

In addition to reading this chapter, we recommend that you read Encoding Links Between Parts of Your Edition.

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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