Introduction to Editions and Licensing

This chapter is designed for both editors and anthology leads to learn about how editions are licensed for inclusion in anthologies. Anthology leads can find more information written specifically for them in Chapter 20. Anthology Customization.

Learning Outcomes

By the time you have worked through every section of this chapter, you will:
Understand how editions are included in anthologies using LEMDO’s handshake model of inclusion.
Know how to license the files in your edition for publication.
Become familiar with the standard structure and organization of edition directories.
Be able to encode your edition page (emdABBR_edition.xml).

LEMDO Editions

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 (2025), 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.

Contents

Section Description
The Handshake Model of Inclusion Learn about how your edition will be included in an anthology
License Your Edition for Publication Learn how to license your edition for publication
Edition Directories Learn about the structure and organization of edition directories in the LEMDO repository
Encode Your Edition Page Learn how to encode your edition page

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.

Mahayla Galliford

Project manager, 2025-present; research assistant, 2021-present. Mahayla Galliford (she/her) graduated with a BA (Hons with distinction) from the University of Victoria in 2024. Mahayla’s undergraduate research explored early modern stage directions and civic water pageantry. Mahayla continues her studies through UVic’s English MA program and her SSHRC-funded thesis project focuses on editing and encoding girls’ manuscripts, specifically Lady Rachel Fane’s dramatic entertainments, in collaboration with LEMDO.

Martin Holmes

Martin Holmes has worked as a developer in the UVic’s 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

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.

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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