License Your Edition for Publication

Prior Reading

This documentation assumes that you are familiar with the principles of LEMDO’s handshake model of inclusion and know how to link to LEMDO documents:

Rationale

For your edition to be included in an anthology release, you must correctly license the files that you wish to publish, your edition page must link to each file that you wish to publish, and your Anthology Lead(s) must include your edition in the anthology’s [anth].xml file. This documentation explains what editors must do during each step of the licensing process. (For more information on how Anthology Leads include editions in anthologies, see Practice: Include Editions for Release.)

Practice: Include Files in Your Edition

To include files in your edition and have them appear on your edition’s landing page, you must add links to them in your emdABBR_edition.xml file. For detailed information on how to encode a list of files for inclusion, see Practice: Encode the Notes Statement.
If you are publishing a partial edition (e.g., if you are publishing your semi-diplomatic transcription, modernized text, collation, textual annotations, and bibliography in the Peer-Review anthology and plan to publish the remaining components of your edition later), do not include the files that you do not wish to publish in that partial release. You can add them in at a later date.

Practice: License Your Edition for Inclusion in an Anthology

In addition to including the files that you wish to publish in your edition page, you must license each file for inclusion in your publishing anthology (or anthologies) and for inclusion in LEMDO. You must also license your emdABBR_edition.xml file. To do so, follow these steps:
In the <teiHeader> of each file, find the <publicationStmt> element.
The <publicationStmt> element should have a child <availability> element. To the <availability> element, add a child <licence> element (note that the element name uses the Canadian and British spelling).
Add a @from attribute to the <licence> element.
Give the @from attribute a value of the planned date for your anthology’s next release. If you are uncertain about the date, contact your Anthology Lead(s). LEMDO uses ISO format (yyyy-mm-dd) for dates.
Add a @resp attribute to the <licence> element.
Give the @resp attribute a value of "pers:" followed by your xml:id. If you do not know your xml:id value, you can find it by searching for your name in the LEMDO Personography.
Add a @corresp attribute to the <licence> element.
Give the @corresp attribute a value of "anth:" followed by your anthology’s identifier. A list of anthology identifiers is available in the table below.
Add a second <licence> element. Give it the same values as before, though this one’s @corresp value should be "anth:lemdo". This licenses it for inclusion in LEMDO as a whole.
Correctly encoded <licence> elements will look like this:
<publicationStmt>
  <publisher><!-- … --></publisher>
  <availability>
    <licence from="2025-03-10" resp="pers:PEEE1" corresp="anth:anth"/>
    <licence from="2025-03-10" resp="pers:PEEE1" corresp="anth:lemdo"/>
    <p><!-- … --></p>
  </availability>
</publicationStmt>

Anthology Identifiers for Licensing
Anthology Name Identifier
Digital Renaissance Editions DRE1
Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project DOUA1
MoEML Mayoral Shows moms
New Internet Shakespeare Editions NISE1
Queen’s Men Editions QME1

Inclusion in an Anthology

Once you have correctly included and licensed the files for your edition, your Anthology Lead(s) can include your edition in the anthology using an import instruction in their [anth].xml file. You will work together to determine when your edition is ready to be included and published in a new release of the anthology.

Other Resources

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.

PLACEHOLDER PERSON

Sofia Spiteri

Sofia Spiteri is currently completing her Bachelor of Arts in History at the University of Victoria. During the summer of 2023, she had the opportunity to work with LEMDO as a recipient of the Valerie Kuehne Undergraduate Research Award (VKURA). Her work with LEMDO primarily includes semi-diplomatic transcriptions for The Winter’s Tale and Mucedorus.

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 License Your Edition for Publication
Type of text Documentation
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.