Edition Directories

Rationale

Your edition directory contains all of the documents produced for your edition. Each edition directory is named after its DRE Play ID, the acronym we use for the play. By having a discrete directory for each edition, we can give each editor full permission to make changes to all files related to their edition. This documentation explains how to navigate the structure of your edition’s directory and where in that directory you will add specific types of files.

Edition Directory Structure

All edition directories contain the following four folders:
app: Your app folder houses your edition’s apparatus files (i.e., your annotation and collation files).
crit: Your crit folder houses your edition’s critical paratexts (e.g., your acknowledgements; general, textual, and optional critical introductions; bibliography; and stage history). You may add a role list file to your crit folder.
main: Your main folder contains your modernized play text(s) and semi-diplomatic transcription(s).
supp: We have supp directories in many editions to accommodate the remediated legacy editions from DRE, ISE, and QME.
Some edition directories may also have one or both of these additional folders:
images
perf
In addition to the folders contained by edition directories, each edition has an edition file that resides inside the edition directory but outside of the child folders. Your edition landing page is generated from your edition file, and it lists all the files that belong to your edition and gives responsibility statements for everyone involved in the creation and oversight of your edition (including anthology leads) of the edition. For information on encoding your edition page, see Encode Your Edition Page.

Special Case: Images Folders

If your edition contains images, how you store them depends on the number of images that you are including. If you are adding three or fewer images to your edition, you must create an images folder in which to store them. Once you have created your images folder, add it to the LEMDO repository following the instructions in Practice: Add Files to the Repository.
If your edition contains four or more images, you must contact the LEMDO team to upload your images to our image server.
Regardless of where you store your images (in an images folder or on our images server), you must include all of the images that you use in your edition along with .txt files containing permissions to use those images. For more information on adding images to your edition, see Choose Image Types and Sizes.

Special Case: Paratexts

LEMDO is republishing Sonia Massai and Heidi Craig’s Early Modern Dramatic Paratexts project. The paratexts from this project are being added to the relevant edition directories. As we add these files to the repository, editors will begin to see para folders being added to their edition directories. Please leave this folder untouched.

Special Case: Performance As Research Folders

If your edition also contains production materials from performance-as-research (PAR) work, your edition directory will have a perf folder for global performance commentary (as opposed to performance annotations), production credits, and metadata for performance videos. (The videos themselves are stored elsewhere.)

Further Reading

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.

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 Edition Directories
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.