LEMDO: Encode the Publication Statement in Your Metadata

Encode the Publication Statement in Your Metadata

Rationale

LEMDO uses the


                                          <publicationStmt>

element to licence editions and provide information about their availability. This documentation will guide you through the basic process of encoding your publication statement and will direct you towards additional documentation for encoding specific child elements of the


                                          <publicationStmt>

element.

Contents of the Publication Statement

While each anthology may determine the exact wording and requirements for their


                                          <publicationStmt>

elements, the basic structure of elements is shared across all LEMDO anthologies and LEMDO has suggested wording that our anthologies typically follow. Regardless of which anthology you are working with, your


                                          <publicationStmt>

will contain the following child elements:

One


                                                <publisher>

element: Use the


                                                <publisher>

element to indicate the institution publishing and hosting your edition.

One


                                                <availability>

element: The


                                                <availability>

element contains child elements that hold information about the licensing that your edition is under:

Two


                                                      <licence>

elements: Use the


                                                      <licence>

element to indicate the publication date after which your edition is licensed, to link copyright over the content of the file to yourself using your xml:id, and to specify each anthology that you are licensing your edition with. One


                                                      <licence>

element will license your edition for your anthology, the other will license your edition for the LEMDO project. For information on encoding the


                                                      <licence>

element, see License Your Edition for Publication.

One or more

<p>

elements: Use the

<p>

element to provide the specific availability information following the wording provided by your anthology. For information about encoding the narrative licensing information for your edition using the

<p>

element, see License Your Edition and its Component Files.

Practice: Encode the Publisher Element

Type the name of the institution hosting your edition directly in the text node of the


                                          <publisher>

element. In most cases, anthologies follow LEMDO’s recommended wording for the publisher element: “University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform”. Do not include terminal punctuation in the


                                          <publisher>

element.

Step-by-Step: Encode the Availability Element

Follow these steps to encode your


                                          <availability>

element:

Add a


                                                <licence>

element with a


                                             @from

value of the expected publication date for your edition, a


                                             @resp

value of "pers:" followed by your xml:id, and a


                                             @corresp

value of "anth:" followed by the abbreviation for your anthology given in lowercase letters.

Add a second


                                                <licence>

element with the same


                                             @from

and


                                             @resp

values and a


                                             @corresp

value of "anth:lemdo".

Add a

<p>

element. Add the wording required by your anthology to the text node, replacing generic


                                                <persName>

elements with your own name and xml:id.

Examples

The following is the standard template for the


                                          <publicationStmt>

element recommended by LEMDO:

<publicationStmt>
  <publisher>University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform</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>Intellectual copyright in this edition is held by the editor, . Copyright on the TEI-XML markup is held by the <orgName ref="org:UVIC1">University of Victoria</orgName> on behalf of the <orgName ref="org:LEMD1">LEMDO Team</orgName>. The content and TEI-XML markup in this file are licensed under a <ref target="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">CC BY-NC_ND 4.0 license</ref>. This file is freely downloadable without permission under the following conditions: (1) credit must be given to the editor, , and LEMDO in any subsequent use of the files and /or data; (2) this availability statement must remain in the file; (3) the content cannot be adapted or repurposed (except for quotations for the purposes of academic review and citation); and (4) commercial uses are not permitted without the knowledge and consent of the editor, , and LEMDO. Neither the content nor the code in this file is licensed for training large language models (LLMs), ingestion into an LLM, or any use in any artificial intelligence applications; such uses are considered to be commercial uses and are strictly prohibited.</p>
  </availability>
</publicationStmt>

Special Case: Encode the Publication Statement for staticSearch

LEMDO uses a staticSearch engine. Each anthology will have a staticSearch file that corresponds to its search page. One of the ways that we give credit to staticSearch is by using the staticSearchGenerator license in the publication statement of our search pages.

Use the following publication statement in your anthology’s search file:

<publicationStmt>
  <publisher>University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform</publisher>
  <availability>
    <licence from="2023-10-31" resp="pers:HOLM1" corresp="anth:qme"/>
    <licence from="2023-10-31" resp="pers:HOLM1" corresp="anth:lemdo"/>
    <p>projectEndings/staticSearch is licensed under a <ref target="https://github.com/projectEndings/staticSearch/blob/dev/LICENSE">Mozilla Public License 2.0</ref> and under a <ref target="https://github.com/projectEndings/staticSearch/blob/dev/license_BSD.txt">BSD license</ref>. </p>
  </availability>
</publicationStmt>

(Replace qme in the first


                                          <licence>

element with the abbreviation for your anthology.)

Other Resources

LEMDO YouTube video: Putting It All Together (Editorial)

LEMDO YouTube video: Putting It All Together (Technical)

Prosopography

Illya

Illya has a BA in English and Sociocultural Anthropology and an MA in English. Prior to joining the HCMC, he was a PhD candidate in English and Book History at the University of Toronto and worked on Records of Early English Drama and on the Modernist Archives Publishing Project. His work at the HCMC focuses on creating web-based applications for research projects led by members of the faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria. This involves creating schemas for new and existing datasets, writing XSLT and build files to transform datasets into structured TEI and HTML formats, implementing staticSearch, and ensuring that new projects are Endings Principles compliant.

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 Beatrice 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

Samuel Seaberg

Samuel Seaberg, a University of Victoria English undergrad, enjoys riding his bike. During the summer of 2025, he began working with LEMDO as a recipient of the Valerie Kuehne Undergraduate Research Award (VKURA). Unfortunately, due to his summer being spent primarily in working to establish an edition of Thomas Heywood’s If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, Part 2 and consequently working out how to represent multi-text works in a digital space, his bike has suffered severely of sheltered seclusion from the sun. Note: Samuel now works for LEMDO as the Assistant Project Manager, much to his bike’s chagrin.

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.

University of Victoria (UVIC1)

https://www.uvic.ca/

Metadata

Authority title	Encode the Publication Statement in Your Metadata
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.