LEMDO: Encode Responsibility Statements

Encode Responsibility Statements

Prior Reading

Encode the Title Statement in Your Metadata

Rationale

We give credit to the contributors of each file using a series of responsibility statements. This documentation gives information on the critical practice of giving credit where it is due with the


                                          <respStmt>

element in the metadata of each file.

Practice: Who to Give Credit To

You will encode a series of


                                          <respStmt>

elements in the


                                          <titleStmt>

at the top of each of your files. Each file will contain at least four


                                          <respStmt>

elements giving credit to:

Yourself as editor (or, depending on file type, author, collator, or compiler)

The LEMDO team for their collective work either encoding or converting and remediating your files

Yourself as copyright holder over editorial content

The University of Victoria as copyright holder over the XML and interface

In addition to these four


                                          <respStmt>

elements, you may wish to give credit to other contributors such as research assistants.

In your edition page only, you will also add a


                                          <respStmt>

for each of your anthology leads. If your edition was peer-reviewed by someone that has agreed to be credited publicly, you will also give them a


                                          <respStmt>

in your edition page.

In your edition page, your modernized text, and your semi-diplomatic transcription, you will also add a


                                          <respStmt>

for the author of your text.

Semi-diplomatic transcriptions are a special case. In addition to giving credit to the author of the play, you will add a


                                          <respStmt>

element for:

At least one transcriber

At least one individual encoder

The LEMDO team for batch changes and metadata

The LEMDO team member who proofread the encoding of the semi-diplomatic transcription

Yourself as peer reviewer

The University of Victoria as the copyright holder over the transcription

The University of Victoria as the copyright holder over the XML and interface

Practice

Each


                                          <respStmt>

has two child elements:


                                          <resp>

and one of either


                                          <persName>


                                          <orgName>

. Note that we do not use the


                                          <name>

element.

The


                                          <resp>

element is for stating the role of each contributor. LEMDO generally uses the standard vocabulary from the Library of Congress’s MARC Code List for Relators to define each contributor’s role. For a full list of the roles that we allow in our


                                          <resp>

elements, see Responsibilities Taxonomy. To encode the


                                          <resp>

element:

Add a


                                             @ref

attribute to the


                                                <resp>

element.

For the value of the


                                             @ref

attribute, add a "resp:" prefix followed by the appropriate value from the


                                                @xml:id

column in the Responsibility Values table.

In the text node of the


                                                <resp>

element, add the contributor’s role. In most cases, this will be the name that corresponds with the responsibility value that you used.

Use the


                                          <persName>

element when giving credit to an individual contributor. To encode the


                                          <persName>

element:

Add a


                                             @ref

attribute to the


                                                <persName>

element.

For the value of the


                                             @ref

attribute, add a "pers:" prefix if the person is an editorial, encoding, or technical contributor (i.e., editors, anthology leads, RAs, programmers, etc.) or a "pros:" if the person is a historical figure (i.e., authors, booksellers, publishers, printers, etc.).

After the prefix in the value of the


                                             @ref

attribute, put the contributor’s xml:id. If you are uncertain of their xml:id, check our Personography (for current contributors) or Prosopography (for historical people).

In the text node of the


                                                <persName>

element, add the contributor’s full name.

Use the


                                          <orgName>

element when giving credit to a group or organization. To encode the


                                          <orgName>

element:

Add a


                                             @ref

attribute to the


                                                <orgName>

element.

For the value of the


                                             @ref

attribute, add an "org:" prefix followed by the group or organization’s xml:id. If you are uncertain of its xml:id, check our Orgography.

Practice: Encode Responsibility Statements for Copyright Holders

LEMDO adds two separate


                                          <respStmt>

elements for copyright holders. The first states the person who retains intellectual rights (licensed under a CC BY-SA NC license) over the text. The second states that the University of Victoria retains intellectual rights over the markup used in the file.

Both


                                          <respStmt>

elements for copyright holders are encoded by putting the


                                       @ref

attribute and "resp:cph" value on the


                                          <resp>

element. The distinction between the two is made in the text node of the


                                          <resp>

element: for textual copyright holders, add (Content) at the end of the text node; for markup copyright holders, add (XML and interface) at the end of the text node.

Practice: Give Credit to the LEMDO Team

LEMDO credits the LEMDO team as a whole for their work encoding, converting, and remediating files. Because the LEMDO team works on every file that is published, they are credited in each file. To give credit to the LEMDO team:

Add a


                                                <respStmt>

element at the end of your list of responsibility statements.

Give a value of "resp:edt_mrk" on the


                                             @ref

attribute on the


                                                <resp>

element.

If your file was converted from IML, put Conversion and Remediation in the text node of the


                                                <resp>

element.

If your file was encoded for the first time in TEI (i.e., it was not converted from IML), put Encoder in the text node of the


                                                <resp>

element.

Put an


                                                <orgName>

element after the


                                                <resp>

element.

Give a value of "org:LEMD1" on the


                                             @ref

attribute on the


                                                <orgName>

element.

In the text node of the


                                                <orgName>

element, put LEMDO Team.

Examples

The following is an example of a series of responsibility statements in a critical paratext:

<titleStmt>
  <title type="main">Title</title>
  <respStmt>
    <resp ref="resp:aut">Author</resp>
    <persName ref="pers:PEEE1">Author of Critical Paratext</persName>
  </respStmt>
  <respStmt>
    <resp ref="resp:cph">Copyright Holder (Content)</resp>
    <persName ref="pers:PEEE1">Editor Name</persName>
  </respStmt>
  <respStmt>
    <resp ref="resp:cph">Copyright Holder (XML and interface)</resp>
    <orgName ref="org:UVIC1">University of Victoria</orgName>
  </respStmt>
  <respStmt>
    <resp ref="resp:edt_mrk">Encoder</resp>
    <orgName ref="org:LEMD1">LEMDO Team</orgName>
  </respStmt>
</titleStmt>

The following is an example of a series of responsibility statements in a modernized text:

The following is an example of a series of responsibility statements in an edition page:

<titleStmt>
  <title type="main">Title</title>
  <respStmt>
    <resp ref="resp:edt">Editor</resp>
    <persName ref="pers:PEEE1">Editor Name</persName>
  </respStmt>
  <respStmt>
    <resp ref="resp:edt_coord">Coordinating Editor</resp>
    <persName ref="pers:PEEE1">Anthology Lead Name</persName>
  </respStmt>
  <respStmt>
    <resp ref="resp:cph">Copyright Holder (Editorial content)</resp>
    <persName ref="pers:PEEE1">Editor Name</persName>
  </respStmt>
  <respStmt>
    <resp ref="resp:cph">Copyright Holder (XML and interface)</resp>
    <orgName ref="org:UVIC1">University of Victoria</orgName>
  </respStmt>
  <respStmt>
    <resp ref="resp:vet">Peer Reviewer</resp>
    <persName ref="pers:PEEE1">Peer Reviewer Name</persName>
  </respStmt>
  <respStmt>
    <resp ref="resp:edt_mrk">Encoder</resp>
    <orgName ref="org:LEMD1">LEMDO Team</orgName>
  </respStmt>
</titleStmt>

The following is an example of a series of responsibility statements in an edition page:

<titleStmt>
  <title type="main">Title</title>
  <respStmt>
    <resp ref="resp:aut">Author</resp>
    <persName ref="pros:PRRR1">Author Name</persName>
  </respStmt>
  <respStmt>
    <resp ref="resp:trc">Transcriber</resp>
    <persName ref="pers:PEEE1">Transcriber Name</persName>
  </respStmt>
  <respStmt>
    <resp ref="resp:edt_mrk">Encoder</resp>
    <persName ref="pers:PEEE1">Encoder Name</persName>
  </respStmt>
  <respStmt>
    <resp ref="resp:edt_mrk">Batch Changes and Metadata</resp>
    <orgName ref="org:LEMD1">LEMDO Team</orgName>
  </respStmt>
  <respStmt>
    <resp ref="resp:pfr">Proofreader</resp>
    <persName ref="pers:PEEE1">Proofreader Name</persName>
  </respStmt>
  <respStmt>
    <resp ref="resp:vet">Peer Reviewer</resp>
    <persName ref="pers:PEEE1">Editor Name or Other Peer Reviewer</persName>
  </respStmt>
  <respStmt>
    <resp ref="resp:cph">Copyright Holder (Content)</resp>
    <persName ref="pers:UVIC1">University of Victoria</persName>
  </respStmt>
  <respStmt>
    <resp ref="resp:cph">Copyright Holder (XML and interface)</resp>
    <orgName ref="org:UVIC1">University of Victoria</orgName>
  </respStmt>
</titleStmt>

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 HISTORICAL PERSON

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.

Si Micari-Lawless

Si Micari-Lawless is a research assistant with LEMDO and MoEML, and an incoming fourth-year English major at the University of Victoria.

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 Responsibility Statements
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.