LEMDO: Encode Sponsors and Funders in Your Metadata

Encode Sponsors and Funders in Your Metadata

Prior Reading

Encode the Title Statement in Your Metadata

Rationale

We need to give credit to the anthology that commissions an edition and arranges for peer review. The work of shepherding an edition through the publication process is significant, as is the subsequent work of peer review. We also need to give credit to any funding agencies, charitable organizations, and donors who supported the work financially or materially (e.g., by making it possible to pay encoders, project managers, and contract programmers; fund performances; and purchase digital scanning services and image rights from libraries.

Practice

We capture this information using the


                                          <sponsor>

and


                                          <funder>

elements inside the


                                          <titleStmt>

(the first child element of the


                                          <profileDesc>

element—see Encode the Title Statement in Your Metadata).

Sponsoring Anthology

The


                                             <sponsor>

element goes after the last


                                             <respStmt>

element inside the


                                             <titleStmt>

. The


                                             <sponsor>

element is an empty element (i.e., it has no content in the text node). Add a


                                          @ref

attribute with the appropriate value for the anthology that commissions the edition and/or peer-reviewed or arranged for peer review of the edition. Anthologies are listed in the ORGS1 file. Current values for


                                          @ref

are:

Anthology	Value
Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project	`"DOUA1"`
Digital Restoration Drama	`"DRDR1"`
Digital Renaissance Editions	`"DRE1"`
Early Modern Dramatic Paratexts	`"EMDP1"`
Early Modern England Encyclopedia	`"EMEE1"`
Internet Shakespeare Editions	`"ISE1"`
MoEML Mayoral Shows	`"MOMS1"`
New Internet Shakespeare Editions	`"NISE1"`
Queen’s Men Editions	`"QME1"`

In some cases, commissioning and peer-reviewing has been shared by two anthologies. In these cases, you can give two


                                             <sponsor>

elements, one for each anthology. The most common case thus far appears in editions that were begun under the aegis of the Internet Shakespeare Editions and completed under the aegis of the New Internet Shakespeare Editions. It is also possible for an edition to be commissioned by one anthology and peer-reviewed by another; for example, the MoMS Coordinating Editors cannot review their own MoMS editions and have asked DRE to handle peer review.

Funders

The


                                             <funder>

element appears last in the


                                             <titleStmt>

. Unlike the


                                             <sponsor>

element, it does have a text node with content and it does not bear any attributes. There is no limit to the number of


                                             <funder>

elements a file can have.

Every LEMDO file must have a


                                             <funder>

element for the Social Sciences and Humantiies Research Council of Canada, whether or not the editor is in Canada. The LEMDO platform has been built with SSHRC funds, and SSHRC funds have supported every aspect of the documenting, converting, remediating, and encoding processes.

Other sources of funding should be recognized using the preferred wording of the institution, donor, funding agency, or grantor.

If you wish, you can wrap the name of the funding source in the


                                             <ref>

element and use a


                                          @target

attribute to point to the URL of the funding source.

Examples

<funder>Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada</funder>

<funder>
<ref target="https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Foyer/makingwaves/friends/index.html">Friends of the ISE</ref>
</funder>

<funder>Poculi Ludique Societas</funder>

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

Digital Renaissance Editions (DRE1)

Anthology Leads and Co-Coordinating Editors: Brett Greatley-Hirsch, Janelle Jenstad, James Mardock, and Sarah Neville.

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.

MoEML Mayoral Shows (MOMS1)

Anthology Leads and General Editors: Mark Kaethler and Janelle Jenstad. The team includes SSHRC-funded research assistants. Peer review is coordinated by the General Editors but conducted by other editors and external scholars.

Glossary

empty element

“Empty elements are also called milestone or self-closing elements, but LEMDO uses the term empty element. Empty elements do not have child text or element nodes.”

Metadata

Authority title	Encode Sponsors and Funders 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.