Quickstart for Anthology Leads

Introduction

This page is for Anthology Leads (such as the Coordinating Editors of the ISE, DRE, or MoMS, or the QME General Editors). Bookmark this page and return to it often. It is your gateway into the resources you need to build your anthology, support your editors and editorial assistants, and liaise with us. We refers to the LEMDO team based at the University of Victoria. You refers to you, the reader of this page. You are welcome to email us at any time with questions. We also welcome suggestions that will improve this documentation for future readers.

Prior Reading

Before you read further on this page, please familiarize yourself with our other Quickstart guides. As Anthology Leads, you are responsible for knowing what your Editors and Editorial Assistants/Encoders need to do. Bookmark the following pages and send them to your Editors and team members.

Relationship of Anthology to Platform

An anthology is an independent editorial project that chooses to use the LEMDO platform either (1) for encoding files and generating a static HTML site, or (2) for encoding files, generating a static HTML site, and publishing that site with the University of Victoria. Anthologies have their own editorial and advisory boards. They are responsible for commissioning and supporting their own editors, and, eventually, arranging for scholarly peer review. LEMDO will do a code review, and the University of Victoria ePublishing Services will do a sign-off review of any print publications.
Some of the anthologies using the LEMDO platform are Legacy Anthologies that had been published on the old ISE Platform. These legacy anthologies are the ISE, QME, and DRE projects. UVic has tasked LEMDO with fulfilling the outstanding obligations of the former ISE Inc. Others are new anthologies that have negotiated with LEMDO and UVic to use the platform (e.g., MoMS). There is information for both types of anthologies on the LEMDO site. See Legacy Projects and Propose Anthology.

Consistency and Customization

The point of LEMDO is to provide an encoding and editing platform that can be used by scholars across our field to prepare editions. The advantage of consistency is that editions prepared on the LEMDO platform are interoperable and, ultimately, re-combinable into new anthologies if all parties agree. Therefore, the TEI tagset and encoding protocols are necessarily consistent across all anthologies.
Some features are customization. Anthologies write their own About pages and create their own menus. They can customize the look and brand of their static site using an anthology-specific Cascading Style Sheet (CSS). They have some control over the behaviours of things like pop-ups via an anthology-specific JavaScript file.

Style Guidelines

You are welcome to create and follow your own style guidelines for your About pages, edition critical paratexts, and edition apparatus. You may also choose to adopt the DRE Style Guidelines. You are responsible for ensuring that your anthology and your editors follow your chosen style guidelines.
However, there are a few style matters that must be consistent across all anthologies using the LEMDO platform. These matters are set out in Style Guidelines for Anthologies.

Anthology-Level Editorial Decisions

We strongly recommend that you adopt the DRE Editorial Guidelines, which have been written with knowledge of the LEMDO encoding protocols. If you choose to write your own editorial guidelines, they must be achievable through the LEMDO encoding guidelines. For example, LEMDO does not currently offer support for versioned editions or extended variants, so you cannot require those of your editors. LEMDO has a set of annotations types that you must follow. If you wanted to add a new annotation type, you would have to submit a feature request to LEMDO before making them required of your editors. You will want to consult with the LEMDO project leads before you finalize your editorial guidelines.
LEMDO has anticipated a number of points on which anthologies will want some latitude. For example, anthologies may choose to do a semi-diplomatic transcription of semi-diplomatic texts or an in-type facsimile transcription. LEMDO will support either. It is up to you to decide how far you want your editors to go in representing the bibliographical and typographical features of the witness. This point and others are flagged throughout the documentation with phrases like Check with your anthology lead. Pages with such phrases also have metadata that ensures they show up in a search for documentation pitched at anthology leads.

Workflow

We recommend that you work through the items below in the order they are listed.
If you are new to TEI and XML, read Introduction to Markup, XML, and TEI.
Skim through the entire chapter on Editions and Anthologies so that you understand the relationship between editions and anthologies. You will want to return to this chapter often. See Editions and Anthologies.
If you are going to be using the platform yourself (as opposed to delegating the oversight of encoding to other team members), read through The LEMDO Platform.
Familiarize yourself with the table of contents for the documentation so that you are ready to support your editors as they move through the editorial workflow. See Documentation Index.

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.

Martin Holmes

Martin Holmes has worked as a developer in the UVicʼs 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

Project manager 2022–present. Textual remediator 2021–present. Navarra Houldin (they/them) completed their BA in History and Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. During their degree, they worked as a teaching assistant with the University of Victoriaʼs Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies. Their primary research was on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America.

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.

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