This page is for editors whose editions were originally encoded in the ISE Markup Language (IML)—i.e., editors who finished or began working on editions for the Internet Shakespeare Editions, Digital Renaissance Editions, or Queen’s Men Editions before December 2018.

We¹ have converted the encoding of your edition or components thereof to TEI P5 and are in the process of remediating your files for republication on the LEMDO platform.

Your role in the process of remediation and what you need to learn depends on several factors:

Just as LEMDO defers to anthology leads on textual or editorial matters that are within the anthology’s control, LEMDO will defer to anthology leads about the best way to proceed with the remediation of your edition.

All QME and DRE editions are being republished along with the QME and DRE anthologies. Some ISE editions are being republished in the New Internet Shakespeare Editions anthology.² The new LEMDO-generated QME and DRE anthologies will include all the content from the old anthologies and replace them at the old URL as well as the new URLs (lemdo.uvic.ca/qme and lemdo.uvic.ca/dre). However, the old ISE website (at https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca) has been staticized in its 2018 form (with minor revisions to the HTML undertaken by Michael Best in Fall 2022) and will be preserved at its original URL for as long as it remains functional. The New Internet Shakespeare Editions, to be published at lemdo.uvic.ca/nise, will not replace the old ISE nor will it include all of the extensive ISE materials that were ancillary to the editions (e.g., image database, performance database³). Given that a user survey answered by 198 people identified the facsimiles as the most important asset of the ISE, the NISE will include all of the facsimiles collected by the ISE plus new facsimiles.