Freeze

Freeze is a period before an anthology release during which no new content should be added to the files that you will publish and no major revisions should be made. During this period, your anthology team will ensure that all pages are ready to be published.

Rationale

LEMDO will freeze your anthology before it is published. This period is used to ensure that there are no glaring errors in any of the pages being published, that all pages have complete metadata, and that all links on your anthology website work correctly.

Create a Final Release Progress Chart

For Anthology Leads: When you are nearing freeze, work with the LEMDO Project Manager to create a progress chart to ensure that all of the required tasks are completed before your anthology is released. Email the LEMDO Project Manager at lemdo@uvic.ca.

Look Through the On This Page Hamburger Menu

Each page on your anthology site has an On This Page hamburger menu accessible by clicking the button with three horizontal lines in the top left corner of the page. Click through each of the buttons in that menu (Content, Credits, Tools, and About). If there are links in any of those, click each of the links to ensure that they work.

Check Metadata

Navigate to the About tab in your page’s On This Page hamburger menu and select Metadata. Ensure that there is data in each of the metadata fields. If there are any empty fields in your page’s metadata, go to the bottom of your anthology’s pre-freeze progress chart file to find the correct format for metadata and add the appropriate information to your page’s XML file.

Proofread and Change Status

When you proofread your pages, check for glaring errors (missing spaces, missing or extra punctuation, spelling errors). Avoid making any major revisions to content at this point; all major revisions should be made well before the freeze.
To change your file’s @status value, follow these steps:
Change the value on the @status attribute on the <revisionDesc> element to "TEI_proofed" or "IML-TEI_proofed".
Add a new <change> element to the <revisionDesc> .
Add a @who attribute with the value "pers:" followed by your xml:id.
Add a @when attribute with the date that have proofed the page.
Add a @status attribute with the value "TEI_proofed" or "IML-TEI_proofed".
By changing the status of your file to "TEI_proofed" or "IML-TEI_proofed", you are indicating that the page is ready for your publisher (LEMDO) to publish the page. Note that these changes should be completed at least one full day before your anthology is published.

Publish

The final step before we release your site is undertaken by the LEMDO Team. The LEMDO Team will do a final check of your anthology and all the pages you want to publish in the next release. You should plan to have completed all of your final release tasks at least one full day before your anthology is published. That gives the anthology time to build and be checked on the day of publication.
Then LEMDO Team will do the following:
Change the value on the @status attribute on the <revisionDesc> element of each file to "published".
Add a @who attribute with a value of "org:LEMD1" to indicate that it is LEMDO that is publishing the file.
Add a @when attribute. The value of @when will be the date that we are publishing your anthology.
Add a @status attribute with the value "published".
If there is an earlier <change> element with a @status value of "published", we will remove the @status but retain the rest of the <change> element. We will note the initial date of publication in the text node of that <change> element if the file has been previously published.
We want only one <change> element with @status value of "published". The objectives here are:
To have a single, citable publication date on the page in the release.
To retain a history of the page throughout the multiple releases of your anthology.

Prosopography

Isabella Seales

Isabella Seales is a fourth year undergraduate completing her Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Victoria. She has a special interest in Renaissance and Metaphysical Literature. She is assisting Dr. Jenstad with the MoEML Mayoral Shows anthology as part of the Undergraduate Student Research Award program.

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

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.

Metadata

Authority title Freeze
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.