Introduction to Anthology Releases

This chapter is designed for anthology leads to learn about the typical process for anthology release.

Learning Outcomes

The Anthology Release documentation is designed to support you as you get close to releasing your anthology. By the time you have worked through this chapter, you will:
Be familiar with the standard release process.
Know that release size will impact the timeline for release.
Know your responsibilities and tasks as well as those of the LEMDO team during the release process.

Vocabulary

We use the term freeze frequently in our Anthology Release documentation. 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. We will likely refer to your anthology being frozen during this period. This simply means that your anthology is in the state described above: there is no new content being added to it and there are no major revisions being made.

Release Step-by-Step

The following are the steps that must be completed before an anthology can be released, given in the order that they should be completed in and including the people responsible for each step:
Determine which files will be published in the release. (Anthology leads.)
Finish adding content to and encoding the files that will be published. (Anthology leads, editors, and encoders.)
Create a pre-freeze progress chart. (Anthology leads with support from the LEMDO team.)
Plan the timeline for freezing your anthology. (Anthology leads with support from the LEMDO team.)
Communicate your timeline with the LEMDO team and your anthology. (Anthology leads.)
Complete pre-freeze tasks. (Anthology leads, editors, and encoders.)
Inform the LEMDO director that you are ready to freeze your anthology. (Anthology leads.)
LEMDO announces the freeze. There should be no new content added or major revisions from this point on. (LEMDO team.)
Create a release progress chart. (Anthology leads with support from the LEMDO team.)
Complete pre-release tasks. (Anthology leads, editors, encoders, and the LEMDO team.)
LEMDO publishes the release. (LEMDO team.)
These steps will be further broken down in this chapter of documentation.

Content

Section Description
Release Process and Timelines Learn about the timelines for anthology release and see a general overview for the process
Before an Anthology Freeze Learn about the tasks that anthology leads, editors, and encoders must complete during the pre-freeze phase of release
Check Anthology Status Learn how to check the diagnostics and status for your anthology
Freeze Learn about the tasks that anthology leads and encoders must complete during the freeze phase of release
Publish and Evaluate Your Anthology Release Learn about the publication and evaluation of an anthology release

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

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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