Propose an Anthology
Relationship Between LEMDO, Anthologies, and Editions/Editors
LEMDO’s key strategy is to focus on technology and training so that anthology projects
can focus on editing plays and nurturing new editors. The LEMDO team supports anthology
leads as they in turn support their editors. Taking Digital Renaissance Editions and Eleanor Lowe’s edition of An Humourous Day’s Mirth as an example, the following table sets out these roles:
Who | Role |
University of Victoria | Digital Publisher and Host |
University of Victoria ePublishing | Print Publisher |
LEMDO | Encoding and publishing platform, created by the SSHRC-funded LEMDO Team |
Digital Renaissance Editions (DRE) | Anthology |
Brett Greatley-Hirsch, DRE Co-Coordinating Editor | Anthology Lead |
Eleanor Lowe | Editor of An Humourous Day’s Mirth for DRE |
Before You Write a Proposal
Before you write a formal proposal, read through the page describing what LEMDO will and will not do as a publisher to support anthologies. Please book a meeting with LEMDO Director
Janelle Jenstad for a preliminary conversation to begin shaping your proposal. In
that meeting, we will talk through the following issues:
Scope: What is the scope of your project? I.e., how many plays, how many texts of
those plays, how many digital surrogates (facsimiles), how many critical paratexts
and
Aboutpages?
Fit: How is your project a good fit for LEMDO, given its general mission to expand
the number of teachable and performance early modern plays?
Team: Who is on your team? Have you convened editorial and/or advisory boards yet?
How many editors/contributors do you anticipate having?
Technical Knowledge: How much do you and your team know about text encoding in general
and about TEI in particular? Do you know how to work in the command line? Do you and
your team have any web design expertise?
Release Structure: What are the logical milestones for your project? How will you
divide up the work for project releases (i.e., one edition at a time, all semi-diplomatic
texts in the first release)?
Timeline: When do you hope to release the first edition of your anthology? When do
you hope to release the final edition of your anthology? Are there any target dates
that will guide your release schedule (e.g., SAA annual meeting, tenure and promotion
years)?
Write Your Proposal
Your proposal will be read by LEMDOʼs Advisory Board (to assess scholarly viability
and fit), the LEMDO Group (to assess linking potential and possible overlaps with
other anthologies), at least one representative from the Humanities Computing and
Media Centre at UVic (to assess technical fit and resource implications), and at least
one representative from UVic Libraries and/or UVic ePublishing (to assess implications
for distribution and long-term archiving).
Your proposal:
Project
Indicate the title and acronym of your proposed anthology.
Describe the scope of your proposed anthology.
Explain how it supplies a gap in the field.
Explain how this project is a good fit for LEMDO.
Team
Describe your project leadership (names, institutional affiliations) and give a brief
statement of your collective expertise, including expertise in TEI-XML, text encoding
in general, programming, and work in digital environments.
Explain how UVic personnel are involved in this project (if any).
Resources and Cost
Estimate the number of XML files and media files your project will comprise by its
endpoint.
Explain how will you intend to cover the cost of customizing your LEMDO anthology,
encoding texts (if you want the LEMDO Team to do the encoding for you), adding new
features to the LEMDO platform (if necessary), and paying for the release techniciansʼ
time. (Confer with the LEMDO Director about potential costs.)
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.
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.
Nicole Vatcher
Technical Documentation Writer, 2020–2022. Nicole Vatcher completed her BA (Hons.)
in English at the University of Victoria in 2021. Her primary research focus was womenʼs
writing in the modernist period.
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 | Propose an Anthology |
Type of text | About |
Short title | Propose Anthology |
Publisher | University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform |
Series | Linked Early Modern Drama Online |
Source |
Written by Janelle Jenstad for publication in the LEMDO 1.0 anthology
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Editorial declaration | n/a |
Edition | Released with Linked Early Modern Drama Online 1.0 |
Sponsor(s) |
LEMDO TeamThe 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.
|
Encoding description | Encoded in TEI P5 according to the LEMDO Customization and Encoding Guidelines |
Document status | TEI_proofing |
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. |