LEMDO Release Notes
Para1LEMDO follows the Endings Principles for Release Management. We periodically release new static versions of this website as new material is created
and peer-reviewed. Each release is comprised of a complete and self-contained set
of HTML files; these files have no dependencies on external code libraries or on a
back-end server. The Endings staticSearch engine (created by Martin Holmes and Joey Takeda) is built into the release so that LEMDO is fully concordanced, indexed, and searchable.
The LEMDO release schedule allows us to publish editions as they are completed, add
new documentary discoveries, and update our bibliography in a systematic way. Each
static release has a version number. Major releases are indicated by a change to the
whole number integer (1.0 to 2.0). Minor releases of content are indicated by a change
to the point number (2.0 to 2.1). The first LEMDO release is numbered 0.3a, which
recognizes that the LEMDO anthology was first published as an alpha site. Releases
are described on this page in chronological order.
LEMDO 0.3a
Para2This first release of the LEMDO alpha site on 2024-05-08 includes our full documentation
index, including several pages in Chapter 2. The LEMDO Platform that have been finalized (i.e., are
out of draft).
Para3Known omissions in this release are:
We expect to release regular updates as we remove the
Completed anthology
aboutpages
Finalized documentation pages
draftstatus from more documentation pages and complete anthology
aboutpages.
Note that documentation pages that are still in draft have a watermark reading
Unpublished Draft.Completed documentation pages have had the watermark removed.
Para4Credit for releasing LEMDO 0.3a goes to the following people:
—Navarra Houldin, 2024-05-08
Lead documentation authors Janelle Jenstad, Martin Holmes, and Navarra Houldin, and to contributing authors Kate LeBere and Nicole Vatcher for their work writing and revising documentation in preparation for this release.
LEMDO team members Rylyn Christensen, Mahayla Galliford, Navarra Houldin, Janelle Jenstad, Isabella Seales, and Kim Shortreed for their work proofreading documentation files.
Kate LeBere for her work encoding documentation files.
Project Manager Navarra Houldin for their work managing the documentation workflow.
LEMDO’s first Lead Programmer Joey Takeda for creating the initial TEI customization for LEMDO.
HCMC Developer-Designer Patrick Szpak for the LEMDO design.
HCMC Developer and LEMDO Lead Programmer Martin Holmes for consulting on the TEI customization, writing processing to create Endings-compliant
HTML from our XML, developing the hosting and archiving plan, and releasing the site.
LEMDO 0.4a: Anthology Style Documentation
Para5This second release of the LEMDO anthology on 2025-10-27 is codenamed
In addition to these completed chapters, this release includes the related pages Introduction to LEMDO’s SCSS and Customize Your Anthology’s CSS from Chapter 22. Programming along with Stage Direction Rendering in Modernized Texts from Chapter 14. Modernized Texts.
Anthology Style Documentation.As the title suggests, it includes completed documentation about anthology-level styling and other anthology customization. It also includes completed documentation related to edition licensing. With this release, we are publishing the following completed chapters:
This release also includes significant documentation reorganization. The chapters
related to editions, licensing, anthology customization, and anthology release have
been moved and reorganized so that the documentation matches the workflow that editors
and anthology leads are likely to take. Similarly, the chapters related to semi-diplomatic
transcriptions have been rearranged to clarify which documentation pages are relevant
to all editors, which are relevant only to editors working on print plays, and which
are relevant only to editors working on manuscript plays.
Para6The known omission in this release continues to be many completed anthology
aboutpages, which remain in
draftstatus as the LEMDO Team finalizes the documentation after our year-long webinar series.
Para7Credit for releasing
—Navarra Houldin, 2025-10-27
LEMDO 0.4a: Anthology Style Documentationgoes to the following people:
Lead documentation authors Janelle Jenstad, Martin Holmes, and Navarra Houldin and contributing authors Sofia Spiteri and and Patrick Szpak for their work writing and revising documentation in preparation for this release.
LEMDO team members Mahayla Galliford, Navarra Houldin, Janelle Jenstad, Isabella Seales, Sofia Spiteri, Patrick Szpak, and Nicole Vatcher for their work proofreading documentation files.
Current LEMDO Training and Documentation Lead Navarra Houldin for their work training LEMDO team members to contribute to and proofread documentation.
Current LEMDO Project Manager Mahayla Galliford and former Project Manager Navarra Houldin for co-managing the documentation completion and release workflows.
HCMC Developer-Designer Patrick Szpak for consultation on style documentation.
HCMC Developer and LEMDO Lead Programmer Martin Holmes for releasing the site.
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.
Kate LeBere
Project Manager, 2020–2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019–2020. Textual Remediator
and Encoder, 2019–2021. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English
at the University of Victoria in 2020. During her degree she published papers in The Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History
Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management
in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth
and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet
during the Russian Cultural Revolution. She is currently a student at the University
of British Columbia’s iSchool, working on her masters in library and information science.
Kim Shortreed
Kim is a PhD Candidate in Media Studies and Digital Humanities, through UVic’s English
Department. Kim has worked for years in TEI and XML, mostly through the Colonial Despatches
website, and in a number of roles, including technical editor, research and markup,
writing and editing, documentation, and project management. Recently, Kim worked with
a team of Indigenous students to find ways to decolonize the Despatches project’s content and encoding practices. Part of Kim’s dissertation
project, Contracolonial Practices in Salish Sea Namescapes, is to prototype a haptic map, a motion-activated topography installation that plays audio clips of spoken toponyms,
in SENĆOŦEN and English, of the W̱SÁNEĆ Territory/Saanich Peninsula, respectively.
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.
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 women’s
writing in the modernist period.
Patrick Szpak
Patrick Szpak is a Programmer Consultant and Web Designer in the Humanities Computing
and Media Centre at the University of Victoria.
Rylyn Christensen
Rylyn Christensen is an English major at the University of Victoria.
Sofia Spiteri
Sofia Spiteri is currently completing her Bachelor of Arts in History at the University
of Victoria. During the summer of 2023, she had the opportunity to work with LEMDO
as a recipient of the Valerie Kuehne Undergraduate Research Award (VKURA). Her work
with LEMDO primarily includes semi-diplomatic transcriptions for The Winter’s Tale and Mucedorus.
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.
University of Victoria (UVIC1)
https://www.uvic.ca/Metadata
| Authority title | LEMDO Release Notes |
| Type of text | About |
| Publisher | University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform |
| Series | Linked Early Modern Drama Online |
| Source |
Born-digital anthology page written by Navarra Houldin for publication in the LEMDO 0.4a anthology
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| Editorial declaration | Canadian English spelling |
| Edition | Released with LEMDO 0.4a |
| Sponsor(s) |
LEMDO WebsiteLEMDO’s own website, published at lemdo.uvic.ca, is generated using the same technology that builds all the anthologies.
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| 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.
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