Add Images to the Repository

Prior Reading

This documentation presupposes that you know how to work in the command line and add and commit files:

Rationale

Born-digital documents (information pages, documentation, critical paratexts, annotations, and so on) will often need to link to images of documents, screenshots, icons, and other graphical components. In documentation, images are often essential and always clarifying. In editions, images lend visual support to an argument. In anthologies, images give the anthology a brand identity that reflects its purpose. The first step to using images is adding them to either the repository (if your edition or anthology has three or fewer images) or asking the LEMDO team to add them to the centralized image database (if your edition or anthology has four or more images).

Practice: Naming Image Files

All image file names must end with a period followed by the image file extension (i.e., .jpg or .png). The file extension must be in lowercase letters only.
LEMDO has specific naming protocol for image files that are saved in anthologies and image files that are saved in edition directories:
Images for anthologies: File names must be prefixed by the anthology ID and an underscore. For example: qme_welcome.jpg
Images for editions: File names must be prefixed by the edition ID and an underscore. For example: H5_Genealogy.png
Images for documentation: File names should be prefixed by the name of the documentation file that you will use the image in and an underscore. For example: learn_altText_duckRabbit.jpg

Practice: Image Location

LEMDO saves images in different places depending on context. When an edition or anthology has three or fewer images, we save them in a location that is proximate to the files in which they will be used. There are three main locations for images in the repository:
Images for anthologies: data/anthologies/[anthology]/site/images: Use this location for images which are used only in a specific anthology. For example: data/anthologies/qme/site/images/qme_welcome.jpg
Images for an edition: data/texts/[ABBR]/images Use an edition directory location for images which are only used in a specific text or edition. For example: data/texts/H5/images/H5_Genealogy.png
Images for documentation: data/images: Use this location only for images which are likely to be used in multiple different pages, editions, sites or projects, or in documentation.
When an edition or anthology has four or more images, we save them in centralized image storage in a folder created for that edition or anthology.

Adding Multiple Images to the Repository: Step-by-Step

You will follow the practice outlined in Advanced Subversion Commands to add images.
Before you add images to the repository, make sure they are edited and sized appropriately. Save them as .jpg or .png files. See Choose Image Types and Sizes.
It may sometimes be necessary to add multiple formats of the same file; this is particularly applicable for image files. Suppose that the following image files exist: moms_hughAlley_mayor.jpg and moms_hughAlley_mayor.png. Follow the steps below to upload both files at the same time:
Change directory (cd) into the images directory using the command line.
Enter moms_hughAlley_mayor.* into the commmand line (The asterix symbol in this command means anything. By replacing the file extension with the asterix symbol, this single command adds the .jpg file and the .png file together).
Commit the files.

Practice: Send Your Images to be Added to the Centralized Image Storage

If you have more than three images, you must name and save them all on your computer and then send them to the LEMDO team to be added to our centralized image storage. We recommend that you send them all at once rather than a few at a time.

Good Practice

In theory, there is no limit to the number of images that documentation, anthology about pages, and editions can include. Good practice, however, is to include only images that serve a necessary purpose.

Further Reading

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.

Metadata

Authority title Add Images to the Repository
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
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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.