LEMDO: Set Up Your Anthology in the LEMDO Repository

Set Up Your Anthology in the LEMDO Repository

Rationale

Each anthology has a directory in the LEMDO repository’s data/anthologies directory. This documentation explains how your anthology directory is created and named, the organizational structure of anthology directories, and who is responsible for adding and updating the various components found in anthology directories.

Creation of Anthology Directories

The LEMDO team will add your anthology directory to the LEMDO repository. The name of your directory will be your anthology’s internal abbreviation,¹ given in all lower-case letters.

Current Anthology Directory Paths
Anthology	Public Abbreviation	Internal Abbreviation	Directory path
LEMDO Classroom	Classroom	classroom	lemdo/data/anthologies/classroom
The Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project	Douai/DSMP	douai	lemdo/data/anthologies/douai
Digital Restoration Drama	DRD	drd	lemdo/data/anthologies/drd
Digital Renaissance Editions	DRE	dre	lemdo/data/anthologies/dre
Early Modern Dramatic Paratexts	EMDP	emdp	lemdo/data/anthologies/emdp
Early Modern England Encyclopedia	EMEE	emee	lemdo/data/anthologies/emee
MoEML Mayoral Shows	MoMS	moms	lemdo/data/anthologies/moms
New Internet Shakespeare Editions	NISE	nise	lemdo/data/anthologies/nise
LEMDO Peer-Review	Peer-Review	peer-review	lemdo/data/anthologies/peer-review
Queen’s Men Editions	QME	qme	lemdo/data/anthologies/qme

LEMDO will add the following folders and files to your anthology directory:

about: Although you may choose to add additional folders to organize your anthology about pages, LEMDO will add one folder called about for files such as your anthology history, contributors, and user guide. For more information on anthology about pages, see Anthology About Pages.

site: Your site directory contains anthology-specific styling in a Cascading Style Sheet (aka CSS file), interactions in JavaScript (aka JS file), and a site template in HTML. There is more information on the contents of your site directory in Anthology Site Directories. Generally speaking, if you hire a developer or designer for your anthology, this directory is the one in which they will work.

config_staticSearch.xml: This file adds the code for staticSearch to your anthology. staticSearch is the fully Endings-Compliant search function that is used in all LEMDO anthologies. You will not make any changes in this file.

[anth].xml (i.e., dre.xml, moms.xml, etc.): This file contains the metadata for your entire anthology along with the content and metadata for your anthology’s home page. You will add to this file the content that you wish to appear when people visit your site. For more information on anthology XML pages, see Special Case: Anthology XML Pages.

[anth]_stopwords.txt: This file is used by the staticSearch code to make your anthology searchable. You will not make any changes in this file.

[anth]_words.txt: You will not make any changes in this file.

VERSION: This file captures the version number of your next release. You will not make any changes in this file.

Anthology Site Directories

Your site directory contains the files that give your anthology website its own unique feel. Inside site, you will find the following folders:

css

favicon

fonts (optional)

images

template

The CSS Folder

CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, is the language that we use to style our Web pages. CSS is a core language used across the Web. We also use the CSS extension language SCSS (Sassy Cascading Style Sheets), which allows us to nest styling.

In your anthology’s css folder, you will find an [anth].scss file. Typically, LEMDO’s standard styling will suffice for almost everything that your anthology needs. You will, however, want to add your anthology’s colours in this file. For more information on what to update in your anthology’s SCSS file, see Customize Your Anthology. For more technical information on how to update your anthology’s SCSS file, see Customize Your Anthology’s CSS.

Favicons

A favicon is the tiny image that appears beside the Web page name in browser tabs. For example, if you visit the MoMS anthology site, you will see that their favicon in the browser tab is the City of London crest.

Your favicon folder contains your favicon at the different sizes and resolutions required in different browsers and on different devices. If you are uncertain about the sizes that you require, contact the LEMDO team.

Fonts

Although most anthologies use LEMDO’s default Alegreya fonts on their websites, you may choose to use a different font. If your anthology wants to use a different font, you will need to download the font family that you wish to use into a fonts folder.

Anthology Images

You will add all of the images that you require for your anthology about pages (including your homepage) in your images folder.

The JavaScript Folder

JavaScript, or JS, is the language that we use to add interactions to our websites. Like CSS, JavaScript is a core language used across the Web. It allows us to do things like change the directions of the arrows in our top navigation bar when each tab is opened or closed.

In your anthology’s js folder, you will find an [anth].js file. Typically, you will not need to add or change anything in your [anth].js file. If you do wish to add interactivity beyond what LEMDO has applied to all anthologies, consult with the LEMDO team.

The Template Folder

Your template folder will contain a sitePage.html file. This file is written in HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), which is the XML language in which our websites are built (from the underlying XML files). Like CSS and JavaScript, HTML is a core language of the Web. While CSS is how things look and JS is how things happen, HTML is the foundation for all the content that is styled by CSS and made interactive by JS.

Your sitePage.html files acts as the scaffolding for your anthology’s website. What appears in this file is the base template for the structure of each of your Web pages. You will work with the LEMDO team to determine what you need to add or change in your sitePage.html file. These are the key sections that are required in all anthology sitePage.html files:

A link to LEMDO’s SCSS so that our standard styling applies to your website.

A link to your anthology’s SCSS so that your anthology’s styling applies to your website.

Links to your favicons so that a favicon appears in the browser tab for your website.

The contents of your top navigation bar so that people can easily move through your website.

The contents of your footer so that your supporters get due credit.

Practice: Customize the Contents of Your Anthology Directory

If you wish to add more folders to your anthology directory, you may. Additional folders should be used to organize your anthology’s about files. To add a new folder:

In Terminal, cd (change directory) into your anthology’s directory.

Run the command svn add followed by the name of your new directory. Note that anthology folders’ names should use camel case (i.e., the first letter is lower-case and the first letter of following words is capitalized such as in performanceEditions).

svn commit as usual.

You might need to refresh the parent directory in your Project view in Oxygen in order to see the folder that you just created. To do so, right-click on your anthology directory in your Project view and select “Refresh” from the drop-down menu that appears.

You may find it helpful to look at other anthologies’ directories while you decide how to customize your own. You are able to view other anthologies’ directories in Oxygen, but you are not able to commit changes to directories other than your own.

Notes

1.This abbreviation is also used as a prefix in your filenames. You will determine this abbeviation/prefix in collaboration with the LEMDO Director↑

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.

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.

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	Set Up Your Anthology in the LEMDO Repository
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