Check Out the LEMDO Repository
Prior Reading
Install a Subversion Client: Mac(for Mac users only)
Install a Subversion Client: Windows(for Windows users only)
Install a Subversion Client: Linux(for Linux users only)
Rationale
Before you can begin working on your LEMDO edition, you must first check out the LEMDO repository to your machine using a Subversion (SVN) command. This will allow you to make changes
to your files from your computer and send them back to the repository. This documentation
will guide you through the steps for checking out the repo.
Practice: Check Out the Repository
First, you must determine where you want to save the LEMDO repository. Usually, you
will want to keep it at a high level in the hierarchy of your computer file system.
For Windows and Linux users, we recommend saving it to your local disk one step below
your user file (e.g., C:\Users\Jenstad\lemdo). If you are a Mac user, we recommend saving it to your Documents folder so that it is easy to navigate to in Finder. We strongly advise against checking
the repo out to Dropbox, Sharepoint, or a OneNote drive.
Next, open your Terminal. Terminal will automatically open to your user directory. If you are working on a
Windows or Linux machine and want to save the repo one step below your user file as
recommended, you do not need to change directory. If you are on a Mac and want to
save the repo to your Documents folder, you will change directory by typing
cd Documents and pressing the Return key.You can now check out the repo by either typing or copying
svn checkout https://hcmc.uvic.ca/svn/lemdo into your Terminal and then pressing the Enter/Return key. This command will both
create a new directory called lemdo and download the repo into it. All of the LEMDO file names will scroll by as they
download. This may take a couple of minutes.The checkout will finish with the message
Checked out revisionfollowed by the revision number. The revision number indicates the state of the repository by showing how many changes have been committed to the repository since it was set up. Every time a new change is committed to the repository, the revision number will increase by one.
There is now a complete copy of LEMDO’s files on your hard drive. You can verify this
by opening your File Explorer (on Windows and Linux) or Finder (on Mac) and navigating
to the location where you checked out the repo.
Always open Oxygen and the LEMDO project (.xpr) file before opening any .xml documents.
Do not open them by clicking on them in your file finder window.
Step-by-Step: Check Out the Repository
Determine where you want to save the entire LEMDO SVN repository (typically one step
below your user profile on Windows and Linux or in your Documents folder for Mac).
Open your Terminal. If you are on a Mac, navigate to the directory that you want to
check out in by using the command
cd (i.e., cd Documents).Once you are in the correct directory, type the SVN command
svn checkout https://hcmc.uvic.ca/svn/lemdo and press Enter/Return. This command will create a lemdo directory and check the repo out into that directory.You now have a minute or so to grab a cup of tea. While you sip your tea, you can
watch the many files scrolling by in Terminal and be impressed with the amount of
work LEMDO editors have done.
At the end of the list of files, the command line will show which revision was checked
out.
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.
Glossary
repository or
“The repository contains all the files in the LEMDO project. The LEMDO repository
is saved to a server in the basement of the Clearihue Building at UVic. All LEMDO
files are under version control through Subversion, a repository maintenance tool
that keeps a complete history of every change ever made to every LEMDO file.”
repo
revision number
“A number that indicates the most recent version of the repository. The revision number
goes up by 1 with every SVN commit.”
svn checkout
“A Terminal command used to download a copy of the entire LEMDO repository to your
local computer.”
Metadata
| Authority title | Check Out the LEMDO 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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| Editorial declaration | n/a |
| 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.
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