Check Out the LEMDO Repository

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 revision followed 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 LEMDOʼs 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

Research assistant, remediator, encoder, 2021–present. Mahayla Galliford is a fourth-year student in the English Honours and Humanities Scholars programs at the University of Victoria. She researches early modern drama and her Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award project focused on approaches to encoding early modern stage directions.

Martin Holmes

Martin Holmes has worked as a developer in the UVicʼs 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

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.

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 repo
“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.”
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.”

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