Commit Files

Rationale

Before you work on the files in your portfolio for the first time, you will check out the current version of the repository from the cloud and save a local copy of it to your computer. While and after you work on a file, you will send your new version back up to the cloud so that everyone working on LEMDO will have access to the most current version of the file. This process is called committing. At the beginning of every new work session (and periodically during all your work sessions), you will update your local copy so that it matches the repository.
It is important that everyone working on LEMDO always has the most current version of the files in the repository. While you only have to check out the entire repository once (the first time you work on a specific machine), you will need to update your repository before every work session.

Practices

As with checking out, the procedures for updating your local copy of an SVN repository are slightly different for each operating system.
Since everyone needs to have the most current version of the files, you will need to commit your work to the repository. At the very least, commit your files at the end of every encoding session. We recommend committing every hour or so during long encoding sessions. Files must be valid in order to be committed. If an invalid file is commited to the repository, the websiteʼs build may break and your work will not be rendered properly on the lemdo-dev website.
To validate your file, click the red checkmark in the white box in Oxygen (or press Ctrl+shift+V). You should regularly validate your file while you are encoding. It is much easier to fix invalidities as soon as they appear than to fix numerous invalidities later.
Once you know your file is valid, you may commit your file to the repository. Again, there are different instructions for each of the three main operating systems:

Tips

Here are some recommendations on how to make best use of Subversion, avoid conflicts, and keep the project running smoothly.
svn update often. If you do this, youʼll learn more quickly if someone has edited a file youʼre also working on and caused a conflict.
svn status before committing. If you run svn status before you commit anything, youʼll see a list of files whose status is potentially relevant. Files with a question mark next to them are files which are not being tracked by the repository; if one of the files youʼre working on has a question mark, then you may need to svn add it. Files with an M next to them have been modified; if you see that you have modified files which you didnʼt intend to, make sure you fix that (delete the local file, then svn update) or avoid commmitting them. Files with a D have been deleted; make sure you havenʼt inadvertently deleted a file that you didnʼt mean to. Files with an A have been added.
svn commit only the files youʼve been working on. If youʼre working on H5, and you shouldnʼt be committing any other changes, then you can run svn commit data/texts/H5 to make sure only those files are committed.

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.

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.

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 womenʼs writing in the modernist period.

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

svn checkout
“A Terminal command used to download a copy of the entire LEMDO repository to your local computer.”
svn commit
“A Terminal command used to push any local-copy changed files to the LEMDO repository.”
svn update
“A Terminal command used to sync your local copy (the one on your workstation’s computer) of any LEMDO files on the LEMDO repo.”

Metadata

Authority title Commit Files
Type of text Documentation
Short title
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
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.