A NetLink ID allows you to interact with the University of Victoria and its systems.
An xml:id allows you to interact specifically with the LEMDO repository. You need both a NetLink
ID and an xml:id to work within the LEMDO platform. You will create your own NetLink
ID. The LEMDO Project Manager will give you an xml:id.
Rationale
To be able to interact with the LEMDO repository, you need a UVic NetLink ID and password. We protect the repository by restricting
write privileges so that no one can write to the repository unless they enter their NetLink ID and
password. We further protect the repository by giving you write privileges for only
specific parts of the repository, normally just the directory containing the files for your edition. When you enter your NetLink ID and password,
UVic Systems checks that your NetLink ID and password match, and then the UVic repository
will accept incoming revisions from your local computer’s copy of the repository.
Practice
If you are already a UVic student, staff member, or faculty member, you already have
a NetLink ID. You may jump to the step of sending your NetLink ID to the Project Manager.
If you do not have UVic credentials, you will first need apply for an affiliate identity.
Once granted, your affiliate identity allows you to set up a unique NetLink ID and
password. You will need to go through each of the following steps:
Apply for an affiliate identity. (Wait to hear back from the Project Manager.)
Create your NetLink ID and password.
Send your NetLink ID and bio to LEMDO’s Project Manager at lemdo@uvic.ca. (Wait to hear back about a time for a training session.)
Test write privileges during your training session.
Note for those working in French that NetLink ID is translated as “Identifiant” on the login page, as shown below.
French language NetLink login page.
There are multiple agents and dependencies in this process. We have mapped these in
the swimlane process diagram below.
Process by which NetLink IDs are requested, granted, and given write privileges.
Step-by-Step
Apply for affiliate identity by filling in the Sponsorship Request Form. You are the Affiliate. The LEMDO Project Director will be your Sponsor. Fill in
Janelle Jenstad’s name, email (jenstad@uvic.ca), and department (English) as shown
below.
Source: UVic Affiliate Identity Management System (AIMS)
The AIMS system will forward the request to Janelle Jenstad, who will then log in
to AIMS, confirm that your request is legitimate, and write a justification for you
to be given affiliate identity. Confirmation will take a day or so, depending on Janelle’s
schedule.
A human at UVic’s Help Desk reviews the justification and approves the granting of
affiliate identity. Depending on the time of year and the other demands on the Help
Desk’s staff, approval may take as little as one day or as long as a week.
Approval of affiliate identity results in the generation of a V-Number for you (i.e.,
an alphanumeric string starting with V and followed by eight digits). The Help Desk
sends it to Janelle, who in turn passes it on to the Project Manager.
The Project Manager will email your V-Number to you at the email we have on file for
you, along with further instructions about creating a NetLink ID and writing a bio-bibliographical note. When you get that V-Number, save it! All your future interactions with UVic will
require this number, including the task of choosing your own NetLink ID.
Create your own NetLink ID on this page: https://www.uvic.ca/uvicid/. Choose a recognizable combination of your initials and surname (plus a number if
necessary for disambiguation purposes): surname, forenamesurname, surname1, or forenamesurname1.
It helps us if we can connect you to your NetLink ID at a glance.
Set up a secure password for your NetLink ID. Remember this password. If you forget
it, you will need to know your V-Number in order to reset it.
Send your NetLink ID (but not your password) to the Project Manager (lemdo@uvic.ca). Send a bio-bibliographical note at the same time.
The Project Manager will ask a member of the HCMC staff to add your NetLink ID to
the list of NetLink IDs authorized to modify the LEMDO repository. You will only be
able to modify the directories and files that pertain to your edition(s).
Check out the LEMDO repository and begin working. Anyone can check out the repository. However, to commit to the LEMDO repository, you must have your NetLink ID and password at hand.
If you are unable to commit to the repository, contact Janelle Jenstad or the Project
Manager immediately.
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.
Kim Shortreed
Kim is a PhD Candidate in Media Studies and Digital Humanities, through UVic’s English
Department. Kim has worked for years in TEI and XML, mostly through the Colonial Despatches
website, and in a number of roles, including technical editor, research and markup,
writing and editing, documentation, and project management. Recently, Kim worked with
a team of Indigenous students to find ways to decolonize the Despatches project’s content and encoding practices. Part of Kim’s dissertation
project, Contracolonial Practices in Salish Sea Namescapes, is to prototype a haptic map, a motion-activated topography installation that plays audio clips of spoken toponyms,
in SENĆOŦEN and English, of the W̱SÁNEĆ Territory/Saanich Peninsula, respectively.
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.
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 women’s
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
bio-bibliographical note
“A paragraph listing your institutional affilation, academic credentials, research
interests, and publications.”
Edition directory
“A directory (i.e., folder) in the LEMDO repository containing all the files for an
edition. The name of each edition directory is the abbreviation for the edition, such
as AYL for As You Like It.”
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.”
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.”
write privileges
“the ability to commit new and revised files to the repository”
xml:id
“A unique value that we use to tag an entity. Strictly speaking,
@xml:id is an attribute that can be added to any XML element. We use it as a shorthand for
“value of the xml:id”. Every person, role, glyph, ligature, bibliographical entry,
act, scene, speech, paragraph, page beginning, XML file, division within XML files,
and anchor has a unique xml:id value, some of which are assigned automatically during
the processing of our XML files.”
Metadata
Authority title
Get a NetLink ID
Type of text
Documentation
Publisher
University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform
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.
