LEMDO: Getting Started: Introduction

Getting Started: Introduction

This chapter is designed for everyone getting started with LEMDO, including editors, encoders, anthology leads, and developers. It will guide you through the tasks that you must complete before you begin working in the LEMDO repository and will introduce you to key concepts that you should understand before working on your LEMDO edition.

Prior Reading

This chapter presupposes that you have read the Quickstart(s) appropriate to your role with LEMDO and that you either already know TEI-XML or have read Introduction to Markup, XML, and TEI.

Learning Outcomes

This chapter gives you all the information you need to get started on your edition. By the time you have worked through every section of this chapter, you will:

Have affiliate status at UVic.

Have a NetLink ID and password that gives you access to your files in the LEMDO repository.

Understand enough about our platform, Subversion repository, and Jenkins build server to be able to read and understand the rest of our documentation.

Have installed Oxygen XML Editor and Subversion.

Have checked out the LEMDO repository to your computer.

Be able to write basic Subversion commands in the command line (Terminal) of your computer.

Be able to open and start working in Oxygen XML Editor.

Be able to validate and commit your work to the repository.

Be able to use the keyboard shortcuts we have added to Oxygen for editors.

Section	Description
Get a NetLink ID	Learn how to obtain affiliate status at UVic and set up a NetLink ID
Technical Requirements	Learn what you need to have on your computer in order to work in the LEMDO repository
The LEMDO Platform and Repository	Learn about how we save files and build Web pages
Repository Structure	Learn about the Subversion repository where we save files
Work in the Command Line (Terminal)	Learn how to work in the command line (terminal) of your computer
Install a Subversion Client: Mac	Learn how to install a Subversion client if you are working on a Mac
Install a Subversion Client: Windows	Learn how to install a Subversion client if you are working on a Windows PC
Install a Subversion Client: Linux	Learn how to install a Subversion client if you are working on a Linux OS
Work in Subversion	Learn the Subversion commands that allow you to interact with the repository
Check Out the LEMDO Repository	Learn how to download LEMDO files to your computer
Update Your Local Copy of the LEMDO Repository	Learn how to keep your LEMDO files updated
Commit Changes to the LEMDO Repository	Learn how to save your work to the central LEMDO repository
Workflow for Working in the Command Line (Terminal)	Review the order of operations for updating and committing your LEMDO files
Advanced Subversion Commands	Learn how to add, move, delete, and compare files
Install Oxygen	Learn how to install Oxygen on your computer
LEMDO Oxygen Project	Learn how to work in LEMDO’s Oxygen Project
Work in Oxygen	Learn tips and tricks for working in Oxygen XML Editor
Alter Oxygen’s Appearance	Learn how to change the appearance of your Oxygen application, including how to make lines wrap
LEMDO’s TEI Customization	Learn a bit about LEMDO’s customization of TEI-XML
Validate Files	Learn how to validate your files in Oxygen
Suggested Workflow to Avoid SVN Conflicts	Learn how to avoid working at cross-purposes with your team members
Validation and Diagnostics	Learn how LEMDO checks files and helps you with copyediting
Use LEMDO’s Oxygen Templates	Learn how to find and use the templates that LEMDO has made for annotations, collation, critical paratexts, and other types of files
Keyboard Shortcuts and Special Characters	Learn to use Oxygen’s built-in keyboard shortcuts and the additional shortcuts that LEMDO has created for editors

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.

Metadata

Authority title	Getting Started: Introduction
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
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.