LEMDO Oxygen Project

Prior Reading

Rationale

Oxygen is designed to work through projects. A project (XPR) file contains important scripts that control the behaviour of Oxygen and give you access to project-specific tools. The LEMDO project file (lemdo-all.xpr) also ensures that you are validating your XML files against the LEMDO customization of TEI and that you are following all the rules that govern how you are supposed to encode your play. When you open the XPR file, Oxygen knows to check your files against the LEMDO schema and Schematron. In other words, Oxygen will catch your mistakes and prompt you to correct them. The XPR file also preloads into Oxygen all the custom scripts and character mappings that we have made for you.
It is imperative that you always have the lemdo-all.xpr project file open when you are working on LEMDO.

Practice: Open the XPR file for the LEMDO Project

Open your Oxygen application.
Navigate to Project in the menu bar and click it.
Click on Open Project.
Open the lemdo folder on your computer and click lemdo-all.xpr. The full path will depend on where you have chosen to put the lemdo folder on your computer. Once you navigate to your checked-out copy of the LEMDO repository (your local lemdo folder), you will find the XPR file at ../lemdo/lemdo-all.xpr.
Now that you have opened the project, you can find the XML files in the edition of your play by following these steps:
Make sure that you can see the Project pane in Oxygen. If it doesn’t open automatically, you can open the Project pane by going to the Window menu at the top of your Oxygen window. Go to Show View and select Project.
In the Project window, expand the lemdo folder. The folder expander arrows work in intuitive ways to expand and collapse folders.
Open the data folder. Inside that folder is a folder called texts. All of the individual play portfolios are in this texts folder.
Find the portfolio with the abbreviated title of your play. If you are unsure what your portfolio has been named, go to DRE Play IDs.

Further Reading

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

Portfolio
“A directory (i.e., folder) in the LEMDO repository containing all the files for an edition. The name of each portfolio is the abbreviation for the edition, such as AYL for As You Like It.”

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