Introduction to the LEMDO Platform and Repository

The LEMDO Platform

Provides—via a schema and Schematron—a set of prescriptions, proscriptions, options, and constraints for encoding documents in TEI-XML. These are LEMDO-specific requirements that ensure that all of our thousands of TEI-XML documents are encoded consistently in ways that we can process. The LEMDO platform validates each file against those requirements and gives the encoder or editor suggestions and instant error messages.
Hosts multiple databases to which all editions can link.
Includes editing tools that speed up the process of encoding a text. These tools range from keyboard shortcuts for adding anchors to texts to programmatic conversions that can generate template files from other XML sources (such as the EEBO-TCP texts).
Offers the ability to link easily to other projects, such as MoEML, DEEP, the ESTC, and WSB, by using those projects’ stable URIs and linked data protocols.
Generates diagnostics at the level of the file, edition, and anthology in order to flag errors, omissions and duplications that are not otherwise governed by the LEMDO schema.
Hosts robust and thorough documentation of LEMDOʼs editorial and encoding practices, with links to training videos.
Has multiple processing pipelines that produce various outputs:
HTML pages with no server-side dependencies.
Editions.
The lemdo-dev site that hosts all work in progress.
Multiple anthologies, including the public-facing LEMDO site, remediated anthologies (QME, DRE, and ISE), and new anthologies (NISE, MoMS, EMEE, and others).
Various flavours of XML.
PDFs for our ePublishing and print series.
Complies with the principles of The Endings Project, meaning that all of these static, standalone outputs can be deposited and distributed in multiple locations, thus ensuring the long-term preservability of LEMDO publications.
The LEMDO platform depends on two key technologies:
A Subversion Repository that keeps all of our documents and code under version control.
A Jenkins Continuous Integration Server that runs our diagnostics and allows us to build and rebuild static HTML pages and websites multiple times a day. Jenkins also allows us to package up HTML pages and XML files for easy download.

The Subversion Repository

The repository keeps a record of every copy of every file. At LEMDO, we use Subversion, an open-source version control system. Since many different people at LEMDO (editors, research assistants, programmers) need to work on documents in the repository, we use Subversion to keep our data safe. If someone makes a mistake, we can roll back the document to an earlier version.
The entire repository is open-access, which means that it is publicly available. While it is not crawled by Google—you will not be able find it through a search engine—it is viewable to those who know the link: https://hcmc.uvic.ca/svn/lemdo.

Jenkins Continuous Integration Server

For the most part, editors and anthology leads will not need to think about Jenkins. It works away in the background building your editions and anthologies. But if you do want to see how the build process is going, you can go directly to the LEMDO dashboard on the Jenkins server. (Note that LEMDO shares its Jenkins server with a number of other HCMC projects, each of which has its own dashboard.) A green checkmark means that Jenkins has successfully rebuilt all the pages, anthologies, and diagnostics since the most recent file was committed. When you do need to look at specific products of the Jenkins server (such as your own anthology diagnostics or your edition diagnostics), we will give you a direct link.

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.

Kate LeBere

Project Manager, 2020–2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019–2020. Textual Remediator and Encoder, 2019–2021. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English at the University of Victoria in 2020. During her degree she published papers in The Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet during the Russian Cultural Revolution. She is currently a student at the University of British Columbia’s iSchool, working on her masters in library and information science.

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.

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