This documentation is complemented by our Repository Tour video on YouTube, which gives a detailed breakdown of the repository’s structure. You may also wish
to have the repository open in your browser while going through this documentation.
This documentation will explain the basic structure of the LEMDO repository and provide
detail about the structure of the data directory. It will not explain practice for encoding the contents of each directory.
Introduction
All LEMDO files are stored in a Subversion repository on the HCMC server. The repository
is a safe, accessible, and versioned place to keep our work. This repository maintains
a copy of every version of our files. If necessary, we can retrieve an earlier version
of a file or even of the entire project. Use of the repository also helps prevent
versioning conflicts when multiple editors need to work on the same file. To work
on LEMDO files, you must check out the repository to your local workstation (laptop,
desktop). You need to commit your changes back to the repository so that everyone
has access to your work.
You can browse the repository structure in a few different ways. This documentation
will use screenshots from a Windows file explorer. The structure is also the same
if you access the repository online and when you open it in Oxygen (the application that we use for encoding).
The LEMDO Directory
The first level of the repository is called lemdo. It contains six directories: code, data, jenkins, lib, obsolete, and tempLanding:
Note that there are a few files outside of the directories: build.xml, build_anthology.xml, build_globals_module.xml, buildOLD.xml, getSiteFromJenkins.sh, and lemdo-all.xpr. Take note of the lemdo-all.xpr file. You will need to open this file first before you start working on any aspect
of LEMDO (encoding an edition or working on processing). Learn more about the lemdo-all.xpr file in LEMDO Oxygen Project.
The Data Directory
Editors and research assistants work in the data directory. The data directory contains fourteen child directories: anthologies, BIBL1, css, documentation, facsimiles, how_to, images, policy, sch, templates, texts, texts_shared, and tools:
Note that the data directory also contains files outside of the child directories: BEED1 (an old file whose content will be moved into the BIBL1 files before it is moved into the obsolete directory), GLOSS1 (our glossary), HAND1 (our list of scribal hands), ORGS1 (our database of organizations), PERS1 (our personography of LEMDO contributors), PROD1 (our productions database), PROS1 (our prosopography), and TAXO1 (our taxonomies file). These files are the sitewide data files. For more information about these files, read Introduction to Sitewide Data Files.
The Anthologies Directory
The anthologies directory houses child directories for each anthology to be published on the LEMDO
platform (e.g., dre, emee, ise, lemdo, moms, qme). Each child directory contains files concerning the particular anthology. For more
information on our anthologies, read Introduction to Anthologies.
The Bibliography Folder
The BIBL1 folder contains the files for our sitewide bibliography. Because of its large size,
we have divided the bibliography into alphabetized files. Entries are encoded in the
file that is appropriate according to the first letter of the first significant piece
of information in them (i.e., author surname, editor surname, or title). For more
information on our siteweide bibliography, read Bibliography (BIBL1) and Introduction to Bibliographies and Citations.
The Cascading Style Sheets Folder
The css folder houses LEMDO’s top-level Cascading Style Sheets. Cascading Style Sheets (known colloquially as CSS) is a language used to describe
the presentation of a document. We use CSS to style the aesthetics of our website
(font, colour, spacing, etc.) and to describe the layout of particular documents (such
as the semi-diplomatic transcriptions).
The Documentation Folder
The documentation folder houses all of the files that make up LEMDO’s Documentation Index.
The Facsimiles Folder
The facsimiles folder houses files that contain metadata for and links to the facsimiles stored
in lemdo.uvic.ca/facsimiles. We include links to these facsimiles from our semi-diplomatic transcription files.
The Images Folder
The images folder contains images that are likely to be used in multiple different pages, editions,
sites or projects, or in documentation.
The Policy Directory
The policy directory houses all of LEMDO’s policy files. We plan to move these files to the
LEMDO anthology and retire this directory.
The Schema Folder
The sch folder houses the schema (rule-sets that govern how we work in Oxygen) and files
like lemdo.odd. The schema and Schematron housed in this folder determine how you are supposed to
encode your play, catches your encoding mistakes, and prompts you to correct them.
The Templates Folder
The templates folder houses templates of files that you can use to create new files. Learn more
about our template files in Use LEMDO’s Oxygen Templates
The Texts Directory
The most important directory for editors and remediators is texts. This directory houses all of the editions. Each edition has its own directory. Learn more about the specific structure of edition directories in Edition Directories.
The Shared Texts Folder
The texts_shared folder contains files that are shared bewteen different editions (currently the series
statement for the LEMDO Hornbooks print series).
The Tools Directory
The tools directory houses various tools used by the programmers.
Isabella Seales is a fourth year undergraduate completing her Bachelor of Arts in
English at the University of Victoria. She has a special interest in Renaissance and
Metaphysical Literature. She is assisting Dr. Jenstad with the MoEML Mayoral Shows
anthology as part of the Undergraduate Student Research Award program.
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 Beatrice 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.
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.
Glossary
lemdo.odd or emODDern
“
lemdo.odd is the TEI file that LEMDO uses to capture our documentation and publish it on the
site. The .odd file extension stands for “one document does it all” or “
ODD file
”. We call our ODD file emODDern. We use an ODD processor to generate a RelaxNG schema, against which editors and encoders
validate their XML files. Many projects are entirely documented in their ODD file.
Because LEMDO has so much documentation that is written by editors, encoders, and
technical writers, we write a lot of our documentation in discrete .xml files that
are later included in the ODD file. You can find the ODD file in the repository (lemdo/data/sch/lemdo.odd) and see how documentation files are organized there, but only certain members of
the LEMDO team have permission to commit changes to this file. The LEMDO schema and
all of our editorial and encoding documentation HTML pages are generated from the
ODD file. (Read more about ODD files in the TEI Guidelines.)”
Metadata
Authority title
Repository Structure
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.
