This documentation is complimented by our Repository Tour video on YouTube, which gives a detailed breakdown of the repositoryʼs 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 folder. It will not explain practice for encoding the contents of each folder.
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 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.
Editors and research assistants work in the data directory. The data directory contains thirteen child directories: anthologies, binaries, 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 (a forthcoming database of editions of early modern drama), BIBL1 (our shared bibliography file), 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 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 Anthologies.
The css directory houses LEMDOʼs 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 texts).
The facsimiles directory 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 sch directory houses the schema (rule-sets that govern how we work in Oxygen) and files
like lemdo.odd. The schema and Schematron housed in this directory determine how you are supposed
to encode your play, catches your encoding mistakes, and prompts you to correct them.
The templates directory houses templates of files that you can use to create new files. Learn more
about our template files in Use LEMDOʼs Oxygen Templates
The most important directory for editors and remediators is texts. This directory houses all of the editions. Each edition has its own portfolio. Learn more about the specific structure of edition portfolios in Editions.
The texts_shared directory contains files that are shared bewteen different editions (currently the
series statement for the LEMDO Hornbooks print series).
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 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
Research assistant, remediator, encoder, 2021–present. Mahayla Galliford is a fourth-year
student in the English Honours and Humanities Scholars programs at the University
of Victoria. She researches early modern drama and her Jamie Cassels Undergraduate
Research Award project focused on approaches to encoding early modern stage directions.
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.
Glossary
lemdo.odd or emODDern
“lemdo.odd is the TEI file that developers use to capture LEMDO’s 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 outside the ODD file and then
have the developers include it in the ODD file. You can find the ODD file in the repository
(lemdo/data/sch) and see how documentation files are organized there, but only developers
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
Short title
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.
