Update Your Local Copy of the LEMDO Repository

Rationale

Since we sometimes make global changes that can impact your files and the tools that you have available in Oxygen and there are multiple users that add, update, and sometimes delete LEMDO files from different locations, you must update your local copy of the repository at the start of every work session. You should also regularly update your local copy during long work sessions. Doing this will ensure that you have access to the most recent files and tools. This documentation will explain the steps for doing an update using Subversion (SVN).

Practice: Update Your Local Copy

First, open your Terminal. Terminal will automatically open to your user directory. You will need to change directory into lemdo using the standard command cd. If you downloaded the LEMDO repository one step below your user file (typically the case for Windows and Linux users), you will type cd lemdo. If you downloaded the LEMDO repo elsewhere (e.g., in the Documents folder for many Mac users), you will need to type out the full path to get to your lemdo directory (e.g., cd Documents/lemdo). Press the Enter/Return key.
Next, type the command svn up and press Enter/Return. You should always do this step at the lemdo level to ensure that you get all of the global changes that LEMDO makes. Once you have done this, you will see a list of the files that other people have made changes in. When your local copy is done updating, you will see a message that reads Updated to revision followed by the revision number. You are now ready to do your work in Oxygen.

Step-by-Step: Update Your Repository

Open your Terminal.
Navigate to your lemdo directory using the command cd.
Type the SVN command svn up and press Enter/Return.
Once you see the message Updated to revision followed by the revision number, you are ready to do your work in Oxygen.

Special Case: Updating Your Local Copy After Committing

We recommend committing and updating your local copy of the repo regularly during long work sessions. You should always update your local copy from the highest level of the repo (i.e., from the lemdo directory) and commit from the lowest level (i.e., your editionʼs directory). When you do an SVN update after committing, you will first need to navigate back to the lemdo level. To do so, type cd ../ until you get to the correct level.

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

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

revision number
“A number that indicates the most recent version of the repository. The revision number goes up by 1 with every SVN commit.”

Metadata

Authority title Update Your Local Copy of the LEMDO Repository
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Publisher University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform
Series Linked Early Modern Drama Online
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TEI Customization created by Martin Holmes, Joey Takeda, and Janelle Jenstad; documentation written by members of the LEMDO Team
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Edition Released with Linked Early Modern Drama Online 1.0
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