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 revisionfollowed 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 revisionfollowed 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 edition’s 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
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
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 |
| Type of text | Documentation |
| Publisher | University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform |
| Series | Linked Early Modern Drama Online |
| Source |
TEI Customization created by Martin Holmes, Joey Takeda, and Janelle Jenstad; documentation written by members of the LEMDO Team
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| Editorial declaration | n/a |
| Edition | 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 |
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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.
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