Check Link Validity Technical Writer Navarra Houldin Proofreader Mahayla Galliford Project Director Janelle Jenstad Project Manager Mahayla Galliford Training and Documentation Lead Navarra Houldin Programmer Martin Holmes Programmer Joey Takeda Junior Programmer Tracey El Hajj Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

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 University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform

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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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 Document Types All documents in LEMDO are either born-digital documents or primary documents. Within those two general categories, LEMDO offers additional ways to categorize a file. Born-digital Born-digital documents are anything other than primary texts Documentation Encoding and editorial guidelines; programming, processing, and rendering instructions; how-to instructions; element descriptions; and records of remediation. Responsibilities Responsibilities Project Director A person or organization with primary responsibility for all essential aspects of a project, has overall responsibility for managing projects, or provides overall direction to a project manager. LEMDO uses the term project director for the person who directs the LEMDO project. For anthology leads, use pbd. Proofreader A person who corrects printed matter. LEMDO uses the term proofreader for the person who performs minor corrections to a finalized document, which usually include typographical or rendering fixes. For copy-editing, use resp:edt_cpy. Programmer A person, family, or organization responsible for creating a computer program. Gloss needed. Technical Writer Writer of Technical Material: A person responsible for writing or compiling documentation of the project’s editorial, encoding, and programming practices. Automatically generated this file by extracting its content from lemdo.lite.odd. Tracey El Hajj 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.

 Mahayla Galliford 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

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 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.

 Janelle Jenstad 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

Joey Takeda is LEMDO’s Consulting Programmer and Designer, a role he assumed in 2020 after three years as the Lead Developer on LEMDO.

 LEMDO Team 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. Humanities Media and Computing Centre https://hcmc.uvic.ca The Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) at the University of Victoria has an international reputation developing projects in collaboration with researchers and instructors from UVic’s Faculty of Humanities, with particular expertise in the fields of digital humanities and language learning.
Prior Reading <ref target="learn_generalDiagnostics.xml">LEMDO Diagnostics</ref> <ref target="learn_encodeLinks_intro.xml">Introduction to Making Links</ref> <ref target="learn_encodeLinks_principles.xml">Principles, Practices, and Caveats of Linking</ref>
Rationale

One of the key functions of any LEMDO edition or anthology is to make links—our name is <emph>Linked</emph> Early Modern Drama Online for this reason! Because there are many types of links that LEMDO editors, encoders, and anthology leads make, it is important that we have mechanisms to ensure the links are functional. This documentation will guide you through the process of checking link validity using edition diagnostics, general LEMDO diagnostics, and our anthology link checker.

Step-by-Step: Check Pointer Links Using Edition Diagnostics

You can use your edition diagnostics to check that pointers from your annotations and collation files are formatted correctly. To do so: Run edition diagnostics by opening your modernized text file and clicking the red play button at the top of the Oxygen window. Once the diagnostic page has opened in your browser, navigate to the Annotations and collations whose pointers are in the wrong order diagnostic. If there is a zero after the diagnostic title, there are no issues with the order of pointers in your annotations or collation. If there is a number other than zero after the diagnostic title, open the diagnostic by clicking on the title. Search your edition to find the bad pointer listed in the diagnostic. Check your modernized text to ensure you are linking to anchors in the correct order.

You can also check that all of your pointers link to something using the Pointers not pointing at anything diagnostic. If the number following the diagnostic title is not zero, open the diagnostic and search your edition for the bad pointer. Update the value of the target attribute so that the pointer successfully links to an entity.

Step-by-Step: Check Bad Internal Links Using LEMDO Diagnostics

LEMDO offers two internal link checks in our general diagnostics: urgent and non-urgent. Urgency is based on the status of the file that the bad link is in; files that have a status close to publication should have their links corrected more quickly than those that are in early stages of encoding or remediation. To check bad internal links in your files: Open LEMDO diagnostics through the Resources tab in the top navigation bar of the LEMDO-dev site. If you want to check links in one edition only, type the edition abbreviation in the filter text box. Otherwise, leave it blank. Navigate to the Bad Internal Links diagnostics and check if your files are listed under them. If your files are listed under the bad internal links diagnostics, search your edition for the links listed and correct the links.

Practice: Check External Links Using the Anthology External Links List

Before an anthology can be released, all of its external links must be checked. LEMDO lists all of the external links for each anthology in the anthology’s Jenkins Web page.

To check your anthology’s external links, ask LEMDO Director Janelle Jenstad (lemdo@uvic.ca) to have your anthology’s link check pages added to HCMC’s server. The pages must be uploaded to the HCMC server before external links can be checked. Once they have uploaded the pages, either the LEMDO director or an HCMC developer will tell you where to find your link check pages.

Your anthology’s link check index page on the HCMC server will provide you with instructions to use the W3C Link Checker. Using this tool will allow you to find any 301 (permanently moved pages), 302 (redirected pages), and 404 (dead link) errors.

If there are any link errors, search across your anthology and its editions for the bad URL to and correct any instances of it.

Other Resources LEMDO YouTube video: Releasing Your Anthology (Technical)