The materials gathered here assist the WE1S project team in thinking about what it ultimately seeks in modeling the "humanities" as a "concept" or "discourse." 

Methodology and Theory of Concept Modeling

(readings related to understanding the structure of complex "concepts," "topics," and "discourses," including applied examples and visualizations with methodological implications)

1. Pete de Bolla, The Architecture of Concepts: The Historical Formation of Human Rights (2013). Press blurb.
        See also the site of the Cambridge Concept Lab that de Bolla directs.
1. Michael Gavin's post in response: "The Arithmetic of Concepts: a response to Peter de Bolla" (2015)
2. Linguistic DNA Project:
1. "A manifesto for studying conceptual change (pt. 1 of 3)"
2. "Defining the content of a concept from below; or: How to recognize a concept in big data (pt. 2 of 3)" 
3. "Operationalising concepts (pt. 3 of 3)" 
4. "A Theoretical Background to Distributional Methods I" 
3. Pim Huijnen, "From Keyword Searching to Concept Mining" (2015)
4. Glenn Roe, Clovis Gladstone, and Robert Morrissey. "Discourses and Disciplines in the Enlightenment: Topic Modeling the French Encyclopédie." Frontiers in Digital  Humanities, 12 January 2016. http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fdigh.2015.00008/full
5. Ryan Shaw,
1. "Information Organization and the Philosophy of History" (2013)
2. "From Facts to Judgments: Theorizing History for Information Science" (2009) HTML | PDF
1. __________ and P Hjørland (2010), "Concepts: Classes and Colligation" (letter to editor about article and Shaw's response)
6. Innovative Visualization Paradigms Related to Concept/Topic Modeling 
1. Heat-map visualization of topics overlaid on map (UCSB Space Time Knowledge Organization [STKO] Lab) -- click on "Geographic Mapping" tab
1. Related blog posts:
1. "Web@25: Exploring the Web-related research topics in space and time" (2014)
2. "A cartographic approach to visualize research topics in the 2013 WWW conference" (2014)
2. Unfiltered.news (Martin Wattenberg & Fernanda Viega) -- Innovative, powerful visualization interface for exploring news topics around the world. The default "topics less reported in [nation] is designed to break users out of their news bubbles/silos. Circles around nations on the map are populated by the leading topics on a particular date in that nation. Clicking on a topic shows where else in the world it is being discussed in the news and also what other topics it is associated with.