Meeting (2017-09-12)

 Meeting Outcomes:

(jump to notebook added after meeting at bottom of page)

1. Ongoing Tasks

• Status of new public Web site: http://we1s.ucsb.edu/
• Need to configure WP site
• Need to theme site
• Need to figure out a Markdown Plus --> WP post system 
• Status of research reports
• Team members to send Giorgina their reports
• Giorgina to edit .docx files (send images as separate files) to prepare for website document workflow

• Consultations with colleagues and librarians  

• Public-facing presentation of WE1S
• Alanna and Lindsay met Sat, Sept 2 to discuss this material
• Lindsay coordinated with Ashley for login to 4hum site 
• Lindsay to review and post material to the WE1S page on 4humanities.org and the front page of the PBworks site. 

• Research questions page  
• What kinds of questions are missing?
• What more should we add before we vote to prioritize the questions, which will serve as a basis for ensuring we are collected what we need in the WE1S corpus?  

2. Data Sheet Discussion

• 'Data Sources"sheet (green = go; red = stop; yellow = caution; purple = defer to subcorpus).
• "Sample Facet" sheet. 
• Controlled vocabulary for facets.
• Jeremy: progress in using data from the "New Canon Results" sheet and the "News Canon Data" sheet to generate an "impact"-score for news sources.
•  Priority Item: finalize facets & controlled vocabulary for the present (to allow nomination of individual publications to begin)  
• Issues Jeremy raised about facets at Aug 28th meeting of this sub-team: (Email from Teddy): "I like the way that he [Jeremy] asked the question: 'Which facets are so important that we shouldn’t do them?' By that he meant that some of the proposed facets might be too specific to a research question and therefore would need closer attention on a project-by-project basis. If there is disagreement, say, about a source’s politics, either there would need to be a guiding hand from the lead researcher in order to to appropriately label each source, or the project would need to incorporate disagreement into its model. The solution he proposed was to add an optional step within the topic modeling (Jupiter Notebook) workflow to apply additional facets to the metadata."

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• Data Sheet --> Manifest --> GraphViz
• Update from Scott, Jeremy, and Teddy (whoever is present from this sub-team) 

3. Set up for Nominating Individual Publications (plan the process)

• Create finalized version of "Sample Facet" sheet, rename "Individual Sources"
• RAs & PIs to be assigned to particular database sources.
• From this point on to the end of Sept., the task is for the RAs & PIs to suggest candidate publications by adding them to the individual sources sheet (and filling out as many facets columns as possible).
• At end of Sept, we pause and review the sources gathered so far to evaluate:
• whether we need to tweak our data sheet and facets
• the overall balance of the corpus
• We then also scrutinize the search/download trials we have conducted for the various databases. 

4. Next steps:

• Retooling the Virtual Workspace Manager to include ingest workflow(s)
• Manifest development