UM Meeting (2017-11-07)

1. Ongoing tasks

• Project announcements
•  UCSB RA hiring process
• First technical workshop (Markdown and Github): Friday, Dec 8 at 4 pm EST 

• Ongoing tasks
•  Magazines: "news magazine" rather than circulation/ranking numbers
• Data entry using Google form (posted on Ryver)
• Color coding of Corpus Collection List data sheet
• Questions/problems with data entry?
• Keep notes on usability of Google form as you enter data 

2. Adding new sources to WE1S Corpus Collection list

• Summer work: Assignments for Finding Individual Sources to Add to WE1S Corpus Collection List

• What we need to do: 
•  Organize WE1S Corpus Collection List
• Alphabetize
• Colors:
• All title cells should be blue.
• EXCEPT: Title cells that contain sources for which you have gathered data, but you don't know how/where to find them (i.e., which database to use, if they are stored in a database, etc), should be colored red.
• "Completed" rows: title bolded.  
• Determine which areas of focus from the areas of focus page are represented in the Corpus Collection list as it is now
• Create another document where we list the areas of focus represented in current corpus collection list and the numbers of sources in each category
• Other areas of focus?
• White House press corps list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_press_corps#Current  
• Determine which areas of focus still need representation on the corpus collection list 

To-do's:

• Samina will organize the WE1S Corpus Collection List (see above for details; also, standardize the "The" title issue)
• Annie will create a new spreadsheet in the Data Sheet for WE1S Sources collections of sheets called "Areas of Focus Cross-Reference"
• 3 columns: Area of focus, Number of sources (rough estimate), Notes 
• Annie and Tarika will split up areas of focus listed on Assignments for Finding Individual Sources to Add to WE1S Corpus Collection List (split US sources and World sources; investigate US sources first)
• Annie and Tarika will investigate the existing sources on the WE1S Corpus Collection List and see what areas of focus are well-covered, and which need work
• They will tabulate results in the spreadsheet Annie will make 
• Lindsay will copy completed entries from WE1S Corpus Collection List to sheet linked to Google form.
• Everyone will send Lindsay links of documents/sheets that should go in our "Links to get us started" post in Ryver (which we are now using as a kind of links repository). 
• Continue metadata entry using the Google form.