0. Preliminary Business

• Logistics of Team Work
• Reminder to everyone to keep Su and Paul in the Zoom meetings
• Optimizing table arrangements for team work 
• Using Zoom for screen sharing 
• Status updates from the AM and PM teams
• Team Dashboard | Research questions (preliminary)
• Team working folders on the shared G Drive
• Research reports from past phases of the project 
• Agenda for today
• AM — Preparing for the workflow in the coming weeks:
• Process of brainstorming and “operationalizing” research questions for week 2 of the camp.
• Getting familiar with available topic models that can be used in the summer.
• Workshop led by Lindsay Thomas on using the WE1S Workspace Jupyter notebooks to produce additional visualizations for models that are missing some visualizations.
• PM
• Planning meetings for AM & PM teams (continued) 

1. Preparing for the workflow in the coming weeks

• Process of brainstorming and “operationalizing” research questions for week 2 of the camp
  (cf., Franco Moretti, "Operationalizing," 2013)
• Good idea for teams to look over the Topic Model Observatory tools, TMO Guide and Interpretation Protocol (Word or PDF reference copies) to familiarize themselves with the kinds of data, features, patterns we commonly look for in topic models
• Possible brainstorming & operationalizing process:
• Teams quick-explore a model together, trying out ideas for getting at a question
• Keep communal, ongoing log of the exploration process
• Then teams discuss and write down an initial plan, plus a possible sequence of Interpretation Protocol modules to use
• Getting familiar with available topic models that can be used in the summer
• Resources:
• Registry of WE1S Topic Models
• "Start pages" for topic models (Index of /projects/)
• Table of all projects (searchable)
• WE1S Collection Census 
• Take some time now to:
• Scout out the available topic models, especially with your research questions in mind
• Begin looking around the models (in preparation for using Interpretation Protocol modules 1-2 to get an overview of models).
• Training on using the WE1S Workspace Jupyter notebooks (on the Harbor server) to produce additional visualizations for models that are missing some visualizations (workshop led by Lindsay Thomas) 

2. Team planning meetings, continued (Team Dashboard)

• AM Teams
• AM Team sheet on dashboard
• PM Teams 
• PM Team sheet on dashboard 

Look-ahead to next week

Regular Weekly Schedule in July-early August

AM sessions: 10am – 1pm   |   PM sessions: 2pm – 4pm

• AM Teams (Research Questions)
• During each week, each AM team addresses one research question. (However, in the first full work week [week 2], the AM work will also occupy the PM time.)
• Monday morning: brainstorming session for the following:
• Possible brainstorming & operationalizing process:
• Teams quick-explore a model together, trying out ideas for getting at a question
• Keep communal, ongoing log of the exploration process
• Then teams discuss and write down an initial plan, plus a possible sequence of Interpretation Protocol modules to use
• Conduct initial exploration of a topic model(s) with the research question in mind.
• Tuesday-Wednesday: Teams work on interpreting topic models. (In mid-week, the research question can be revisited to see if it needs to be revised.)
• Thursday: Each team produces a short report answering its research question.
• PM Teams (Special Tasks)
• PM team work
• Thursday “Summit meetings”
• All-hands meetings at the end of each week for project participants at UCSB and CSUN to share findings, ideas, problems and to plan together.