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Planning Document for Manual Text Harvesting
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by Alan Liu 10 years, 3 months ago
Project Overview
WhatEvery1Says (WE1)
The 4Humanities WhatEvery1Says research project is collecting a corpus of public discourse about the humanities (in newspapers, magazines, blogs, reports intended for the public or legislatures, etc.) and analyzing that corpus with digital text-analysis methods.
Our hypothesis is that digital methods can help us learn new things about how media pundits, politicians, business leaders, administrators, scholars, students, artists, and others are actually thinking about the humanities. For example, are there sub-themes beneath the familiar dominant clichés and memes? Are there hidden connections or mismatches between the “frames” (premises, metaphors, and narratives) of those arguing for and against the humanities? How do different parts of the world or different kinds of speakers compare in the way they think about the humanities? Instead of concentrating on set debates and well-worn arguments, can we exploit new approaches or surprising commonalities to advocate for the humanities in the 21st century?"
We hope to use findings from the WhatEvery1Says project to provide advocates for the humanities with strategies and materials for effective communication of the value of humanistic study and knowledge--with narratives, arguments, scenarios, and evidence that advance, rather than simply react to, public conversation on the place of the humanities in today's world.
Project History and Participants: The WhatEvery1Says project was initiated by 4Humanities.org in 2011. Currently, project participants include members of the local chapters of 4Humanities at UCSB, CSUN, and UCLA in association with other members of the Southern California digital humanities collective (including the Whittier College Digital Liberal Arts Center). Contact for project: Alan Liu, UCSB (ayliu@english.ucsb.edu).
Research Material
WhatEvery1Says Corpus
- WhatEvery1Says Corpus v. 1 (collected manually) -- in progress
- WhatEvery1Says Corpus v. 2 (extended corpus to be collected systematically or algorithmically)
Workflow (A)
Corpus Collection
- Continue adding examples of public discourse about the humanities in WhatEvery1Says Corpus v. 1 (kept in a Google spreadsheet). (In progress)
- Create a database site to replace the spreadsheet as a collection structure. (To do)
- Systematically search and identify online digital archives for documents to include in an extended WhatEvery1Says Corpus v. 2.
- Identify online archives of newspapers, magazines, etc., for which we have full-text access and that allow for searching and automated downloading. (To do)
- Create a method and script for identifying relevant articles for the WhatEvery1Says corpus (To do)
Project Dissemination and Publicity
- Post progress reports and results on 4Humanities.org (descriptions of project are now on the site)
- Explore writing co-authored article(s) and papers on the project.
- Organize a 4Humanities event for analyzing results of the project.
- Brainstorm ways of using the project to build humanities advocacy guides and resources.
Additional Experiments with WhatEvery1Says Corpus
Planning Document for Manual Text Harvesting
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