Summer!

(1) Summer Development Plans

Currently, Alan projects he will have about $3,000 of his UCSB Academic Senate research grant left by beginning of June (or about 200 hours at the RA rate of $15/hr)
Alan has applied for another Academic Senate research grant to continue the project next year (should hear thismonth)

Alan has recruited RA's for collection runs of New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USAToday, The Guardian, NPR, etc.:

Prepping the workstations in Transcriptions lab with full "kit" of tools, workspace folders, manifest forms

If possible, we will also start pre-processing (scrubbing, and if necessary also chunking), e.g. using Lexos.

Ensure we have latest version of Mallet installed on the workstations and on our personal computers.
Work out the kinks in local installations of Mallet
Decide on number of topics
Pre-organize storage scheme and manifest tracking forms

If Alan gets another round of funding from the UCSB Academic Senate, he can try to recruit MAT grad students to help with developing the Web form system for manifests.

(1) Data Storage & CMS

Scott (from last meeting): documentation of the MongoDB model: https://github.com/scottkleinman/WE1S. ("Read the README first, and then move on to the Draft Schema document. Apologies that neither document is particularly short.")
Current Progress toward the following goal (from the to-do's that came out of our last meeting)?: "Scott, Jeremy, and Chris will convene as a subcommittee to discuss the MongoDB-based schema that Scott has started, together with server, CMS, and related issues. The goal, if possible, is to have a solution we can use for the June-July collecting runs. If that is impractical, then the collection runs can just create doc versions of the manifest schema we have already created (and we will migrate the data to the new system later)."