This Project Development Site:

• http://4humwhatevery1says.pbworks.com

Handouts:

• Time sheets (& monthly/biweekly due dates)
• Calendar of possible July-August workshop schedule dates
• Log-in instructions on Transcriptions & CRC workstations or "WE1S" user (and the WE1S development environment on the workstations)
• Collection manifest form
• Instructions for scraping articles from the New York Times

Preliminary Logistics:

• Available RA work for summer
• Available RA work for fall/winter/spring 2-15-16
• Time sheets (& monthly/biweekly due dates for time sheets)
• Scheduling of data collection runs in July-Aug.

(1) Introduction to 4Humanities "WhatEvery1Says" (WE1S) Project

• WE1S Overview:
• Project Concept
• Project mission
• Document sources (plus possible later stage sources--e.g., academic vs. media publications) (Collection workflows and manual means for getting articles from other resources can also be developed by RAs)
• Stage 1: finding and scraping articles (example of raw plain text files mentioning the humanities in New York Times during 2007)
• Stage 2: cleaning, filtering (with stop lists), and other preprocessing of the plain text files.
• Stage 3: topic modeling of the text files.
• The idea of topic modeling
• Example of topic models:

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  Topic model of discourse related to “humanities” in New York Times, 2010-2014 (1,087 items):

• 50-topic model: (Viz) (spreadsheet)
• 100-topic model: (Viz) (spreadsheet)
• Topic model of discourse related to “humanities” in Wall Street Journal, 2010-2014 (301 items):
• 50-topic model: (Viz) (spreadsheet)
• 100-topic model: (Viz) (spreadsheet)
• Topic model interfaces and visualizations--e.g.,
• word cloud interface for above vizualizations courtesy of Scott Kleinman
• Web@25 topic model interface
• MappingTexts interface
• Other text analyses
• Antconc analysis of New York Times articles mentioning "humanities" in 2010-14:
• word list
• concordance
• collocates (20 words left and right neighborhood of "humanities")
• Voyant Tools analysis of New York Times articles mentioning "humanities" in 2010-14
• Stage 4: End-stage Deliverables
• Humanities advocacy strategies, kits, interventions
• Research publications on public discourse on the humanities.
• Project Team
• Progress-to-date
• Original spreadsheet of manually-collected articles on the humanities.
• Development of workflows for algorithmic collection
• Trial collection runs
• Experimental collection by Alan and Lindsay
• 1 April 2015 Rehearsal collection run  (Zach, Patrick, Alex, Alan)
• Output
• "Manifest" schema for documenting provenance of collections. 

(2) July-August Collection Runs 

• Schedule and Staging of Workshop Days:
• See handout of WE1S Workshop Date Options
• How the Workstations in Transcriptions and the CRC are set up for work by the "WE1S" user
• Collection workstation set-up
• Virtual environment for the Macs and Linux machines?
• Demo of What's Involved
• Agenda for first collection run (shared work on New York Times)
• To-dos
• Familiarize yourself with the project and take a look at the NY Times workflow
• Familiarize yourself with path/folder organization for storing working data and output data on Google Drive for NY Times
• Familiarize yourself with the Collection manifest form