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Welcome to the homepage for the September 2011 Launch CWRCshop

Please join us to celebrate the formal launch of the CWRC infrastructure project to support collaborative online research on writing in and about Canada.

Please RSVP by September 26nd to cwrc@ualberta.ca

Location: Humanities Centre; rooms 1-11, 4-29, L3

Tentative Schedule

Friday

9:00 AM - Introduction of participants; overview of CWRC - Room 1-11

9:30 AM - Visualization and text analysis tools (Voyant): engaging with literary texts - Room 1-11

10:45 AM - Coffee break

11:00 AM - Visualization tools (Ovis, Six Degrees of Separation, Breadboard)

12:30 PM - Lunch: Breakout groups: Emergent Scholars Group; Events group; other groups as decided

1:30 PM - Dr. Laura Mandell: workshop keynote

MODS Editor, CWRCWriter, Table of Contexts, JiTR

Saturday

Authority lists, metadata, and markup

Lunch: breakout groups as decided

Policies: Project Charters; Terms of Use; Research support policies

Wrap-up; ways to stay involved.

[Further scheduling details to follow.]

Visualization

We will be testing evaluating a number of visualization tools for possible inclusion in CWRC. Some of these tools use Orlando project data as sample data. Others, however, allow you to import your own texts for visualization and analysis.

If you would like to play with materials that are relevant to your research, you will want to prepare them in advance so that you can import them into the tools. The instructions below are meant to be easy-to-follow directions that require only basic computer literacy. (If you have any suggestions for how the directions themselves could be made more user-friendly, please send them to cwrc [the at sign] ualberta [a dot] ca.

Corpus Creation Instructions

Below are instructions for creating corpora for use with the Voyeur and Mandala visualization tools.

Corpus Creation Instructions

Visualization Tools

Here is a link to a list of visualization tools that may be used in the workshop, with links to the tools and instructions on how to use them:

List of visualization tools