Group Members: Daniel Lugo, Ben Lorenz-Meyer, Mary-Kathryn Wert
Progress:
So far, we have all gone to Eric in the archives to get some general information about rights and ethics regarding the online archives, some information about general Carleton president sentiment, and about possible useful pieces from the archive for our project. He gave us copies of The Voice, an alumni magazine, at times of an outgoing president or an incoming president, which gave information about their goals, accomplishments, and some sentiment about them. We then gathered some quotes about all the presidents represented and hopefully plan to analyze them or just use them for the website. We have not built anything yet.
Issues:
So far, the only “issue” we really ran into was that Eric suggested that maybe the specific interviews of presidents in the archives weren’t so useful for our project as some were very general and the newer ones required permission from the interviewed presidents themselves for us to listen, which is probably outside the scope of this project to do. We should have enough data from our other sources, though, regardless.
Tools and techniques:
I have just been using Voyant Tools for my Carletonian Corpus analysis in order to quickly get positive and negative words. Mary-Kathryn is using ArcGis for the CC buildings named after presidents. We are continuing to use the Carleton College website and archives for sources.
Deliverables:
We will still hopefully start and do most of our website as well as analysis before the end of week 9, and we have certainly done most of the research so far. We may need to do more (at least for the website) during week 10, but are not too far behind on progress.
Personal Progress:
Ben: I have downloaded one Carletonian from every year (one so far, might do two if I have the drive to) and done corpus analysis of number of positive and negative words associated with the president for the first 20 years, so president Strong in this case. This is in line with my section of work (just doing corpus analysis about president sentiment) from the team charter.
Daniel: I looked through archival documents that could be useful to the project. This included books that encapsulated entire presidencies, magazines of the Carleton Voice, and parts of the Carletonian, Parts that I found useful to our project were inaugural addresses and quotes from the alumni as well as faculty on the president at the time. This helps us determine what sentiment people had for each president as well as what each president set out to do. I recorded this in a Google doc and a shared Google Drive folder with my group. [In line with corpus-analysis in charter]
Mary-Kathryn: Beyond continuing to finish transcribing archival documents, I have also continued communication with the president’s office to try and find more information on the locations of presidential portraits and photographed the recent Steven Poskanzer portrait. I started the creation of the ArcGIS map by creating a spreadsheet with coordinates of buildings named after former presidents, more information related to each building, and watching a video to find how to set up the portrait photos when there is more than one. [This is also in-line with team charter as she is doing mapping.]
[This is well over 400 words but is hopefully okay with the detail.]