Session Title: SEASR Overview

Importance of the Topic

Many projects are making available unprecedented volumes of information; they are also creating a heterogeneous spectrum of disruptive tools providing researchers with new and unforeseen ways of interacting with that information. This effort is to support the development of a state-of-the-art software environment for data management and analysis of digital libraries, repositories and archives, as well as educational platforms that are expected to contribute to many of the humanities. We will provide an overview and motivation for the SEASR project with example applications. This will include a brief overview of the technologies developed.

Focus of the Topic

Upon completion of this session, participants will understand:

• What SEASR is
• What SEASR can do
• Example applications that leverage SEASR
• How to execute SEASR flows from the Community Hub

Format of the Session

• Introduction of Attendees
• Attendee Expectation
• Presentation
• Demonstration
• Learning Exercise
• Discussion Questions
• Summary and Review

Attendee Expectation

• Explore tool usage during learning exercises
• Participate in discussion
• Develop a plan for how SEASR could benefit your work
• Present and discuss plan on Friday

Presentation

• Link to these Course Notes online can be found at http://dev-tools.seasr.org/confluence/display/Outreach/DHSI-SEASR
• Slides can be found at http://dev-tools.seasr.org/confluence/display/Outreach/Presentations

Demonstration

• Community Hub
  • Keyword Cloud Functionality
    • Tag Cloud Viewer

Learning Exercises

1. Explore Community Hub's Keyword Cloud Functionality
   1. Open browser and go to http://seasr.org
   2. Click on "View Projects"
   3. Click on "Keyword Cloud"
   4. Click on "visualization" to see all the existing applications that have a tag of "visualization"
   5. Click on "cluster" to see all the existing applications that have a tag of "visualization" and "cluster"
   6. Click on the delete button to remove "cluster" from the selection
   7. Click on the "Tag Cloud Viewer" for more detail information about this application
2. Perform analysis using "Tag Cloud Viewer" on a hard coded web page
   1. Open browser and go to http://seasr.org/documentation/example-flows/tag-cloud-viewer/
   2. Click on the "Execute" button to launch the creation of a tag cloud view for "Emma" by Jane Austen retrieved from Project Gutenberg
3. Perform analysis using Tag Cloud Viewer" on a webpage of your choice
   1. Open browser and go to http://seasr.org/documentation/example-flows/tag-cloud-viewer/
   2. Find a web url that you are interested in analyzing
   3. Click on the "Custom Execute" button to launch the application where you can copy and paste a web url that you are interested in analyzing

Discussion Questions

• What are data repositories that you utilize in your scholarly research?
• What tools or applications are being utilized against these repositories?

Summary and Review