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 and highlight many of the analytical capabilities and application uses of SEASR.

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 Project Plan
Presentation
Demonstration
Learning Exercise
Discussion Questions
Summary and Review

Attendee Project Plan

Explore tool usage during learning exercises
Participate in discussion
Design a project plan to use SEASR this week for some analysis
Modify and develop the project plan over the week
Present and discuss project plan and results on Friday

Presentation

Link to these Course Notes online can be found at http://dev-tools.seasr.org/confluence/display/Outreach/DHSI-SEASR-2011
Slides can be found at 1-SEASR-Overview.pptx

Demonstration

Community Hub
- Keyword Cloud Functionality
  - Tag Cloud Viewer
  - HITS Summarizer
  - Date Entity to Simile Timeline
  - Google Search to Tag Cloud Viewer
NEMA's Son of Blinkie

Learning Exercises

Explore Community Hub's Keyword Cloud Functionality
1. Open browser and go to http://seasr.org
2. Click on "Community Hub"
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
Perform analysis using "Tag Cloud Viewer" on a hard coded web page
1. Use Community Hub to open the "Tag Cloud Viewer" page or 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
Perform analysis using "Tag Cloud Viewer" on a webpage of your choice
1. Use Community Hub to open the "Tag Cloud Viewer" page or 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
Perform analysis using "Google Search to Tag Cloud Viewer" on a topic of your choice
1. Use Community Hub to open the "Google Search to Tag Cloud Viewer" page or open browser and go to http://seasr.org/documentation/example-flows/google-search-to-tag-cloud-viewer/
2. Click on the "Custom Execute" button to launch the application where you can type your Google query for analysis

Discussion Questions

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

SEASR Overview 2011