Mining 50 Years of ACIS National Meeting Programs
Nicholas Wolf New York University
https://slides.com/nmarw49/acis-2017
1. Building
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1. Building
Python for Extracting Structured Information
Final Tabular Form for Last Cleaning and Geocoding
2. Support
Burns Library Home of ACIS Archive
(Thanks to Christian Dupont of BL)
Idaho State University
Home of Justin Stover
(and his intern, Dalton Wray)
UW-Milwaukee Home of José Lanters
(and her deep filing cabinets)
3. Scope
1963 Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana => MISSING 1964 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign => MISSING 1965 New York University => MISSING 1966 University of Kansas => MISSING 1967 - 1984, 1986-1987: Complete 1985 Pacific Lutheran University/University of Puget Sound => MISSING
1988 University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota => MISSING
1989 - 1992, 1996, 1998: Complete
1993 Villanova University => MISSING
1994 Creighton University => MISSING
1995 Queen’s University Belfast => MISSING
1997 ACIS (no university host), Albany, New York => MISSING
1999 VA Tech => MISSING
2000 University of Limerick => MISSING
2001 - 2016: Complete
4. Contents: Cover Art
Southern Illinois Carbondale
1970
James Madison University
1979
U Pitt/Carnegie Mellon
1981
4. Contents: Cover Art
Chicago
2013
Ohio Dominican College
1983
Marquette University
2002
4. Contents: Scribal Marginalia
NUI Galway
1992
Stonehill College, MA
1975
UW Madison
1991
5. Analysis: Conferences
~ 7865 participatory "events" ~ 6033 non-chair/comment participatory "events" ~ 1864 panels ~ 143 plenary/keynote participants
5. Analysis: Conferences
Growth in Participation, 1967-2016
5. Analysis: Conferences
Growth in Participation, 1967-2016
UCD 1987
NUI Galway(1) 1992
Notre Dame(1) 2005
New Orleans 2012
Notre Dame(2) 2016
5. Analysis: Conferences
| Year | Conference | Participatory Events |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Notre Dame | 632 |
| 2012 | New Orleans | 603 |
| 2014 | UCD | 530 |
| 2013 | Chicago | 464 |
| 2011 | UW Madison | 399 |
| 2005 | Notre Dame | 396 |
| 2007 | CUNY Graduate Center | 373 |
| 2015 | Ft. Lauderdale |
371 |
| 2009 | NUI Galway |
339 |
| 2006 | University of MO STL | 302 |
| 1992 | NUI Galway |
301 |
Conferences > 300 (only 1 pre-2005)
5. Analysis: Panel Title Word Counts
Most Common Panel Title Words
| Word | Frequency |
|---|---|
| "literature" | 109 |
| "contemporary" | 103 |
| "history" | 89 |
| "america" | 78 |
| "poetry" | 71 |
| "politics" | 62 |
| "fiction" | 58 |
| "new" | 57 |
| "writing" | 53 |
| "northern" | 51 |
| "culture" | 49 |
5. Analysis: Panel Title Word Counts
Panel Title Words (as a % of panels) Over Time
5. Analysis: Panel Title Word Counts
Panel Title Words (as a % of panels) Over Time
5. Analysis: Panel Title Word Counts
Top Author Frequencies
| Word | Frequency |
|---|---|
| "joyce" or "joyce's" |
52 |
| "yeats" |
45 |
| "heaney" | 19 |
| "beckett" | 12 |
| "synge" |
10 |
| "muldoon" |
6 |
| "wilde" |
6 |
| "friel" |
6 |
5. Analysis: Panel Title Word Counts
Top History Term Frequencies
| Word | Frequency |
|---|---|
| "19th" or "nineteenth" | 42 |
| "20th" or "twentieth" | 35 |
| "diaspora" | 27 |
| "nationalism" | 25 |
| "ulster" | 16 |
| "religion" | 14 |
| "transnational" | 14 (doesn't exist until 2006) |
| "famine" | 13 |
5. Analysis: Panel Title Word Co-Occurrences
| Word | Co-Occurrence | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| "contemporary" | "fiction" | 20 |
| ' ' |
"poetry" | 18 |
| ' ' |
"literature" | 10 |
| ' ' |
"writing" | 9 |
| ' ' |
"drama" | 8 |
| ' ' |
"narratives" | 5 |
| ' ' |
"gender" | 5 |
| ' ' |
"politics" | 4 |
| ' ' | "social" | 4 |
| ' ' | "modern" | 4 |
5. Analysis: Panel Title Word Co-Occurrences
| Word | Co-Occurrence | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| "women" | "writers" | 11 |
| "poetry" | "heaney" | 9 |
| "poetry" |
"contemporary" |
18 |
| "historicizing" |
"america" |
9 |
| "yeats" |
"joyce" |
6 |
| "language" |
"literature" |
9 |
Select High-Frequency Co-Occurring Terms
(see https://bit.ly/2okFHP2 for full list)
5. Analysis: Participants (link)
5. Analysis: Participants (link)
6. Next Steps
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Disambiguate participant names using VIAF authority (automated) and then correct stragglers by hand
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Complete process of extracting paper titles
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Obtain last missing programs (help!)
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Conduct full accuracy review
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Provide searchable data (SQL + index), featured content (WordPress), and interactive visualizations (plot.ly & leaflet Javascript) on acisweb.org
acis-2017-programs-project
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