Distant Reader "study carrels": A manifest

The results of the Distant Reader process is the creation of a "study carrel" -- a set of structured data files intended to help you to further "read" your corpus. This document enumerates & outlines the contents of a study carrel. A future blog posting will describe ways to use & understand the files outlined here. Therefore, the text below is merely a manifest of a typical Distant Reader study carrel.

The Distant Reader takes an arbitrary amount of unstructured data (text) as input, and it outputs sets of structured data files for analysis -- reading. Given a corpus of any size, the Distant Reader will analyze the corpus, and it will output a myriad of reports enabling you to use & understand the corpus. The Distant Reader is intended to supplement the traditional reading process. Given a question of a rather quantitative nature, a Distant Reader study carrel may very well contain a plausible answer.

The results of downloading and uncompressing the Distant Reader study carrel is a directory/folder containing a standard set of files and subdirectories. Each of these files and subdirectories are listed and described below:

Links

[1] Airivata - https://airavata.apache.org


Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>
December 26, 2019