crissyshan
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4 years ago Project Report 2
This week, we continued to learn more about GitHub, learning how to push and pull files from the server, as well as getting comfortable with the command line. At this point, we have all committed and pulled files from the server and are comfortable with our GitHub setup. We have also discussed our research more deeply, and decided that our research will focus not only on geographic comparisons, but temporal ones. This means we will be investigating changes in the song lyrics across the time period from the late 1970s through to 1991, as well as across the different Soviet republics and satellites. My group has collected a preliminary corpus of Russian songs that we might want to use for the project. I have also converted some of their song lyrics into xml files that we can use going forward for our first forays into mark-up. Speaking of markup, Misha has created some preliminary ideas for how we might quantify our idea of “dissident”-ness and what sorts of tags we will be wanting to use for this. We discussed further the subcategories we’ll use for this topic, and we will continue working on this in the upcoming week, since we will need to input these into the schema as elements/attributes. Our next goal is to come up with a preliminary structural schema for our texts. We are still in the early phases of our project, so it’s still rather slow going. But collecting some of our songs and creating a schema for them is an important step because it’s likely that we will have a lot of texts that we are working with, which will make a solid schema especially necessary. The schema will be our first step along the road to deciding what kind of reference tags we want to make and then marking our texts up with those tags.
Jacksweeney1
EsRessel
Project Report 1
Our group has settled on the Soviet Rock Songs project topic, but we have made some adjustments to the original project proposal. While we are certain that sourcing Russian rock songs from the Internet will be the way to go and should avoid any copyright issues, we won’t be able to use any Estonian or otherwise non-Russian songs in existing translation due to copyright issues. For any non-Russian song, we will have to look for the lyrics online in their original language, and then request to have them translated by some friends or colleagues who are familiar with the language. If any of our translations don’t work out, we will just be working with the lyrics of Russian-language rock songs from any Soviet republic. Outside of Russia, the other regions we are looking into include Uzbekistan, Belarus, Ukraine, and Mongolia (Soviet satellite state). Another addition to our project is that we would like to integrate GIS and digital mapping into our project because one of our group members is familiar with this software. It may be possible to track the movement of different themes or else merely express the popularity of certain themes over different geographic areas using digital mapping, especially considering that many of the republics we are hoping to look at are spread out widely across the USSR. Additionally, in the past week we have further familiarized ourselves with the command line and GitHub, set up a project board to assign and complete tasks, and set a goal to compile a baseline corpus of songs for next week.