For Concordance in Macro-historical Datasets - Agenda
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May 4, 2015—Introductions: Questions and Approaches
8:15 Shuttle departs from Hotel Santa Fe
8:30 Breakfast at SFI
9:00 Welcome and introduction to SFI and the working group. Presenters: Peter Peregrine, Bruce Bertram, Jerry Sabloff
9:30 Discussion of working group agenda and goals. Presenter: Peter Peregrine
10:00 Overview of SFI Templeton project and data. Presenters: Jerry Sabloff and Paula Sabloff
10:45 Coffee Break
11:15 Overview of IBSS project and data. Presenter: Carol Ember
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Overview of Seshat projects and data. Presenter: Peter Turchin
2:30 Coffee Break
3:00 General discussion of the three projects their samples, units of analysis, coding schemes, and data structures. Moderator: Jerry Sabloff
4:30 Shuttle departs for Hotel Santa Fe
May 5, 2015—Variables, Codes, and Units of Analysis
8:15 Shuttle departs from Hotel Santa Fe
8:30 Breakfast at SFI
9:00 Breakout groups first rotation: rotating breakout groups consisting of representatives of two of the projects will compare the specific units of analysis, variables, and codes they are using. Three rotations will provide each project group the opportunity to work with all the others. [We can try it to see how well it works, and then modify it as necessary]
9:50 Breakout groups second rotation
10:40 Coffee Break
11:10 Breakout groups third rotation
12:00 Lunch
1:30 General discussion of similarities and differences in units of analysis, variables, and codes. Moderator: Peter Peregrine
2:30 Coffee Break
3:00 General discussion of overlaps and potentials to merge similar variables across differing samples or units of analysis. Moderator: Peter Turchin
4:30 Shuttle departs for Hotel Santa Fe
May 6, 2015—Repositories and Data Mining
8:15 Shuttle departs from Hotel Santa Fe
8:30 Breakfast at SFI
9:00 Introduction to triple store and LinkedData. Presenter: Kevin Feeney
10:15 Coffee Break
10:45 Breakout groups first rotation
11:30 Breakout groups second rotation
12:15 Lunch
1:30 Breakout groups third rotation
2:15 General discussion of breakout groups. Moderator: Carol Ember
3:15 Coffee Break
3:45 Next steps: Toward Concordance. Moderator: Peter Peregrine
4:30 Shuttle departs for Hotel Santa Fe