(Access Password: joint 2020) This workshop will lead participants through the process of submitting content to the Distant Reader and through the process of using the results. The Distant Reader is a free, Web-based system for reading thousands of journal articles or hundreds of books. Given anything from a single URL to a zip file filled with just about any type of content, the Reader will: 1) create a cache of the original content, 2) create plain text versions of the same, 3) do text mining and natural language processing against the text files, 4) summarize the results in a number of different ways and in a number of different formats, 5) zips up the whole thing into a single file, and 6) returns the resulting zip file (affectionately known as a "study carrel") to the student, researcher, or scholar. The Distant Reader enables a person to "read at scale"; the Distant Reader supplements the traditional reading process. Partipants will submit content to the Reader, download a study carrel, and learn how to use & understand the results. For more information about the Reader, see
https://distantreader.org
