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• Any browser should work fine.
• Your exploration will begin here. If this doesn't render, open https://bookworm.htrc.illinois.edu/develop/, clear filtering, replace the two terms with "NOW" and "ERA", and run the search.
• Discussion of the use of the tool is at https://wiki.htrc.illinois.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=26705922 (the most helpful example is in the section "Inuit or Eskimo"See the bottom of the page under the heading "Using HT+BW)
• (Extremely short) description of underlying data is here, and greater documentation here.
• Choose roles of recorder and presenter

As a group explore and discuss

• Spend some time exploring the notes about the underlying data.  What kind of text data is this?
  • Is the text clean? Indexed? Filtered? Anything else interesting you note about the data?
• Explore the functions of the tool.  Attempt to make claims about the intellectual content of the text based on the tool and its visualizations. (Feel free to reach a little; definitely refine and make the input better.)
  • faceting by subject, genre, language of publication
• Consider the value of the tool
  
  • What can you manage to do?  What is this tool good for?
  • What sorts of things did you want to do, but could not?
  • What can you infer from the interface about the text? What is still opaque?

After your exploration, be prepared to report your findings to the other team(s) and take their questions.

Bringing it back together

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