This repository contains plain text files and fascimilies of FSHS Annual Meeting Proceedings.
This repository contains several years of proceedings from the annual meetings of the Florida State Horticultural Society (FSHS) from 1894 to 1922. This project seeks to understand the changing interests of the FSHS at the beginning of the twentieth century.
How do the Florida State Horticultural Society's interests change over time? Do the titles of committee presentations, discussions, and special presentations reflect the changing priorities and interests of the Society in the early twentieth century?
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 01/25/2021 | 90 minutes workshop (questions for WH); 90 minutes adding txt files to repository and constructing README |
| 01/26/2021 | added general index to repository (1 minute); researched Articles for Creation process on Wikipedia (40 minutes); created Wikipedia draft Florida State Horticultural Society page (20 minutes); added terms to Data Dictionary (30 minutes) |
| 02/23/2021 | After updating my tabulation to all of the years in my corpus, I was able to run through Healy's chapter 2+3 exercises and found them readily applicable to my work. I really like the flexibility of R so far, although I'm sure there are plenty of challenges yet to come. |
-Uploaded proceedings txt files (01/25/2021) -Uploaded index (01/26/2021) -Struggling to find citable sources for Wikipedia page on FSHS. Fear draft may be deleted! :( (01/26/2021) -Split Proceedings files into Prefaces & Addresses and Papers & Presentations sections for easier searching. (02/08/2021) -Added 1922 to Proceedings (02/08/2021) -Really struggled with finding suitable regex to isolate sections of text at the midpoint of the Proceedings. Used Atom's Select to Top and Select to Bottom features to work around this problem for the time being, however this only worked for single year documents and is not scalable. Will have to find a solution for the multiyear documents. (02/08/2021)
Committee Report Documents
| Term | Use |
|---|---|
| Members | Per the First Amendment of the FSHS Constitution (as of the 1894 Proceedings), lifetime membership is open to any individual who pays a large fee. Annual memberships are also available. |
| Speakers | These are members who make speeches during the Proceedings. |
| Readers | These are members who read the Standing Committee papers during Presentations. |
| Standing Committees | These are long term committees |
| Presentations | These presentations are written into papers by individual Standing Committees and read by a member of the committee or FSHS. |
| Discussions | These topical discussions are held by members of the FSHS and are not prewritten as the Presentations are. |
Membership Lists
| Term | Use |
|---|---|
| Last Name | The last name of the member listed. This space is also used for company names. |
| First Name | The first name of the member listed. This space includes tiles (Mr., Miss/Ms., Mrs., Dr. etc) |
| Street Address/P.O. Box | The street address or post office box belonging to the member. This line may also include "care of" instructions or names of estates or homes. |
| City | The city that the member resides in. |
| State | The state or territory that the member resides in. |
| Country | Nation that the listed member resides in. Based on 2021 sovereignities. |
| Membership Type | Members fall into three categories: Honorary, Life, and Annual. Individuals can be members, as well as organizations. |
Sample Table: 2/17/2021 Tableau