After gathering documents from newspapers and other media sources for its collections of materials, WE1S assigns metadata tags to many of the publication sources that put them in categories–e.g., which regions of the U.S or world the publications are from; whether a source is a student newspaper (and, if so, from what kind of university); whether a source has a self-identified association with a political, racial/ethnic, or other group; or what kind of medium the source publishes in.

Use the “Select Tag” menu below to choose a tag such as “region/US/Midwest” or “education/institution/US public college” to see what publications in our sources are in those categories. This gives a quick sense of the kinds of sources in our corpus. The main use of these tags, however, is to assist researchers who download our datasets about gathered materials–term frequency counts, etc. (with no readable plain text due to copyright and other restrictions)–in analysis work. For example, our tags make it possible to ask such research questions as: “is a specific topic in a topic model most associated with news sources from the U.S. West or South, or with public or private universities?”

Note:: Title = Publication title | Name = version of name in WE1S data | Aliases = versions of publication title (may be multiple)