1. SAMUELS End of Project Meeting Glasgow Updates: Thematic Categories Updating of Manually Tagged Texts Changes to Historical Thesaurus Structure

2. Thematic Category Set Thematic categories developed to provide ‘Human scale’ categories – e.g. AQ03b Ghost/phantom Useful – for users finding search terms – as aggregation level for results of semantic tagging

3. Thematic Category Set Top layer corresponds to tier 2 categories – AA (The world) to BK (Leisure) Four further layers No HT subcategories listed (though contents not excluded by tagger)

4. Thematic Category Set BK02d01 Party: BK Leisure BK02 Social event BK02dSocial gathering BK02d01 Party

5. Manually Tagged Texts Two excerpts from Hansard - 1820 and 2001 Two pieces of fiction (Charles Dickens and P.G. Wodehouse) Biography of Thomas Jefferson History - Gibbon’s Decline and Fall Journalism Newspaper opinion column [Email thread and conversation transcript]

6. Manually Tagged Texts Re-evaluation of manually tagged texts necessary – e.g. ‘unity’ in ‘the centre of public unity’ 03.01.07.06-02 (society – dissent – concord) 01.16.04.01.01.02 (relative properties – number – unity) ‘History’ most affected? – Metaphor/metonymy particularly problematic ‘immediate eye of the supreme power’ ‘the weight of a powerful empire’ ‘compete for the palm of eloquence’

7. Changes to Structure 01.02 Life now split into: – 01.02 Life – 01.03 Health and disease – 01.04 People – 01.05 Animals – 01.06 Plants – 01.07 Food and drink – 01.08 Textiles and clothing

8. Changes to Structure Existence in space and time split Attention/judgement promoted to level 2 Aesthetics included under Attention/judgement

9. Changes to Structure 02.06 Refusal/denial moved into 02.08.06 Statement Place taken by Goodness and badness – this moved from 02.01.15.07.08/09, part of Attention, judgement

10. Changes to Structure Other minor changes – 03.04.13 Law now 03.05 – 03.10.13 Trade and commerce now 03.12 Trade and finance