Annotation Protocol and Freeze Record: The Evaluative Orientation of American Studies Scholarship toward the United States, 1949–2026

This record fixes the annotation instrument, model configuration, and validation plan for a study of the evaluative orientation of American Studies scholarship toward the United States, 1949–2026, before the validation and production runs. It contains the annotation protocol and freeze record, the codebook, the exact prompts and the minimal prompts used in the specification check, the corpus manifest, and the validation sample.