Mapping Inequality: Redlining in the US

Mapping Inequality: Redlining in the US

Menu
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Projects
  • Blog

Projects

National Dataset Collections Project

Over the past 4 years, teams of archivists have digitized portions of National Archives RG195: General Records of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation [HOLC]. Now that the records are available digitally, students and faculty members are working to curate the collection and “datafy” the information contained within. This involves extracting text from digitized 75-year old records, designing queryable databases to house the information, and disseminating the information so it is publicly accessible. With partners from the University of Richmond, John Hopkins University, and Virginia Tech, the Digital Curation Innovation Center plans to georeference the historical maps and display them on top of online maps.

Final Product: National dataset relating to this collection

Skills Exercised:

  • Digitization
  • Optical Character Recognition
  • Data Analytics / Data Management
  • Geographical Information System referencing
  • Python/SQL Programming

Shaina Destine with Project Poster

Archives

  • September 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • August 2016
  • June 2016
  • March 2016

Meta

  • Log in
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Projects
  • Blogs

Precious Lite 2015 | All Rights Reserved. Precious Lite theme by Flythemes