…text analysis and community newspaper research agenda for the Boston Research Center moving forward, and perhaps lead to a better understanding of how communities express their activism in local publications….
Best Practices for a Multilingual Website/Database
…example, yoursite.com/content for your main language and es.yoursite.com/content for your Spanish translations. Separate domains – for example, yoursite.com for your main language and yoursite.es for your Spanish translations. Pay Attention…
Digitizing Boston’s Powerful Chinatown Neighborhood History
…communities with flourishing local businesses, community programs, and places of worship. Similar to many majority-immigrant communities in Boston and throughout the country, Chinatown was targeted for large-scale urban renewal projects…
Getting Started with Digital Historical Timelines: East Boston Social Centers
…spreadsheet. Finally, once the timeline spreadsheet was complete, she transferred the information from her completed spreadsheet to a new free template spreadsheet created specifically for a digital timeline platform called…
Northeastern and Boston
The Boston Research Center is part of a vibrant research and teaching community at Northeastern. Community-engaged projects and initiatives across the university focus on Boston through many different lenses, including…
Using Named Entity Recognition on the East Boston Community News
…addresses. Similarly, looking at a comparison of the Organization tag, you can see that NLTK is often tagging “Community,” “FREE,” “News,” “House,” and other such labels as organizations when they…
Early Black Boston Digital Almanac
Early Black Boston Digital Almanac The Early Black Boston Digital Almanac project models an approach for collecting and contextualizing archival materials to address a gap in many common narratives of…
Neighborhood Public Arts
…Boston are committed to collecting information on the city’s rich public art, including the Boston Arts Commission, the City of Boston Office of Arts and Culture, the Boston Public Library,…