Research Notes

By: Urmi Parekh (MA student in English at Northeastern University). In Spring 2022, I undertook an environmental scan on preferred practices for multilingual interfaces, in order to gain some insight for creating a multilingual/translingual database for Boston’s Chinatown via the BRC’s Chinatown Collections project. The important starting points were to learn more about the community’s…

As I have been working with The East Boston Community News (EBCN) and thinking about how I could computationally derive meaning from the newspaper’s 471 issues, I/the BRC team decided to investigate two main questions: how do communities share information, and how do they envision their future?. As a way of beginning to explore these…

Digital Repository Service and Metadata Attribution As part of our initial analysis of the East Boston Community News, we decided on starting with running some form of named entity recognition on the 471 issues of the newspaper. The collection is currently digitized as part of Northeastern University Library Archives and Special Collections and is maintained…