…lines of questioning will help form a text analysis and community newspaper research agenda for the Boston Research Center moving forward, and perhaps lead to a better understanding of how…
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
The Boston Research Center (BRC) is dedicated to highlighting the neighborhood and community histories in Boston. One particular neighborhood, East Boston, has been a hub for relocation and settlement for…
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
…them a label of Geopolitical Entity (GPE), Person (PERSON), Organization (ORGANIZATION), Facility (FACILITY), or Location (LOCATION). The general transformation that NLTK makes on natural language, is a transition from unstructured…
Early Black Boston Digital Almanac
…on Boston’s 1850 wards and census data. View an early prototype map, and for progress updates, see here. For more information, read the 2018 pilot summary, and download the full…
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,…