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The Black Press Research Collective Newspaper Project: Visualizing the History of the Black Press in the United States
- Project Director(s):
- Kim Gallon, Hollis Robbins (see profile)
- Author(s):
- Kim Gallon, Hollis Robbins (see profile)
- Date:
- 2015
- Group(s):
- Data Rescue, Digital Humanists
- Subject(s):
- African Americans, History, African Americans--Study and teaching, Digital humanities, Digital media, Learning and scholarship--Data processing, Journalism
- Item Type:
- White paper
- Institution:
- Johns Hopkins University
- Tag(s):
- Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants, NEH Digital Humanities, NEH White papers, African American history, African American studies, Digital archives, Digital scholarship, Digital scholarship/history
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M62H2P
- Abstract:
- In a little over a decade, historical and contemporary black newspapers have been digitized at a rapid rate. Yet a critical body of scholarship of these newspapers' impact continues to lag behind the technological developments, which have made these newspapers available to scholars and students. This dearth, in part, results from insufficient digital tools, which might assist researchers in understanding the geographic scope and social magnitude of the Black Press. The Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University and the Black Press Research Collective (BPRC) propose to develop a two-day workshop to discuss the development of mapping and geocoding tools and data visualization authoring programs to assist scholars in producing traditional and digital humanities scholarship on the Black Press. The workshop will bring together key Black Press scholars, librarians, archivists and data visualization experts to develop plans to create data visualizations from select data on the Black Press. The workshop will result in a white paper on the state of scholarship on the Black Press and proposals to develop a set of visualizations of its history.
- Notes:
- A two-day workshop to discuss the development of mapping and geocoding tools & data visualization authoring programs to assist scholars working with the Black Press.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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