The “City Record Historical Project” Seeks to Catalog Decades of New York City Business
During the 2018 DH+Data Day event held at the Research Commons on the 5th floor of Bobst Library, Dana Karwas, an Industry Assistant Professor of Integrated Digital Media at NYU Tandon, delivered a presentation about the “City Record Historical Project.” The City Record is the official periodical of the city of New York, published every weekday, except for legal holidays, since June 24, 1873 and detailing the day-to-day business of running, governing, and administering one of the most complex cities in the world.
Tandon provides additional information on the project, including more detail and a look at what’s to come.
“Led by Jonathan Soffer, a professor of history and chair of Tandon’s Department of Technology, Culture & Society, the digitization project has thus far encompassed daily volumes from 1873 through 1947, and its second phase will cover 1948 through the beginning of the 21st century, when the paper began automatic digital publication.”
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- NYU Tandon Helps Digitize Decades of City Data (NYU Tandon News)