Created by Yuchen Xiong
Yuchen’s capstone project was the first version of a database for the Catholic Almanacs project, a larger, multi-year project BC’s Digital Scholarship Group has been working on. The overall goal of the Catholic Almanacs project is to digitize a series of American Catholic almanacs from the mid- to late-nineteenth century by extracting data from them, refining the data, and building a site that allows users to access it. This capstone project was a first attempt at the last step: constructing a searchable database and a web interface in an accessible, user-friendly, and sustainable way while also visualizing the huge efforts of the data collection process. Yuchen continued working as a graduate research assistant developer for the ongoing Catholic Almanacs Project, and the current database she designed can be found here.