{"id":1599,"date":"2025-05-19T19:58:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T19:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhcertificate.bc.edu\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2025-08-26T20:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:00:04","slug":"catholic-almanacs-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhcertificate.bc.edu\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/catholic-almanacs-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Almanacs Database"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Created by Yuchen Xiong<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yuchen&#8217;s capstone project was the first version of a database for the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/yuchenx063.github.io\/template\/index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Catholic Almanacs<\/a><\/em> project, a larger,\u00a0multi-year project\u00a0BC\u2019s 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.\u00a0 Yuchen continued working as a graduate research assistant developer for the ongoing Catholic Almanacs Project, and the current database she designed can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/ds\/catholic-almanacs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Catholic Almanacs Database, Digital Humanities Capstone Project\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RpJAbxB9ZOI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Created by Yuchen Xiong Yuchen&#8217;s capstone project was the first version of a database for the\u00a0Catholic Almanacs project, a larger,\u00a0multi-year project\u00a0BC\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-database"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhcertificate.bc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhcertificate.bc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhcertificate.bc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhcertificate.bc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhcertificate.bc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/dhcertificate.bc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1801,"href":"https:\/\/dhcertificate.bc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/1801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhcertificate.bc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhcertificate.bc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhcertificate.bc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhcertificate.bc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}