Testbed for the Redlining Archives of California’s Exclusionary Spaces (T-RACES)

Making publicly accessible online documents relating to the practice of “redlining” neighborhoods in the 1930s and 1940s in eight California cities. “Redlining” refers to the practice of flagging minority neighborhoods as undesirable for home loans. The project creates a searchable database and interactive map interface.

Duration:
2/28/2020 - Ongoing

Principal Investigator(s):

• Richard Marciano

Additional Non-UMD Investigator(s):
David Goldberg (UC Irvine), Chien-Yi Hou (UNC Chapel Hill)

Partnering Organization(s):
University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).

Project Website:
http://t-races.net/T-RACES/

Research Areas:

• Archival Science
• Data Science, Analytics, and Visualization
• Library and Information Science
• Machine Learning, AI, Computational Linguistics, and Information Retrieval

Center and Lab Affiliation:

• Advanced Information Collaboratory (AIC)