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Dividing Spaces, Dividing Races: Residential Segregation in Richmond,
Virginia (Web Project Proposal)
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I expect research for this project to take at least 1-2 years.
Researching the maps of Richmond, creating databases from census
data, and discerning how the two go together will be the most time
consuming aspects of the research process. Web-page creation can
be done with a simple HTML editor such as Macromedia Dreamweaver
MX, while photo-editing and graphics can be created using Adobe
Photoshop.
The least labor-intensive part of the project is the transcription
of the various court cases, newspaper articles, city council minutes,
and other print primary source material. This will require simple
transcriptions into an HTML format. Because of the limited focus
of my project, I do not feel it necessary to make these documents
searchable, but that may be advantageous should the project expand
beyond the boundaries thus far.
The most time-consuming, and most expensive, will be the creation
of the various dynamic maps for the site. The maps for the site
will be drawn in Adobe Illustrator or other vector-based graphics
application. From there, someone skillful with Flash will need to
put the maps on the web. I plan to learn Flash myself, but it may
take some time before I acquire the skill to create the dynamic
maps.
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