Library and Information Science Commons^™

National Endowment For The Humanities Grant: Dana Dorsey, Rhia Rae, Rebecca Bakker, Molly Castro

Works of the FIU Libraries

Presented at the 5^th Annual Library Symposium by the Peer Review & Research Committee:
This brief presentation will highlight our current work on the recently awarded National Endowment for the Humanities grant, "Enhancing Access and Research Possibilities through Critical Engagement with Historical Data." The goal of this initiative is to produce a set of open data resources, based on the papers of Dana A. Dorsey (1868 - 1940). The papers record Dorsey’s business transactions and consists of warranty deeds, mortgages, legal documents, and correspondence, which detail the properties and locations of what were the newly created Miami sub-divisions from …