University of California, Irvine (University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI))

The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), in collaboration with the San Diego Supercomputer Center, will preserve, analyze, and make 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.) UCHRI’s Humanities, Arts, and Social-Sciences grid will allow a central catalog to manage the preservation metadata for each city’s electronic file of neighborhoods. This important historical data will be accessible from any personal computer. The project will have the added benefit of demonstrating the use of grid-based repositories for humanities-related dat