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Software, E-Resource Transcription dataset from the Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection, American Folklife Center By the People transcription campaign title : Chicago 1977, people, places, and cultures

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Title

  • Transcription dataset from the Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection, American Folklife Center

Other Title

  • By the People transcription campaign title : Chicago 1977, people, places, and cultures

Summary

  • This dataset is an export of transcriptions created by volunteers participating in the Library of Congress crowdsourcing program By the People (https://crowd.loc.gov) campaign Chicago 1977: People, Places, and Cultures for 3,656 images from the Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection digital collection. It contains volunteer-created and -reviewed text, volunteer-created tags, digital collections metadata, and metadata representing the arrangement of the items in the By the People platform, Concordia. The Chicago 1977: People, Places, and Cultures campaign was fully transcribed and reviewed between September 24 and October 27, 2024.
  • The dataset includes transcriptions and data generated from the pages in the By the People campaign Chicago 1977: People, Places, and Cultures (https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/chicago-1977/). The campaign consisted of all then-available online images of digitized manuscript content from the Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection digital collection (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/collafc.afc1981004) transcribed in their entirety. The Chicago Ethnic Arts Project survey was conducted by the American Folklife Center at the request of the Illinois Arts Council to assess and document cultural traditions and places in more than twenty cultural communities in Chicago, and was jointly sponsored by both organizations. The collection includes approximately 269 folders of manuscript materials produced and collected from 1976-1981; but primarily during fieldwork conducted by fourteen folklorists directed by the American Folklife Center in 1977. The papers include field notes, logs, and reports. Documented communities include: African American; Latinx; Asian American; Irish American; Polish American; Italian American; Ukrainian American; Lithuanian American; Scandinavian American; Greek American; German American; and Russian American communities; as well as Jewish, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, and Macedonian American artists and groups. See the Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection digital collection (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/collafc.afc1981004) for all available online items for this collection, including photographs, audio, and video recordings, as well as additional contextual information.
  • This dataset includes: 2023514954.zip - a zip file containing a CSV file and a README file and chicago-1977_2025-03-25.csv - a .CSV containing campaign, project, item, itemID, asset, and asset status metadata, as well as an image URL, the volunteer-created transcriptions, and volunteer-created tags. This .CSV is the direct export of the Chicago 1977: People, Places, and Cultures campaign.
  • Note: This dataset may contain UNICODE characters or lengthy transcriptions which may display incorrectly in some spreadsheet editors.

Names

  • By the People (Program), compiler

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : By the People, Library of Congress, 2025.

Headings

  • -  Chicago Ethnic Arts Project
  • -  Ethnic arts--Illinois--Chicago
  • -  Folklore--Illinois--Chicago
  • -  Chicago (Ill.)--Social life and customs
  • -  Music--Illinois--Chicago
  • -  Folk music--Illinois--Chicago
  • -  Dance--Illinois--Chicago
  • -  Artists--Illinois--Chicago
  • -  Musicians--Illinois--Chicago
  • -  Chicago (Ill.)--Religious life and customs
  • -  Chicago (Ill.)--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects

Genre

  • Data sets

Notes

  • -  "Dataset created 2025-03-25."--README file.
  • -  Title from README file.

Medium

  • 1 online resource (dataset)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • NX511.C45

Repository

  • s-Online Electronic Resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2023514954

Rights Advisory

  • The text in this dataset was created by volunteers and can be used in many different ways. Some of the contents of this dataset may be subject to copyright protection. Please consult the digital collection at (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/collafc.afc1981004) for more information on rights and access restrictions.

Online Format

  • compressed data

Additional Metadata Formats

Rights & Access

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Digital Collections Management and Services Division

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Chicago citation style:

Transcription dataset from the Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection, American Folklife Center. composeds by By The People Iler Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress, 2025. Software, E-Resource. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2023514954/.

APA citation style:

(2025) Transcription dataset from the Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection, American Folklife Center. By The People Iler, comp Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress. [Software, E-Resource] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2023514954/.

MLA citation style:

Transcription dataset from the Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection, American Folklife Center. comp by By The People Iler Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress, 2025. Software, E-Resource. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2023514954/>.