Boston Phoenix, 1974!

## Boston Phoenix 1974! finished! ##

You, our amazing Zooniverse volunteers made short work of all of the card files we posted for the Phoenix 1974! project, and we find ourselves without any more cards! Naturally, the project is far from finished. We need to download, parse, (edit?) and make the data useful to all. Below is a sneak preview of a set of 1974 author cards–the first set you completed.

I want to publicly thank all of you who contributed to this project. I am completely in awe of your dedication and attention to detail, and look forward to making this mountain of data you created into a useful, publicly available format. What started as a little COVID-era archival data experiment initially scoped small (1500 cards!), it grew and grew and grew, and your enthusiasm and appetite for more never wavered. After a breather, I'll be looking forward to putting together additional crowdsourced projects in the future to take what’s hidden and expose it to the world.

Here is a little spreadsheet showing how many cards per year the volunteers completed, which is a grand total of (drumroll, please) 144,656 cards!

Year Author Subject
1973 1025
1974 1504 411
1975 1161 1132
1976 1390 798
1977 1563 1285
1978 1609 692
1979 1828 1179
1980 1712 480
1981 1835 305
1982 1564 447
1983 1524 23 (1983-1986)
1984 1899
1985 1739
1986 1530
1987 1583
1988 1938
1989 2230
1990 1778
Total 29412 6752
Grand Total 36164 (typed 4 times) 144656

(One day I’ll learn how to embed Airtables, but in the meantime, click on the image and it will go to the view.)