Mapping Photographs From Roger May's Looking at Appalachia Project
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Title
Mapping Photographs From Roger May's Looking at Appalachia Project
Date
2021
Creator
Elizabeth James
Description
The Looking at Appalachia project is composed of more than 800 photos contributed from individuals throughout the Appalachian region to demonstrate the diversity and complexity of the Appalachian experience. On the project website, the photos are housed in an image carousel and organized by state of origin and feature only plain text unstandardized metadata about each photo. I wrote a Python program to visit the page for each state, crawl the page for the URL of every photo and string of metadata associated with each of the images, and use regular expression to parse and standardize the data. This map displays counties represented in the "Looking at Appalachia" project, with darker blue counties having more photos included. Clicking the county will take you to that state's page on the "Looking at Appalachia" site.
