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Jewish Journal of Los Angeles article on Mapping Jewish LA Project
The Boyle Heights project is part of a five-year study, “Mapping Jewish Los Angeles,” which combines old-fashioned archival research with advanced digital techniques.
Presner, the project head and the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, labels the construct alternatively as digital archaeology, information navigation, hypermedia and time-space documentation.
“We can now truly travel back in history through four-dimensional mapping techniques, which add “time” to the three dimensions of space,” he said during an interview in his small campus office, crammed with books and computer equipment.
