{"id":19,"date":"2026-09-16T16:42:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/DESports\/projects\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T04:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T04:29:13","slug":"projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/DESports\/projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Featured Project: The LA84 Foundation Sports Digital Library<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Website:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/digital.la84.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LA84 Digital Library<\/a> LA84 Foundation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Focus:<\/strong>&nbsp;Historical sports archives, Olympic reports, coaching manuals, and cultural artifacts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Question &amp; Goal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The primary goal of the LA84 Digital Library is to preserve, digitize, and make searchable decades of historical sports literature, rare 19th-century sports magazines, oral histories, and official Olympic reports dating back to 1896. Its objective is to answer how athletics have structurally influenced modern society, culture, and public health over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How It Uses Digital Methods<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rather than keeping historical records locked away in physical boxes, this project uses digital archiving, optical character recognition (OCR), and metadata indexing. This allows researchers to search thousands of historical texts instantly, tracking how sports history, gender inclusion, and global events intersect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Who did it?:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The LA84 Foundation (originally established as the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles) manages the library and digital collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>When it started?:<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The foundation was created out of the legacy surplus of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, officially commencing its operations and community investments in 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Broad Scope:<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The LA84 Foundation Library and Digital Collection serves as a premier repository for sports history, youth sports development, and Olympic archives. Its scope spans rare historical documents, official Olympic reports dating back to 1896, oral histories, coaching curricula, and foundational research journals examining sports&#8217; impact on society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Are they still doing it?:<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, the organization is actively operating, continuing to expand its digital archives, fund youth sports equity programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Status &amp; Objectives Achieved:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> While the overarching initiative is an ongoing, permanent institution, specific digital archiving and public access objectives\u2014such as digitizing century-old sports publications (like <em>The Sporting Life<\/em> and early Olympic records)\u2014have successfully met their core milestones to preserve sports heritage globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured Project: The LA84 Foundation Sports Digital Library Research Question &amp; Goal The primary goal of the LA84 Digital Library is to preserve, digitize, and make searchable decades of historical sports literature, rare 19th-century sports magazines, oral histories, and official Olympic reports dating back to 1896. 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