Palo Alto Civic Notes

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Abstract: City Council and other public meeting notes offer a trove of information informing a city’s history, development, and actions. Taken together, they can map a timeline of development projects and legislation. However, this longitudinal perspective is difficult to obtain unless one is actively following a project because the meeting minutes and agendas are posted as individual PDFs and, in its current form, is difficult to perform a full-text search on. If I wanted to search for the city’s recent actions with relation to Palantir or follow the development of an affordable housing project, I would either have to know in advance which city council meetings were related to the query in question or skim through the entire trove of meeting minutes to find what I am looking for. Luckily, technology provides us with a solution.

Type of resource	text
Date created	June 2017

Author	Quan, Christine
Advisor	Nguyen, Dan
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Department of Communication.

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Preferred Citation: Quan, Christine. (6/7/2017). Palo Alto Civic Notes. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/zj079gf0903

Masters Theses in Journalism, Department of Communication, Stanford University

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