DIGITAL IMAGE ARCHIVE ON THE AMERICAN EUGENICS MOVEMENT

美国优生运动的数字图像档案

• 批准号: 6536461
• 负责人: David Andrew MICKLOS
• 金额: $ 22.34万
• 依托单位: COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-03-05 至 2004-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6536461
• 关键词: DVD /CD ROM; Internet; animal breeding; archives; behavioral /social science; behavioral genetics; bioimaging /biomedical imaging; computer human interaction; computer system design /evaluation; digital imaging; educational resource design /development; ethics; gene environment interaction; history of life science; human data; human migration; human population genetics; information retrieval; marriage /marital status; racial /ethnic difference; science education; sociology /anthropology

In this proposal we seek three-year support for continued development of a Digital Archive on the American Eugenics Movement. The Archive is intended as an educational tool to allow individuals to learn about society's past involvement in genetics by exploring primary materials, many of which originated at Cold Spring Harbor's Eugenics Record Office, that have been inaccessible to the layperson. During the initial term of the grant. 1,230 images were collected from three major archives and incorporated into a WWW database; image collection trips to several additional American and European archives are proposed to increase the number of images to 2,500. Our aim, without leading the viewer to any "correct" interpretation of the materials, is to present images with adequate narrative background. To achieve this, eleven "themes" have been drafted to give the images historical, social, scientific, and ethical context. Brief (1000 words) theme essays serve as an authoritative introduction to the key events, persons, and social conditions that contributed to the development of eugenics. Continued support will enable development of a site guide, of special use to teachers, that will help users draw parallels between eugenics and modern topics in genetics. All images currently appear as photographs, including manuscripts, handwritten correspondence, and printed documents; we propose to transcribe all "text" images to allow full text searches. The Editorial Advisory Panel (EAP) established has been key in the development and scripting of the theme essays and in the formulation of an online publication policy. Input from a "working group of the EAP will have additional responsibilities in a second term, including: provide leads to other archives of eugenics materials; write essays, commentaries, and biographies for the online publication, as well as for a CD-ROM and "coffee table" book publication of the Archive; serve as "lecturers" in moderated online chat presentations and Ask the Expert bulletin board features; and speak at Eugenics and the New Biology: Perspectives and Parallels, a small, professional meeting to be held at CSHL's Banbury Center. In addition to extending the EAP's participation, we will initiate a fellowship in the history of eugenics to provide research assistance for the Archive.

在本提案中，我们寻求三年的支持，以继续开发美国优生运动数字档案。该档案馆的目的是作为一种教育工具，让个人通过探索原始材料来了解社会过去对遗传学的参与，其中许多材料起源于冷泉港的优生学记录办公室，外行人无法接触到这些材料。在补助金的初始期限内。从三个主要档案馆收集了 1,230 张图像，并将其纳入 WWW 数据库；建议前往另外几个美国和欧洲档案馆进行图像收集，将图像数量增加到 2,500 张。我们的目标是在不引导观众对材料进行任何“正确”解释的情况下，呈现具有足够叙事背景的图像。 为了实现这一目标，起草了十一个“主题”来赋予图像历史、社会、科学和伦理背景。简短（1000字）的主题论文是对促进优生学发展的关键事件、人物和社会条件的权威介绍。持续的支持将有助于开发教师专用的网站指南，帮助用户将优生学和现代遗传学主题进行比较。目前所有图像均以照片形式显示，包括手稿、手写信件和印刷文档；我们建议转录所有“文本”图像以允许全文搜索。成立的编辑顾问小组 (EAP) 在主题论文的开发和编写以及在线出版政策的制定方面发挥了关键作用。 EAP 工作组的投入将在第二个任期承担额外职责，包括：提供其他优生学材料档案的线索；为在线出版物以及 CD-ROM 和档案馆的“咖啡桌”图书出版；在主持的在线聊天演示和“询问专家”公告栏功能中担任“讲师”，并在优生学和新生物学：观点和相似性上发表演讲；将在 CSHL 的班伯里中心举行小型专业会议 除了扩大 EAP 的参与之外，我们还将启动优生学历史研究金，为档案馆提供研究援助。