DIGITAL IMAGE ARCHIVE ON THE AMERICAN EUGENICS MOVEMENT

在这项提议中，我们寻求为美国优生学运动数字档案馆的持续发展提供三年的支持。该档案馆旨在作为一种教育工具，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，其中许多材料来自冷泉港的优生学记录办公室，外行人无法接触到这些材料。在赠款的初始期限内。从三个主要档案馆收集了1230张图像，并将其纳入万维网数据库；提议前往另外几个美国和欧洲档案馆收集图像，以将图像数量增加到2500张。我们的目标是呈现有足够叙事背景的图像，而不是引导观众对材料进行任何“正确”的解释。为了实现这一目标，已经起草了11个“主题”，以赋予这些图像以历史、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对教师特别有用的网站指南，帮助用户在优生学和现代遗传学主题之间找到相似之处。目前所有的图像都以照片的形式出现，包括手稿、手写通信和打印文档；我们建议转录所有的“文本”图像，以便进行全文搜索。所设立的编辑咨询小组在主题论文的编写和编写以及在线出版政策的制定方面发挥了关键作用。来自EAP“工作组”的意见在第二个任期内将承担更多的责任，包括：提供其他优生材料档案的线索；为在线出版物以及为档案馆的光盘和“咖啡桌”图书出版撰写文章、评论和传记；在主持的在线聊天报告中担任“讲师”，并询问专家公告栏的特点；以及在优生学和新生物学：视角和平行问题上发言，这是一个将在CSHL班伯里中心举行的小型专业会议。除了扩大EAP的参与范围外，我们还将发起优生学史研究奖学金，为档案馆提供研究援助。

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.