DIGITAL IMAGE ARCHIVE ON THE AMERICAN EUGENICS MOVEMENT

在这项提案中，我们寻求三年的支持，以继续发展美国优生运动的数字档案。该档案旨在作为一种教育工具，让个人了解社会的过去参与遗传学探索的主要材料，其中许多起源于冷泉港的优生记录办公室，已无法访问的外行。在补助金的初始期限内。从三个主要档案馆收集了1 230幅图像，并将其纳入万维网数据库;建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2 500幅。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，已经起草了11个“主题”，以赋予图像历史，社会，科学和伦理背景。简要（1000字）的主题文章作为一个权威性的介绍关键事件，人，和社会条件，促进了优生学的发展。持续的支持将有助于开发一个对教师特别有用的网站指南，帮助用户在优生学和遗传学的现代主题之间进行比较。目前，所有图像都以照片的形式出现，包括手稿、手写信件和打印文件;我们建议转录所有“文本”图像，以允许全文搜索。所设立的编辑咨询小组在编写和编写专题论文以及制定在线出版政策方面发挥了关键作用。 在第二个任期内，EAP工作组的投入将承担额外的责任，包括：为其他优生学材料档案提供线索;为在线出版物以及档案的CD-ROM和“咖啡桌”书籍出版物撰写论文、评论和传记;在主持的在线聊天演示和询问专家公告板功能中担任“讲师”;并在优生学和新生物学：观点和相似之处，一个小型的，专业的会议将在CSHL的班伯里中心举行。除了扩大EAP的参与，我们将发起一个研究金在优生学的历史，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.