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Symposium on Scientific Archives

27–28 Jun 2023
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Europe/Zurich timezone

Session

Session 3

S3
28 Jun 2023, 09:30
Online

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Conveners

Session 3: National archives and archiving methodology

  • Salome Rohr (CERN)
  • Jill Moretto (GSK)

Session 3: Scientific Collections

  • Tilda Watson (Wellcome Sanger Institute)
  • Eva Belonohy (UKAEA)

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  1. 31. Welcome to Day 2
    28/06/2023, 09:40
  2. 27. The web portal “Archivi della scienza”. A webportal for science archives in Italy
    Prof. Giovanni Paoloni (full professor at the University of Rome – “Sapienza”, teaching Archival Theory and History and Policies of Scientific Research)
    28/06/2023, 09:50
    Presentation (20 minutes including questions)

    “Archivi della scienza” (Archives of science: www.archividellascienza.org) is a web portal created with the dual purpose of facilitating archival research for historians, and attracting a wider audience to archives in general, and to history of science. The presentation examines some of the practical and methodological problems in its implementation and development.

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  3. 30. "Data or Evidence? Advocating for the Protection of Scientific Archives."
    Dr Laura Millar (Archives, Records and Information Management Consultant)
    28/06/2023, 10:10
    Presentation (20 minutes including questions)

    Data, records, and archives are defined differently, but they share a common quality: they can all be sources of evidence. For millennia, archivists have been responsible for capturing, preserving and making available authentic and reliable sources of evidence, from clay tablets to paper records and now to digital data. Organizations that manage scientific archives are at the sharp end of this...

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  4. 22. Discussion 3a
    28/06/2023, 10:40
  5. 10. Contribute to the history and memory of science in Portugal
    Paula Meireles (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia)
    28/06/2023, 11:30
    Presentation (20 minutes including questions)

    The Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) (Foundation for Science and Technology) is the national public agency that supports research in science, technology and innovation in all areas of science. It is a public institute under responsibility of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, created in 1997, succeeding the Junta Nacional de Investigação Científica e...

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  6. 6. The importance of historical biodiversity data transcribed from botanical garden archives: results from the citizen science project ‘Plant Letters’ on Zooniverse
    Dr Ana Margarida Dias da Silva (Center for the History of Society and Culture & Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal)
    28/06/2023, 11:50
    Presentation (20 minutes including questions)

    Many botanic gardens are historical institutions holding centuries of invaluable records of their scientific and daily activity in the form of archival material. To make readily available part of the historical information (1870-1928) produced by the Institute, Herbarium and Botanic Garden of the University of Coimbra, we launched the participatory science project “Plant Letters” on...

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  7. 28. Fight and advocacy for the preservation of the archive of the Magnetic Observatory of Tatuoca in the Brazilian Amazon: lessons, restraints, and obstacles.
    Cristian Berrío Zapata (Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA Brasil))
    28/06/2023, 12:10
    Presentation (20 minutes including questions)

    We are working on rescuing, digitizing and (hopefully) extracting data from the scientific archive collection belonging to the Magnetic Observatory of Tatuoca, at the Brazilian Amazon. This observatory goes back to 1932 as a temporary observation location, and since 1957, as a permanent observatory pertaining to the National Observatory authority from Brazil. The physical archive includes a...

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  8. 33. Discussion 2b
    28/06/2023, 12:30
  9. 32. Fight and advocacy for the preservation of the archive of the Magnetic Observatory of Tatuoca in the Brazilian Amazon: lessons, restraints, and obstacles.
    Mr Cristian Berrío Zapata (Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA Brasil))
    Presentation (20 minutes including questions)

    We are working on rescuing, digitizing and (hopefully) extracting data from the scientific archive collection belonging to the Magnetic Observatory of Tatuoca, at the Brazilian Amazon. This observatory goes back to 1932 as a temporary observation location, and since 1957, as a permanent observatory pertaining to the National Observatory authority from Brazil. The physical archive includes a...

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