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fwd: http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov -- a web-archive 

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The Joshua Lederberg Papers site, <http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/BB/> , 
is worth a long look by anyone on the list who is doing web-mounted 
imaging projects:  it has a very clean look and feel--"elegant in its 
simplicity", as my old lab boss would say; the background narrative for 
each section of the Exhibit section is accompanied by a photograph of 
Lederberg from the time in question--a nice touch; individual text 
documents are available as PDF files, and all photos, audio/video 
recordings, and texts are accompanied by metadata files (which 
include--among other details--sources of reproduction permissions, 
links to higher resolution images when available, and, sometimes, 
recent annotations by Lederberg); text in the PDF documents does not 
appear to also be marked up and presented in HTML or TEI, but it is 
keyword searchable.  The photographs are not listed in NLM's "Images 
from the History of Medicine" database <http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/> , 
as far as I can tell. 

There is not (yet) a link to a finding aid for the collection (so one 
can get a sense of its bulk, scope, and content), but this is explained 
in a disclaimer which notes that arrangement and description are 
"currently underway in conjunction with the digitization of individual 
documents for this Web site. Access to the original collection is 
restricted until full processing and cataloging has been completed, but 
significant portions will be made available in digital form through 
this Web site. Some documents are not currently available on this Web 
site because of copyright or other considerations." 
<http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/BB/hmd.html>

Russell Johnson
STHC-L administrator


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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 19:11:49 EST
From: Joshua Lederberg <jsl@ROCKVAX.ROCKEFELLER.EDU>
Subject: http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov -- a web-archive
Sender: A Forum for Discussion of the History of the Philosophy of 
Science <HOPOS-L@listserv.nd.edu>


This site is now up and running, and includes the archived papers
relating a) to Avery and b) to J. Lederberg.  As the correspondence
also embraces a great many other figures in 20th C. biological
science, it should eventually be of broad interest.  That process
is under way.

Please be patient: what is put out on the table now is just the tip of
the iceberg.  What is to come will, what shall I say, be closer
to the mortal finitude that Hopoi might welcome than what
the sponsors have selected for initial public introduction.

I particularly welcome comments on the substantive history of the
reception of iconoclastic science as exemplied in the Avery et al.
episode, 1944, the claim that "genes are DNA".

Reply-to: lederberg@mail.rockefeller.edu
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