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The Archive

'The Archives' - Collection of animal tissues, digital media, document boxes, the details of which this page is concerned with. Previously called NRA, now NURA. Consider using the Wiki's Search function if you have something specific you are looking for.

Archive Terminology: A list of acronyms commonly used within the archives. Everything from institution names to projects to departments.
Archive Technology: A list of Software (Databases, subsystems, etc. used within the historical NRA archive)
Archive Boxes: Physical boxes of the archives. Their storage, categorization, contents, etc.
Archive Tissues: Slides, Paraffin blocks, etc.
Archive Methods
Medical Records
Archive Database

Red Book

People

PERSON.DB and PHONE.DBMay be of interest...
SKS - Sean K. Smith: Computer Scientist
CRW - Chuck Watson: Director of NRA (National Radiobiology Archives)
RGT - Robert Thomas Glenn:
EKL - Earleen Ligotke: Archivist and clerk Preserves dog studies and documents
NAH - Nancy Holter: Computer Scientist
SDS - Shanna Schmidt: Administrative Specialist
James Newell Stannard* -
Ed Kidd* - (Director of ESTSC / Energy Science & Technology Software Center / Oak Ridge)
Philip C. Pulver (PNL)
Bill Morgan -
Tom Fritz -
James F. Park* - PI on Experiment 140
Cliff Burton - Database Administrator at LEHR
Charles Leonard Sanders (aka C.L. Sanders) (aka 'Chuck') - PNL/PNNL/Battelle Rodent Studies

* Deceased.

Timeline of experiments and major archive events

1989 - Creation of the NRA
1992 - ITRI files donated to the NRA. UC Davis Collection donated to PNL.
1994 - Transfer of Information to the National Radiobiology Archives: In 1994, the records stored on the VAX computer were transferred to the PC environment and converted to PARADOX tables. This was part of the process of donating the information to the National Radiobiology Archives
1994 - Morat.txt "DOE/RL announced today an indefinite moratorium on ADP equipment and furniture acquisition. This memo describes impacts of the moratorium on operation of the Health Risk Assessment Department (HRAD).
1996 - The NRA program was transferred from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), operating for the U.S. Department of Energy, to the USTUR operations at WSU in 1996. The initial transfer included a limited collection of paraffin-embedded tissue blocks, microscope slides, clinical notes, pathologist observations, and several pieces of computer equipment. These specimens have been cataloged and are housed with the USTUR archives. Although the original archive collection at the NRA included formalin and/or alcohol-fixed tissues and thousands of radiographic films, concerns over the storage of such hazardous materials, coupled with budgetary constraints, led to proper disposal of these items which therefore were not transferred to the Registries with the other materials.
2006 - PNL Materials transferred to USTUR as WSU.
2010 - All materials associated with the NRA program were transferred to Northwestern University.
2010 - "Beaglecon" happened in Richland, Washington in July of 2010. At this gathering, many key figures were present (Tom Fritz, Chuck Watson, etc.). This is where Ben was given data from Chuck Watson: it has been placed onto a 2.5" USB "Iomega" External Hard drive. There are also audio recording of this event (presumably taken by Ben), which Tanja mentioned she would like to have transcribed via software or service.

Beagle Data Congress

Todo

Unearth EasyCASE software. Open mystery files. SKS seems mostly responsible for leading the charge in using this software...
Maybe we want to have a chat with SKS?
Move vm to linux, automate .ps to .pdf print functionality.
Controls Database
Figure out what the deal is with Focus Hierarchical Database.

Unknown Terminology

Anything which is either partially understood or completely unknown should go here:

ANI - This is the name of a database table, however, maybe it stands for something. Knowing this could be useful...
AFIP - Possibly diagnosis codes used by UTAH, however, this is also an institution in and of itself. Possibly this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_Institute_of_Pathology Needs confirmation...
RIB - Possibly Diagnosis codes similar to SNODOG???????? Possibly "Radioanalysis Inventory for Biology System Description"
PAL - Some manner of computer scripts. Also Object PAL.
IRDS - Information Resource Dictionary System. A horrible little acronym that says nothing about what it actually is.
RDM - NOT CLEAR. There is a reference in 960102/HISTO/README.TXT: "These files are intended for use by the RDM consultant." Any chance this could be related to Roelee? PNL_DOC.SAM also references "Walt developed a report procedure, named NRA, on his RDM database management system." NRA_U_CM.DTR suggests this is related to a Microvax in Utah "The input file is a report generated by RDM on the Utah micro VAX."

Queued questions for persons of interest

Possibly a question for Prof. G.B. Gerber, Mol, Belgium
- Was RoeLee 84 used extensively? What was the nature of any data and does it still exist somewhere?

Lab Equipment and SOPs

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 James F. Park* - PI on [[Experiment 140]]<br>
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