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Archive Terminology
'The Archives' - Collection of animal tissues, digital media, document boxes, the details of which this page is concerned with.
HRAD - Health Risk Assessment Department. Of what institution???. HRADnn is also the "Platter Code" for a series of MO disks that were recently (March 2022) archives to the NU Radonc disk store.
ITRI - Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute.
LRRI - Lovelace Research Institute. See ITRI
NRA - National Radiobiology Archives: An archival program that was started in 1989 to collect, organize, and catalog data, laboratory notebooks, and animal tissue specimens from government. The NRA is part of a greater international program that includes the European Radiobiology Archives (ERA) and the Japanese Radiobiology Archives (JRA). C.R. Watson
ERA - European Radiobiology Archives. G.B. Gerber
JRA - Japanese Radiobiology Archives. T. Sugahara and S. Okada
USTUR - U.S. Transuranium and Uranium Registries
DAVIS - University of California at Davis
RoeLee - Software which is a Histopathology and Necropsy system. There are references to this system in the Optical Archives. Tatjana is interested because it may contain electronic lab notebooks.
MO - Magneto Optical: A type of media which encased in plastic which on the inside looks like a compact disc. Rewriteable.
Paradox - A relational database used by the archives in the past. One of many.
Oracle - A relational database used by the archives in the past. One of many.
dBase - A database used by the archives in the past. One of many. Whether one considers it a relational database can be questioned.
VAX - A likely very heavy computer. These likely used 9-track reel-to-reel tapes which were later converted/archived to the optical disk store.
Papyrus - Some manner of software.
PCT - Pc Tools. Old DOS software but relevant because compressed files exist which utilized Central Point Backup
Alphatronix - Possibly an old backup system or software. References to it in the MO archives are present.
XCOPY - An old DOS command often used to make backups / archives. Commonly used when it is necessary to work with entire directories.
UTAH - University of Utah
PNNL - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
ORNL - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ANL - Argonne National Laboratory
WSU - Washington State University. The previous home of 'the archives'.
SNODOG - A standardized morphology diagnosis code.
SNOP - Possibly an old morphology diagnosis code preceding SNODOG. Needs verification.
9-track - A type of reel-to-reel magnetic tape media. We have (so far) discovered two of these tapes, however, digitization efforts are deferred as they are likely already contained within the optical HRAD archive which has been made available on the NU Radonc disk store.
Timeline of experiments and major archive events
- 1989 - Creation of the NRA
- 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.
- 2010 - All materials associated with the NRA program were transferred to Northwestern University.
Unknown Terminology
Anything which is either partially understood or completely unknown should go here:
RIB - Possibly Diagnosis codes similar to SNODOG????????
PAL - Some manner of computer scripts. Also Object PAL.
Datatrieve - Some mischief having to do with VAX maybe????
CSU - ???
IRDS - Information Resource Dictionary System. A horrible little acronym that says about what it actually is.
Queued questions for persons of interest
Lab Equipment and SOPs
- Atomic Force Microscope - Veeco
- pH Meter - Orion Star A111
- Turbo Freeze Drier (Sample Prep) - EMS 775
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