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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
JNS - NRA J Newell Stannard Collection Materials Available at NRA Offices
USTUR - U.S. Transuranium and Uranium Registries
DAVIS - University of California at Davis
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'.
CSU - Colorado State University
MIR - Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology
SNODOG - Systematized Nomenclature of Dog. A standardized morphology diagnosis code.
SNOP - Systematized Nomenclature of Pathology. There is some potential mentions of SNOP being migrated to SNODOG.
REECO - The Fallout Archives is operated for DOE by the Reynolds Electrical & Engineering Co. See ADATE.MB and WWRIGHT.W52
SRL - Savannah River Laboratory
NTS - Possibly a lab, institution or organization.
NOO - Possibly a lab, institution or organization.
MSRDL - Monitoring Systems Research and Development Laboratory
UR - University of Rochester
HW - Hanford Works
BNL - Brookhaven National Laboratory
NESC - National Energy Software Center
ESTSC - Energy Science & Technology Software Center
Software
RoeLee - Software which is a Histopathology and Necropsy system. There are references to this system in the Optical Archives. It is unclear what data this software was specifically concerned with storing, much less whether we actually have the data or the corresponding software. However, since there are mentions of lab notebooks, if it were the case that lab notebooks were being stored in an electronic form, this would likely be of great interest.
Papyrus - Software: A reference database / Bibliography program whose main function is to store and retrieve bibliographic references in any format. "This particular software is necessary for compatibility with collaborators in Europe and Japan." See PAP.MEM institutional context and PAPR.DOC for general documentation.
Technology: Database Terminology
Paradox - A relational database used by the archives in the past. One of many.
.PX - Primary Index file used by Paradox
.MB - A Blob file used by Paradox
.DM - Data Model file used by Paradox
.PX .X* .Y* - Index Files used by Paradox
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.
DJ42 - Data Junction v4.2 -
Technology: Backup Software and Physical Media
Platter - Seemingly the name that was used to describe a single-side of the MO media. A platter-code would be the label of such a volume
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.
Alphatronix - Possibly an old backup system or software. References to it in the MO archives are present. Examine EODDIR, EO.SYS, EOVERIFY.EXE
XCOPY - An old DOS command often used to make backups / archives. Commonly used when it is necessary to work with entire directories.
MO - Magneto Optical: A type of media which encased in plastic which on the inside looks like a compact disc. Rewriteable.
PCT - Pc Tools. Old DOS software but relevant because compressed files exist which utilized Central Point Backup
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
Ed Kidd* - (Director of ESTSC / Energy Science & Technology Software Center / Oak Ridge)
Philip C. Pulver (PNL)
* Deceased.
Timeline of experiments and major archive events
- 1989 - Creation of the NRA
- 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.
- 2010 - All materials associated with the NRA program were transferred to Northwestern University.
Boxes
- Barcodes may have been generated by a software from "Worthington Data Solutions"
- The Paper archives consist of bankers boxes located at Pickens-Kane in Chicago
- HRAD51\PNL9NRA\JNS makes mention of a physical box inventory
- Things to search to try and find references to boxen:
- NRA Barcodes:
- 005096 or P005096
- D000278
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.
Datatrieve - Some mischief having to do with VAX maybe????
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
- Atomic Force Microscope - Veeco
- pH Meter - Orion Star A111
- Turbo Freeze Drier (Sample Prep) - EMS 775
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