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Hungry search for pi leads to transcendent discovery
Today is 3/14 – national Pi day because the month and day match 3.14 – the first three numbers of π. For kicks, I searched for the symbol π in ArchiveGrid because the term pi as a keyword retrieved a list of unrelated results that seemed as endless as the number itself. But π retrieved a more rational set: eight matches with direct links to online finding aids. One finding aid at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at University of Texas caught my eye because a piece of the display text read “Notes on transcendence of π,” which sounded profound. Mathematically, pi is a prominent example of a transcendental number, and I hoped to find a more philosophically transcendent connection between pi and something, or someone, in ArchiveGrid. And I did. Read on: The finding aid is for a collection of papers William T. Reid accrued between 1925, when he was an undergraduate student in Texas, and 1977, when he died in Texas after a lifelong career in mathematics. Reid was a mathematics professor at University of Chicago from 1931 to 1944 and at Northwestern University from 1944 to 1959. During those years in the Chicago area, Reid would have known a fellow mathematician, Ernst Hellinger. We know this because in Reid’s collection are materials related to Hellinger, a German mathematician whose career for 29 years as a university professor in Germany ended when the Nazi regime removed him and other Jewish mathematicians and scientists from German universities. … Continue reading
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ABOUT ARCHIVEGRID

ArchiveGrid is a collection of nearly two million archival material descriptions, including MARC records from WorldCat and finding aids harvested from the web. It's supported by OCLC Research as the basis for our experimentation and testing in text mining, data analysis, and discovery system applications and interfaces. Archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives are represented in ArchiveGrid.

ArchiveGrid provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions, making information available about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and other archival materials. It also provides contact information for the institutions where the collections are kept.

ArchiveGrid data is primarily focused on archival material descriptions for institutions in the United States. This reflects the contribution patterns for descriptions of materials under archival control in WorldCat, which make up the majority of descriptions in ArchiveGrid. We may extend ArchiveGrid beyond its current scope if it is necessary to support OCLC Research experimental objectives.

ArchiveGrid illustrates OCLC's interest in advancing issues important to the archival community. Our work within ArchiveGrid gives OCLC Research a foundation for collaboration and interactions with others in the archival community. We expect to share the results of MARC and EAD tag analysis, provide discovery system analytics for contributors, document investigations of text mining and data visualization, participate in community working groups pursuing improvements to description and discovery, and more. To support those interests and objectives, we'll continue to build this extensive and current aggregation of archival material descriptions, within the constraints of OCLC Research's committed and on-going support for this project.

OCLC had offered ArchiveGrid as a subscription-based discovery service until 2012 when that subscription service was discontinued. While the new, freely-available OCLC Research ArchiveGrid interface is not a full production service, it shares some of the same attributes. Researchers can expect to use it for discovery of archival materials, and archives can work with OCLC Research to have their materials represented in the aggregation in a reliable and persistent way.

If you have questions about your collection descriptions in ArchiveGrid, please get in touch with us. Interested in contributing? Please let us know that as well.

RECENT ADDITIONS

  • Circus World Museum - Robert L. Parkinson Library and Research Center
  • New College of Florida - Jane Bancroft Cook Library
  • Trinity Wall Street - Archives
  • Carnegie Hall Archives
  • Yellowstone National Park - Yellowstone Heritage and Research Center
  • Queens College - Benjamin Rosenthal Library
  • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum - Library and Archives
  • Bowdoin College - George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections and Archives
  • Illinois Wesleyan University - Ames Library
  • Bowling Green State University - Browne Popular Culture Library
  • University College Dublin - Special Collections
  • Ouachita Baptist University - Riley-Hickingbotham Library
  • Florida Historical Society
  • Postal History Foundation - Peggy J. Slusser Memorial Philatelic Library
  • McDaniel College - Hoover Library
  • Grand Valley State University - Special Collections and University Archives
  • Ukrainian Historical and Educational Center of New Jersey
  • American Congregational Association - Congregational Library and Archive
  • Providence Health and Services - Archives
  • Illinois State University - Dr. Jo Ann Rayfield Archives

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Portrait of Chief Joseph, 1877

Nez Perce Photographs, ca. 1877-1905. Washington State University

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