Discover stories from the Archives at NCBS
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Finding rabbit holes in spreadsheets
I joined the archives as a subject-matter expert in physics, to help create metadata – essentially information about the existing digitized archival materials that makes it easier to be discovered, managed, and preserved. My role was to look at physics-related material at the archives through the lens of someone trained in the field. During my…
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The Almirah – In Search of Jamal Ara’s Papers
“”Birds of Bihar… Birds of Bihar…” she would keep mumbling this over and over again in her last days. I am not sure why she kept repeating the phrase. Perhaps it was a draft of a book that she was writing, or a project she wanted to undertake. I do not really know. But as…
