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Abstract(s)
The scientifc exchange correspondence of the Dundo Museum Biology Laboratory (Angola), included in the archive of António de Barros Machado (1912–2002)
and Dora Lustig (1907–1986), constitutes a valuable repository of information for
the history of contemporary science, particularly in the feld of natural sciences—
botany, entomology, mammals, ornithology, primates, reptiles, termites, zoogeography, zoology—and of biology. This paper describes the application of the Records
in Contexts model to the correspondence collection, with the aim of representing
two realities: its production context and the relationships between scientists. The
exploration of the model sought to understand its fundamentals and, simultaneously,
model the information, starting by identifying the entities, attributes and relations
needed for the collection representation scheme. This study resulted in a modelling
exercise of the relations between 11 correspondents and the director of the Dundo
Museum Biology Laboratory, Barros Machado, regarding the work on the museum
collections which culminated in the publication of scientifc articles in Publicações
Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola [Cultural Publications of the Diamond Company of Angola]. In the future, it is proposed to apply the same scheme to
the description of the remaining scientists in the epistolary collection.
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Keywords
Records in contexts Archival description Knowledge organization Systems Ontologies Scientifc correspondence
Pedagogical Context
Citation
Santos, C., & Revez, J. (2022). Applying Records in Contexts in Portugal: the case of the scientific correspondence from António de Barros Machado and Dora Lustig archive. Archival Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-022-09401-7
Publisher
Springer