Refining Metadata for Travel Archives

Researchers attempting to access genre archives are often stymied by insufficient metadata. They frequently overlook collections because a processing archivist may not have described those collections in a way which would have benefitted their research. Historic travel writing, often the end-product of a travel archive, generally focused on pilgrimages, exploration, adventure and leisure (Arnold 2000). Yet finding these, and perhaps other types of, archives is a difficult task due to either too narrow/too broad or insufficient metadata. It is most likely the intent of the creator of the collection which foreshadows its archival description. Archivists can play a more active role in helping these collections expand their audiences by making them more accessible. This study explores, using travel-related archives as a case study, how archivists can better use metadata in describing genre collections. Looking at travel-related travel archival collections at The American Philosophical Society, The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Presbyterian Historical Society and The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the researcher sets out four objectives: to assess the current state of metadata relating to travel archives; to ascertain how researchers use travel collections; to suggest how travel archives can be better described; and to propose these remedies to other genre collections. To this end he answers four crucial questions: How are travel-related archives currently described (as exploration, expedition, travel accounts, cartographic, etc.) and what is the quality (based on standard criteria) of the finding aids to these collections?; How are these collections used by researchers?; How can travel-related archives be better described?; and How can the remedies for accessing travel archives be expanded to other genre collections? The researcher provides six recommendations as remedies for the problem of adequate access to travel-related archives. Using this case study of these four Philadelphia-based archives as a base, the researcher provides four recommendations as remedies for the problem of adequate access to other genre archival collections. But the fonds of this thesis is really more than just providing bibliographic tools to archival patrons. It is more than what all this research reports, but rather what it leads to. Where does it take a reader? Are archivists missing the point by only providing researchers what they, the archivists, perceive researchers prefer

A preliminary report on the placer gold deposits of the Rio Acandi Seco, Choco, Republic of Colombia, South America and a possible method of their exploitation.

This property covers the valley of the Rio Acandi Seco, in the district of Acandi, Intendencia (Territory) of Choco, Republic of Columbia, South America. It consists of four claims, or pertenencias, each straddling and paralleling the course of the Acandi Seco River. Each claim is two kilometers in width, one kilometer on each side of the stream bed, and five kilometers in length, making an area two kilometers (1 1/4 miles) in width by 20 kilometers (12 1/2 miles) in length, containing about 10,000 acres, the conversion being only approximate. These four claims are shown on the attached map as La Balboa, La Balboa No. 1, La Balboa No. 2 and La Balboa No. 3. The mining rights covered are the placer rights, lode mines being subject to separate filings by the discoverers. Thus far, no lode mines have been discovered or filed on, and there are now no owners of adverse surface rights on the Balboa property --Property, page 1

Juvenile Justice Facilities: The Best Thing for Convicted Youths

In today’s society, as soon as a child turns eighteen, they are legally considered adults and no longer need parental consent on matters. However, if eighteen is the standard age of the beginning of adulthood, why then, are more and more underage children being tried as adults, and if convicted, being sent to adult prisons? Society sets all of these age limits on what youths under eighteen can and cannot do, but when it comes to crime, apparently no age is too young to be considered an adult. In this paper I argue that children should not be tried as adults because the juvenile justice system proves more beneficial to helping these children, contrary to current beliefs. I will argue that the programs offered in juvenile facilities prove more beneficial in protecting both society and the convicted children as studies show that fewer youths released from juvenile facilities are rearrested as opposed to those released from adult prisons. Another argument is found in scholarly studies where physical and sexual abuse is reported in greater numbers in prisons than juvenile facilities. Youths in adult prisons are the main targets for abuse, and because of that suicide rates are extremely high. Finally, I will argue that youths gain nothing from being in adult prisons, while juvenile facilities offer so many beneficial programs for them. Once released, youths in adult jails have a much more difficult time adjusting to life after prison, making it easier for them to fall back into crime

Acetylene terminated matrix resins

The synthesis of resins with terminal acetylene groups has provided a promising technology to yield high performance structural materials. Because these resins cure through an addition reaction, no volatile by-products are produced during the processing. The cured products have high thermal stability and good properties retention after exposure to humidity. Resins with a wide variety of different chemical structures between the terminal acetylene groups are synthesized and their mechanical properties studied. The ability of the acetylene cured polymers to give good mechanical properties is demonstrated by the resins with quinoxaline structures. Processibility of these resins can be manipulated by varying the chain length between the acetylene groups or by blending in different amounts of reactive deluents. Processing conditions similar to the state-of-the-art epoxy can be attained by using backbone structures like ether-sulfone or bis-phenol-A. The wide range of mechanical properties and processing conditions attainable by this class of resins should allow them to be used in a wide variety of applications

The Auroral Oval And The High-Latitude Ionosphere

Thesis (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 197