@article{7db0f6416e9746ef8b1ea8e12b5b4528,
title = "The embryo project: An integrated approach to history, practices, and social contexts of embryo research",
abstract = "This essay describes the approach and early results of the collaborative Embryo Project and its on-line encyclopedia (http://embryo.asu.edu). The project is based on a relational database that allows federated searches and inclusion of multiple types of objects targeted for multiple user groups. The emphasis is on the history and varied contexts of developmental biology, focusing on people, places, institutions, techniques, literature, images, and other aspects of study of embryos. This essay introduces the ways of working as well as the long-term goals of the project. We invite others to join the effort, both in this particular project and in joining together in digital collection, archiving, and knowledge generation at the borders of biology and history.",
keywords = "Databases, Developmental biology, Digital humanities, Embryo, Embryo project, Embryology, History",
author = "Jane Maienschein and Manfred Laubichler",
note = "Funding Information: A collaborative interdisciplinary team based at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, started with a major grant through the Human and Social Dynamics Initiative at the U.S. National Science Foundation. This grant has funded the research and discovery component of the Funding Information: This project has benefited tremendously from grant support from the National Science Foundation (SES 0623176, 0914069, 0645729) and Arizona State University, and from the support and guidance of our institutional partners at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and the Marine Biological Laboratory-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library. Felicity Snyder, Andrew Hamilton, and Grant Yamashita have provided far more in the way of intellectual leadership than can be indicated on the website, as have Marie Glitz, Mary Sunderland, and Cera Lawrence. Grant Ya-mashita has developed the timelines and has made possible the intellectual content as well as the images in the other figures. ASU librarians John Howard and Philip Konomos have played indispensable intellectual and implementation roles. MBL-WHOI Library Director Cathy Norton and MBL Director Gary Borisy have provided tremendous support and encouragement, as has the MBL technical team.",
year = "2010",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1007/s10739-009-9204-1",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "43",
pages = "1--16",
journal = "Journal of the History of Biology",
issn = "0022-5010",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "1",
}