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Aim and Purpose of the Project Three leading scientific organizations, the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and the American Institute of Physics (Center for History of Physics)(AIP), have formed a consortium to experiment with using the World Wide Web to locate, create and preserve historical documentation in science and technology. For selected research topics of manageable size but high importance, pioneers will be urged to submit personal recollections, documents or pointers to collections of documents, and comments on materials submitted by others. The material will be gathered in databases, using off- the-shelf software, through discussion forums and other mechanisms familiar to most scientists. If we succeed, our reports will show other scientific organizations how to establish low-cost mechanisms for gathering much historical information that would otherwise be lost. |