John Stoner's Professional and Research Interests

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Introduction
History

General
American West and California

Archives and Records

General
Federal Records and Special Projects
Electronic Access to Archives

World Wide Web

World Wide Web Consortium
My Web Projects

Introduction

My professional and research interests relate directly to my training as an historian, archivist, and librarian. I received my Master of Arts in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where I did doctoral work and specialized in the history of California and the American West. In my studies at the School of Library and Information Studies (subsequently the School of Information Management Systems) at the University of California, Berkeley, where I received an M.LI.S., I focused on advanced reference tools and archival management.

As an archivist at the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, I've had the opportunity to use my training in a wide range of projects, including the Department of Energy's Human Radiation Experiments Records Search Project, the Department's OpenNet database of recently declassified documents, as well as the electronic cataloging of the Laboratory's own research and development records for uploading onto the Research Libraries Group's database, RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network).

The "explosion" of the World Wide Web within the last year promises even greater access opportunities to those involved with history and archives, and is an exciting challenge to those of us in these fields.

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History

General

History Resources

The Central Information Server for Historians, University of Kansas, organized by subject.

H-NET

The Humanities OnLine Initiative. See especially:

H-Net Guide to WWW Information & Sites
H-NET's List of Humanities and Social Science Electronic Discussion Lists


American and British History Resources

This site was created and is maintained by Stan Nash of the Alexander Library at Rutgers University.

History Departments Around the World

This Web site is maintained by the History Department at George Mason University and provides links to the Web pages of history departments in the U.S. and abroad.

American West and California

Edward Abbey's Web

A site devoted to the Western naturalist/environmentalist author.

The Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier

African-American cavalry on the American frontier.

TreasureNet's American West Images

Visual images of the American frontier organized by subject and state

Guildhall's Home Page

Provider of art of the American West.

Buffalo Chips

Provider of books, collectibles and calendars related to the Amnerican West.

The Bancroft Library

One of the premier repositories of material on Western Americana.

History, Culture, Economy & Natural Resources of California Page.

Part of the State of California World Wide Web site. See especially Kevin Starr's California - The Dream and The Challenge

Cultural Center

Part of Evergreen Technologies Corporation's (Eureka, California) Redwood Country Unlimited Web Site regarding the Northwest Region of California. See especially Native Americans and Early Settlers of Mendocino and Humboldt Counties, California

California Indian Library Collections

The California Indian Library Collections (CILC) was funded with the aim of returning unique cultural materials to California's Native Americans and making the collections available to all citizens through their local libraries.

A History of the Northwest Coast

Bruce Hallman's Web site devoted to history of the European/Indian contact on the Northwest Coast.

Chinese Historical and Cultural Project

Founded in 1987 as a non-profit organization to promote and preserve Chinese and Chinese-American history and culture through community outreach activities, the Chinese Historical and Cultural Project (CHCP) is based in Santa Clara County, California.

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Archives and Records

General

Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA)

The Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA) is an international non-profit organization of records management professionals. See especially Links to Related Organizations

Archives & Archivists

An electronic discussion list and World Wide Web site for the international archival community founded and coordinated by Donna B. Harlan and John B. Harlan since 1989.

NUCMC Home Page

NUCMC, or the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, is a free-of-charge cooperative cataloging program operated by the Library of Congress.

Record and Information Management Web Site.

Created and maintained by WebCrafters, this is an excellent Records Management meta-index.

Repositories of Primary Sources

A listing of over 725 Web sites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar, organized by geographic region. This site is part of the Special Collections and Archives Web site at the University of Idaho Library.

The Society of American Archivists

Founded in 1936, the Society of American Archivists works to exert active leader ship on significant archival issues while promoting high quality archival education programs, building effective coalitions, increasing public awareness of the value of archives, and advancing the identification, preservation and use of electronic records.

Sources on the Web for work with Archives and Manuscripts

This site, created and maintained by Chris Woolgar, University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, is a set of links to the home pages of a number of archives and manuscript collections, organized by country.

Federal Records and Special Projects

The National Archives and Records Administration Information Server

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the government agency responsible for managing the records of the federal government. NARA's mission is to ensure ready access to essential evidence that documents the rights of American citizens, the actions of federal officials, and the national experience.

Office of Human Radiation Experiments

The Department of Energy's Office of Human Radiation Experiments was established in March 1994 to undertake an intensive effort to identify and catalog relevant historical documents relating to the agency's Cold War radiation research using human subjects. The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Archives and Records Office played a significant part in that effort.

OpenNet

The OpenNet database was created as part of Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary's Openness Initiative to make information that is no longer classified more readily available to the public and includes references to all documents declassified and made publicly available after October 1, 1994. New references are added periodically as they occur. To see examples of the cataloging records for recently declassified Berkeley Laboratory documents, go to the OpenNet Database Search Form and in the Accession Number field, type in OOB*.

Electronic Access to Archives

Like Magic: Creating a Sustainable Internet Presence

A presentation by Greg Colati, College Archivist, Bowdoin College, presented at the New England Archivists Fall Meeting in Worcester, Massachusetts, on October 21, 1995 which details how to create Web archival finding aids using collections management database software.

SiliconBase

SiliconBase is the on-line research center for Stanford University's Information Technology and Society Project (ITSP). The SiliconBase resource center provides access to historical, cultural and sociological content regarding the history of Silicon Valley. The ITSP's long-term goal is to build a major collection relevant to every aspect of the relationship between information technology and society. In order to access this site you need to be running Netscape 2.0.

Finding Aids for Archival Collections

This site presents the results of an experiment to render archival finding aids (inventories, registers, indexes or guides to collections held by archives and manuscript repositories, libraries, and museums) in a standard, platform-independent, electronic form, using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). Note: HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is one Document Type Definition (DTD) of SGML.

TEI: Text Encoding Initiative

The TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) has developed an SGML encoding for a wide range of document types in the domain of humanities computing. The Text Encoding Initiative is an international research project sponsored by the Association for Computing in the Humanities (ACH), the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), and the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

RLG's Home Page

RLG (Research Libraries Group, Inc.) is a not-for-profit membership corporation of institutions devoted to improving access to information that supports research and learning, with the goal of developing the components of a seamless international information delivery service capable of putting catalog, index, abstract, full-text, and image information directly into the hands of scholars and students. RLG's Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN) is a union catalog of 75 million items held in comprehensive research libraries and special libraries in RLG member institutions. The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Archives and Records Office is a contributing member of RLIN.

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The World Wide Web

World Wide Web Consortium

The World Wide Web Consortium

The World Wide Web Consortium exists to develop common standards for the evolution of the World Wide Web. It is an industry consortium run by the Laboratory for Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In Europe, MIT collaborates with CERN, originators of the web, and INRIA, the European W3C center.

My Web Projects

Beginning a lttle less than a year ago, I became involved with authoring Web pages. What follows are examples of my work to date.

Professor Kathleen M. Noonan's Home Page

I began working on my wife's Web site about a year ago, and, as time allowed, continued to revise it. We successfully brought it online at Mills College this semester so that she could use it as an instructional tool.

DOE R&D Records Schedule

As an Archivist at Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Archives and Records Office I have been involved with the U.S. Department of Energy's efforts to create a new records retention schedule for the Department's research and development records. As part of that effort, I marked up the most recent draft schedule in HTML to insure the widest possible dissemination of the document. For those whose Web browsers did not support tables and other Netscape extensions, I also marked up an alternative version

LIS 190 Assignment 1: World Wide Web Resources for the Study of Irish History--A Sampler

My first assignment for LIS 190: The Web as a Research Tool on searching for and evaluating information resulted in a sampler of World Wide Web resources for the study of Irish History, a collection of relevant Web sites which I plan on expanding for my final project.

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