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sexta-feira, 23 de outubro de 2020

Pesquisa nos Arquivos Diplomáticos americanos: Presentation by the Office of the Historian - US Foreign Relations series

 On-Line Global Research Tactics for the Twenty-First Century: The Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) Digital Archive and Related Online Resources

Time: Oct 23, 2020 09:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 

Zoom Meeting


Presentation by historians at the Office of the Historian at the Department of State: 


A brief tour of history.state.gov


  • A central, online location for all of the Office of the Historian’s publications
  • Most notably, the digital edition of the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series, the official documentary history of U.S. foreign relations—among many other unique and valuable publications for the study of U.S. diplomacy & the institutional history of the Department of State.
  • To offer free, fully accessible and searchable editions available of all resources published by the Office and its predecessors; downloadable ebook editions; and open data formats. 


Selected documents: 


Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)

Principal Officers & Chiefs of Mission

Travels of the President & the Secretary of State

Visits by Foreign Leaders & Heads of State

History of Recognition, Diplomatic, Consular Rel’ns

Administrative Timeline of the Department


Additional publications and resources: 

  • Scholarly Monographs
    • Toward “Thorough, Accurate, and Reliable”: A History of the Foreign Relations of the United States Series (2015)
    • War, Neutrality, and Humanitarian Relief: The Expansion of U.S. Diplomatic Activity during the Great War, 1914–1917 (2020)
  • “Status of the Series”: information on upcoming FRUS volumes
  • Transcripts and videos from 6 conferences
  • Minutes of Advisory Committee (“HAC”) meetings
  • 537 free, downloadable ebooks of FRUS volumes for iPad, Kindle


Designed by Historians: 

  • Digitized all print publications using archival guidelines (Library of Congress, University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center)
  • Adopted open standards: Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), the plain-text, non-proprietary, de facto standard for encoding digital texts; and web technologies (HTML, CSS, and EPUB) for dissemination
  • Use free, open source software: eXist-db and TEI Publisher, which excel in the storage and search of TEI (and all XML-encoded) documents
  • Open data: all source code and TEI- & XML-encoded data can be downloaded from our GitHub repository: github.com/HistoryAtState


Looking ahead: 

  • 12 remaining microfiche supplements
  • A growing collection of published Office monographs
  • Improved search tools: new facets and filters for finer-grained exploration of the information
    • People and organizations
    • Document types and topics
    • Archival source repositories
  • … your ideas?

How to Reach us? 


Final Note:


Until we complete the digitization, the microfiche supplement’s placeholder URL is https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v17-18mSupp 




terça-feira, 19 de fevereiro de 2013

Pesquisa em biblioteca universitaria americana (Uau!)

A "Latin American Library" de Tulane University, o segundo maior acervo latino-americano do sistema universitário dos EUA, está oferecendo bolsas (passagem, hospedagem, estipêndio) para pesquisas em seu acervo, num período que vai de um a três meses. 
São duas bolsas, a serem concedidas com base nas qualificações do candidato, no mérito do projeto e na adequação da pesquisa ao nosso acervo. 
O prazo é 30 de abril. 
Detalhes do anúncio, com o formulário de inscrição,
em inglês: http://bit.ly/WRaJbX 
em espanhol: http://bit.ly/WRaKMY 
em português: http://bit.ly/WRaNbI