Metadata: Fill in birth countries of as many Oral History interviewees as possible.

[eddierubeiz]

I'm noting a number of interviewees, such as Omary have no birth country specified. I happen to know what country New York is in, but we should fill these in where possible.

bios = IntervieweeBiography.all.select{|b| b.birth.country != 'US' }
bios.map {|b| [b.birth.country, b.name]}.sort_by{|i| i.first.to_s}

@sunicolita , just tagging you so you can comment on this thread.

[eddierubeiz]

The above yields:

[[nil, "Wise, Florine"],
 [nil, "DeSimone, Douglas W."],
 [nil, "Padgett, Richard"],
 [nil, "Klymkowsky, Michael W."],
 [nil, "Jensen, E. William"],
 [nil, "Holy, Timothy Eric"],
 [nil, "Forbes, Douglass Jane"],
 [nil, "Bevilacqua, Michael P."],
 [nil, "Holm, Connie"],
 [nil, "Biggin, Mark D."],
 [nil, "Weeks, Ruth"],
 [nil, "Goode, Bruce L."],
 [nil, "Posakony, James"],
 [nil, "Murthy, Venkatesh"],
 [nil, "Whitehead, Alexander S."],
 [nil, "Steller, Hermann"],
 [nil, "Matsudaira, Paul T."],
 [nil, "Lemons, Richard"],
 [nil, "Boswell, Robert"],
 [nil, "Jones, Katherine A."],
 [nil, "Murday, James S."],
 [nil, "Kalderon, Daniel D."],
 [nil, "Rust, Audrey C."],
 [nil, "Kohorn, Bruce D."],
 [nil, "Snyder, Michael"],
 [nil, "Macdougall, John D."],
 [nil, "Baumann, Peter"],
 [nil, "Lagunoff, Michael"],
 [nil, "Sorge, Joseph"],
 [nil, "Rovira, Eduardo"],
 [nil, "Cooke-Vargas, Sharon"],
 [nil, "Ross, Christopher A."],
 [nil, "Cerione, Richard A."],
 [nil, "Shaw, George M."],
 [nil, "Brent, Roger"],
 [nil, "Panning, Barbara"],
 [nil, "Mittermeier, Russell A."],
 [nil, "Romano, Victor"],
 [nil, "Etchison, Diane O."],
 [nil, "DuTeau, Helen"],
 [nil, "Piling, Beth"],
 [nil, "Salama, Nina R."],
 [nil, "Huang, Z. Josh"],
 [nil, "Koomey, John Michael"],
 [nil, "Nemerow, Glen"],
 [nil, "McDonough, Anne"],
 [nil, "Ravetch, Jeffrey V."],
 [nil, "Solnica-Krezel, Lilianna"],
 [nil, "Puré, Ellen"],
 [nil, "Eisen, Michael B."],
 [nil, "Horton, Jay D."],
 [nil, "Magnuson, Terry"],
 [nil, "Jenkins, Marc K."],
 [nil, "Chiu, Shing"],
 [nil, "Miller, Virginia"],
 [nil, "Duarte, Ronald"],
 [nil, "Welch, Rodney"],
 [nil, "Cowin, Pamela"],
 [nil, "Feeney, James"],
 [nil, "Clark, Gregory A."],
 [nil, "Ehrlich, Barbara E."],
 [nil, "Curry, Susan"],
 [nil, "Conner, Fred"],
 [nil, "Doublié, Sylvie"],
 [nil, "Luskin, Marla B."],
 [nil, "Kuo, Lawrence"],
 [nil, "Krause, James E."],
 [nil, "Cox, Jeffery S."],
 [nil, "Bartolucci, Sherry"],
 [nil, "Scheller, Robert H."],
 [nil, "Carrasco, Nancy"],
 [nil, "Meluh, Pamela Bernadette"],
 [nil, "Moore, Gordon E."],
 [nil, "Thomas, John B."],
 [nil, "Aderem, Alan"],
 [nil, "Lin, Jim Jung-Ching"],
 [nil, "Van Voorhis, Wesley C."],
 [nil, "Altman, John D."],
 [nil, "Natelson, Samuel"],
 [nil, "Jenkins, Robert T."],
 [nil, "Day, Melvin S."],
 [nil, "Schweitzer, Glenn E."],
 [nil, "Siebel, Kenneth F."],
 [nil, "Cooper, Julia P."],
 [nil, "Muir, Warren R."],
 [nil, "Omary, M. Bishr"],
 ["AR", "Ondetti, Miguel A."],
 ["AR", "Galán. Jorge E."],
 ["AT", "Karplus, Martin"],
 ["AT", "Mark, H. F. (Herman Francis)"],
 ["AT", "Biemann, K. (Klaus)"],
 ["AT", "Weissmann, Gerald"],
 ["AT", "Djerassi, Carl"],
 ["AT", "Bader, Alfred R."],
 ["AT", "Sternbach, L. H. (Leo H.)"],
 ["AU", "Cyster, Jason G."],
 ["AU", "Nicholson, Bruce J."],
 ["AU", "Marks, Rory M."],
 ["AU", "Nicholls, Robert D."],
 ["AU", "Hill, Ann Bernice"],
 ["AU", "Reichmanis, Elsa"],
 ["AU", "Howard, Jonathon"],
 ["BE", "Stork, Gilbert"],
 ["BG", "Nikolov, Dimitar B."],
 ["BG", "Kebarle, Paul"],
 ["BR", "Moraes, Carlos Torres."],
 ["BR", "von Gersdorff, Henrique"],
 ["CA", "Harrison, Alex G."],
 ["CA", "Marcus, Rudolph A. (Rudolph Arthur)"],
 ["CA", "Francis, Marion D."],
 ["CA", "Vetter, Monica L."],
 ["CA", "Epstein, Douglas J."],
 ["CA", "Halpern, Marnie Esther"],
 ["CA", "Bardwell, James C. A."],
 ["CA", "Standing, Kenneth G."],
 ["CA", "Taube, Henry"],
 ["CA", "Robinson, Ivan Maxwell"],
 ["CA", "Hay, Allan S."],
 ["CA", "Carthew, Richard W."],
 ["CA", "Battista, O. A. (Orlando Aloysius)"],
 ["CA", "Overduin, Michael J."],
 ["CA", "Govier, George W. (George Wheeler)"],
 ["CH", "Wüthrich, Kurt"],
 ["CH", "Signer, Rudolph"],
 ["CH", "Eschenmoser, Albert"],
 ["CH", "Steuli, Michel"],
 ["CL", "Zuker, Charles S."],
 ["CN", "Pariser, Rudolph"],
 ["CN", "Nakanishi, Kōji"],
 ["CN", "Xu, Tian"],
 ["CN", "Chan, Andrew Chee-Yuen"],
 ["CN", "Zhou, Z. Hong"],
 ["CN", "Xu, Zhaohui"],
 ["CN", "Sun, Hong"],
 ["CN", "Xiong, Yue"],
 ["CN", "Li, Norman N."],
 ["CN", "Zheng, Yixian"],
 ["CN", "Wu, Hao"],
 ["CN", "Huang, Shi"],
 ["CN", "Zhong, Yi"],
 ["CN", "Stryer, Lubert"],
 ["CN", "He, Xi"],
 ["CN", "Lau, Lester F."],
 ["CN", "Liu, Fenyong"],
 ["CN", "Lu, Kun Ping"],
 ["CS", "Svoboda, Karel"],
 ["CS", "Weisz, Paul Burg"],
 ["CS", "Wotiz, John H."],
 ["CU", "Iglesia, Enrique"],
 ["DE", "Schmid, Helga"],
 ["DE", "Lederman, Peter B. (Peter Bernd)"],
 ["DE", "Frasch, Manfred"],
 ["DE", "Herzberg, Gerhard"],
 ["DE", "Hillenkamp, Franz"],
 ["DE", "Nissel, Frank R."],
 ["DE", "Buck, Jochen"],
 ["DE", "Latterich, Martin"],
 ["DE", "Dessauer, Rolf"],
 ["DE", "Kisker, Caroline F."],
 ["DE", "Oettgen, Hans C."],
 ["DE", "Haensel, Vladimir"],
 ["DE", "Bloch, Konrad Emil"],
 ["DE", "Honig, Richard E. (Richard Edward)"],
 ["DE", "Meister, Markus"],
 ["DE", "Stoffel, Markus"],
 ["DE", "Benfey, O. Theodor (Otto Theodor)"],
 ["DK", "Topsøe, Haldor F.A."],
 ["EG", "Tocalian, Jacques"],
 ["FI", "Ruohola-Baker, Hannele"],
 ["FR", "Dusoulier, Nathalie"],
 ["FR", "Dubois, J. E. (Jaques-Emile)"],
 ["FR", "Ducy, Patricia F."],
 ["FR", "Gauvin, William H."],
 ["FR", "Davis, Mark M."],
 ["FR", "Joullié, Madeleine M."],
 ["GB", "Wilson, Trevor"],
 ["GB", "Pyott, David"],
 ["GB", "Aitchison, Thomas M."],
 ["GB", "Woolston, John E."],
 ["GB", "Chase, Gordon"],
 ["GB", "Neville, Roy G."],
 ["GB", "Muir, Tom W."],
 ["GB", "Taunton-Rigby, Alison"],
 ["GB", "Aitchison, Jean"],
 ["GB", "Meadows, A. J. (Arthur Jack)"],
 ["GB", "Laidler, Keith James"],
 ["GB", "Salton, Stephen R.J."],
 ["GB", "Goldberg, Jonathan Daniel"],
 ["GB", "Rice, F. O. (Francis Owen)"],
 ["GB", "Holt, Christine E."],
 ["GB", "Jennings, Keith R."],
 ["GB", "Brown, Herbert C. (Herbert Charles)"],
 ["GB", "Beynon, J. H. (John Herbert)"],
 ["GB", "Milligan, Ronald Andrew"],
 ["GB", "Hill, Michael (Michael W.)"],
 ["GB", "Pullen, Ann M."],
 ["GB", "Holmes, John L."],
 ["GB", "March, Raymond E."],
 ["GB", "Brown, Anthony M. C."],
 ["GB", "Foskett, D. J."],
 ["GB", "Line, Maurice Bernard"],
 ["GB", "Stamler, Jonathan S."],
 ["GB", "Parmee, Emma R."],
 ["GB", "Tan, Song"],
 ["HU", "Vadasz, Leslie L."],
 ["HU", "Rosenkranz, George"],
 ["HU", "Hegedus, L. Louis"],
 ["HU", "Grove, Andrew S."],
 ["HU", "Wyman, George M."],
 ["HU", "Somorjai, Gábor"],
 ["HU", "Olah, George A. (George Andrew)"],
 ["HU", "Tobias, Charles W."],
 ["HU", "Morawetz, Herbert"],
 ["IE", "Kernan, Maurice J."],
 ["IL", "Ron, David"],
 ["IL", "Hanein, Dorit"],
 ["IN", "Raychaudhuri, Pradip"],
 ["IN", "Chowdhry, Uma"],
 ["IN", "Dewar, Michael J.S."],
 ["IN", "Ravishankara, A.R."],
 ["IN", "Verma, Inder M."],
 ["IR", "Saberi, Pouné"],
 ["IT", "Oreffice, Paul"],
 ["JP", "Tsukiyama, Toshio"],
 ["JP", "Inamori, Kazuo"],
 ["JP", "Hirano, Tatsuya"],
 ["JP", "Horiba, Masao"],
 ["JP", "Hiromi, Yasushi"],
 ["JP", "Kuro-o, Makoto"],
 ["JP", "Riley, Lee W."],
 ["JP", "Alber, Thomas C."],
 ["KR", "Kim, Seung K."],
 ["KR", "Cho, Ken W. Y."],
 ["LY", "Todeschini, Claudio"],
 ["MX", "Molina, Mario J."],
 ["MX", "Ruiz i Altaba, Ariel"],
 ["MY", "Adams, Alison E. M."],
 ["NL", "Hubert J.P. Schoemaker"],
 ["NL", "Los, Marinus"],
 ["NL", "Nibbering, N. M. M. (Nicolaas Martinus Maria)"],
 ["NL", "Termeer, Henri"],
 ["NL", "Frohman, Dov"],
 ["NL", "Kolthoff, I. M. (Izaak Maurits)"],
 ["NZ", "Goulding, Martyn D."],
 ["NZ", "MacDiarmid, Alan G."],
 ["PG", "Glick, Benjamin S."],
 ["PL", "Szwarc, Michael"],
 ["PL", "Reichstein, Tadeusz"],
 ["PL", "Hoffmann, Roald"],
 ["PT", "Seabra, Miguel C."],
 ["RU", "Magasanik, Boris"],
 ["RU", "Lazebnik, Yuri A."],
 ["SA", "Hannun, Yusuf A."],
 ["SE", "Wiesel, Torsten N."],
 ["TR", "Hotamışlıgil, Gökhan S."],
 ["TR", "Haas, Isy"],
 ["TR", "Fikrig, Erol"],
 ["TW", "Lee, Kuo-Fen"],
 ["TW", "Chiang, Cheng-Ming"],
 ["UA", "Labovsky, J. X. (Joseph X.)"],
 ["UA", "Sello, Harry"],
 ["UM", "Smith, Lloyd M."],
 ["UY", "Leone, Gustavo W."],
 ["UY", "Krainer, Adrian"],
 ["YU", "Prelog, V. (Vladimir)"],
 ["YU", "Nikolić-Žugić, Janko"],
 ["ZA", "Levin, Doron"],
 ["ZA", "Rosen, Antony"]]

[apinkney0696]

Thanks for pointing this out, Eddie! Definitely important, especially for the NHPRC grant. I'm going to pass this info on to Nicole. I'm guessing lines that say 'nil' above have a blank birth country field?

[jrochkind]

If US is the country code for USA (I think?), then based on the fact that it does not actually appear in the list... I'm wondering if all the missing ones are USA, and Oral Histories metadata practice has been to leave this blank for USA?

[apinkney0696]

Looking at Vetter, Monica L., she seems to be Canadian, and Venkatesh Murthywas born in Neyveli, India based on his transcript. These are both listed as "nil" above

[jrochkind]

Hmm, intersting. Venkatesh Murthy has no biographal information entered at all. I now remember we have "Interviewee Biographies" entered as separate entities, and he simply doesn't have one. I'm hoping he never had any, including in old system, rather than it got lost at some point? I actually can't remember where we enter them. So he's not just missing a birth country, he's missing everything.

Vetter Monica DOES seem to have biogrpahical information entered... including a birth country set to Canada. And succesfully shows up in export above as CA (Canada) as well. @apinkney0696 , you say you saw her mentioned as "nil" above---i'm not seeing that? I'm confused!

[jrochkind]

Some of the other ones I've spot-checked also seem to be missing all their biographical metadata. :( We're going ot have to figure out if it's somehow been lost and we need to try to restore from backups somehow, or if was never there or what.

Which probably requires consulting with OH staff.

It doesn't look like Nic has a github account, maybe it would make sense for her to get one to coordinate on tickets?

[apinkney0696]

Oh whoops, I thought Monica Vetter was listed as nil. Must have scrolled too far - my bad.

I wonder if the addition of biographical information depends on their restriction status? Venkatesh's interview is pretty restricted.

I agree we should have Nic look at this list and see if she can offer any insight. I will send her an email for now, but I think giving her a GitHub account is a good idea for when these things come up.

[eddierubeiz]

@sunicolita has an account now. I also confirmed with her that there is in fact a good reason that we don't maintain bio information on the restricted OHs.

[CHF-IT-Staff]

I invited @sunicolita to be a member of new Collaborator Team in GitHub

[sunicolita]

Hi all! It looks like the bio info has been left out for so many of these interviewees through a mix of: having received donated interviews that never had the metadata flushed out manually, restrictions on sharing certain data, and probably some old best practices (I'm pretty sure there was a time when we didn't enter data on US-born interviewees). I can start to get to work on updating these bios this week.

[jrochkind]

Nice. Totally up to you and your priorities @sunicolita, how quickly you do this. We were just worried it might be some kind of error on our end, so we're glad it's not! As far as when or how quickly you enter the data, totally your call, as far as your priorities over in the Center for OH.

We also wanted to make sure you knew that the report you asked for us on country-of-birth will of course leave all those out!

[eddierubeiz]

Hey, just to reduce clutter and since this is not something Jonathan or I will be working on, I'm going to move this to "Review". If we can help with reporting or mass updates, let us know.

[jrochkind]

We're not doing anything on our side on this, so closing!