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Accession
The original dataset was generated from digitized annual reports from the Marine Biological Laboratory (available here). Project researchers manually transcribed information from course attendee lists in those annual reports into loosely structured spreadsheets (available here). Erick then aggregated those spreadsheets and performed some rudimentary normalization and matching procedures against people, institutions, locations, and courses, and then ingested those semi-cleaned data into a relational database (schema below). That database now sits behind the current curation platform and API.
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