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    • Profiles in Science

    Metadata Updated: September 25, 2025

    Profiles in Science presents the lives and work of innovators in science, medicine, and public health through in-depth research, curation, and digitization of archival collection materials.

    This dataset includes full text and metadata describing nearly 30,000 items from Profiles in Science, including digitized correspondence, photographs, laboratory notebooks, diaries, and more that provide insight into the challenges and successes of scientific discovery and the variety of roles, paths, and perspectives involved.

    The accompanying README.txt file, downloadable from the Attachments section below, provides a recommended citation and methodological information. The Data Dictionary provides documentation on the variable names, data types, and definitions.

    Profiles in Science in its curated form is available at https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ as well as in NLM’s Digital Collections for exploration alongside other publicly available digital content, including books, film, prints, photographs, and manuscripts.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date September 25, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 25, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date September 25, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 25, 2025
    Publisher National Library of Medicine
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://datadiscovery.nlm.nih.gov/api/views/naqc-j4tg
    Data First Published 2025-05-09
    Data Last Modified 2025-09-23
    Category History of Medicine
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 009:25
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 581736cc-2cd9-4ed3-a76b-6ab388b7901b
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/
    License http://opendefinition.org/licenses/odc-odbl/
    Program Code 009:041
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 9b3fa727aa6acd4e23123f4203091b15a283316c5b0f03f32a64856f9b109fa9
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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