The Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection Digitization Project

Abstract

The Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection is the cornerstone collection in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library's Historical Collections at the University of Virginia and, beyond the walls of the library, is of national significance. This article provides information on the collection and describes the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection Digitization Project, a digital project supported by a two-year Institute of Museums and Library Services (IMLS) grant, that contains more than 5,000 documents selected from the collection. In addition to providing digital surrogates, the project also supplied important metadata to enhance retrieval of those documents by utilizing the Text Encoded Initiative (TEI) and the Encoded Archival Description (EAD).