Mechanical Specification. Issued for construction.
- 150-02-I-25
- Dossiê
- July 7, 2006
Mechanical Specification. Issued for construction.
Includes correspondence, project overview, and call for proposals for Musqueam art for the welcome plaza of the museum.
Collections concerns to UBC Properties
Includes planning documents for the RRN, correspondence, and documents related to research and information access at the museum.
Includes summary and planning documents for the RRN, including a copy of "Distributed Research Network (DRN) Technical Architecture" document by Turkington and Associates, dated December 7, 2000.
RRN - Canadian Heritage Liaisons
U'Mista planning docs and correspondence
Includes records related to the Laboratory of Archaeology (LOA) stream of the Renewal Project. LOA is not a part of MOA. Rather, it is a teaching and research unit within UBC’s Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts. Since 1977 the Laboratory has occupied space in both the Anthropology & Sociology Building (ANSO) and MOA. Since 2010, the newly renovated LOA facilities, located in the MOA building, accommodate a state-of-the-art Collections Repository, the Borden Research Lab, the Lithic Analysis Lab, the Faunal/Botanical Lab (with research bays for faculty, graduate student, and visiting researcher projects), the Archaeochemistry Lab, the Ceramic Analysis lab, and the Scanning Electron Microscope Lab. Our research facility also houses the Archaeology Archives and a “Transition Lab”– an area for processing artifacts, flotation, and receiving.
The purpose of the LOA stream of the LOA stream of the Renewal project was to “create, in conjunction with the MOA facilities, one of the most advanced and comprehensive research facilities in Canada,” with the following specific objectives:
• To create an operational database of LOA’s 500,000 artifacts in a format compatible with the RRN
• To digitize a portion of LOA’s collections for use through the RRN
• To build a storage system that facilitates access to LOA’s collections, and that also allows respectful and appropriate storage of the collections, with special attention to culturally sensitive objects and wet site materials
• To encourage and facilitate interdisciplinary, collaborative research on LOA’s collections
• To mitigate insect and pest infestations in LOA’s collections
• To create an archaeology exhibit at the Museum
• To create (in conjunction with the Building stream) state-of-the-art archaeological laboratories and associated research areas
• To satisfy First Nations communities, program participants, and researchers by providing appropriate access to archaeologically recovered information including artifacts
• To respond to First Nations communities’ concerns with regards to the repatriation and relocation of ancestral remains contained within LOA’s collections
• To provide enhanced support for archaeological teaching and training at UBC
• To increase students’ ability to be engaged in research involving LOA’s collections
(purpose and objectives of the LOA stream taken from the MRP Program Scope Definition, 1.2.)
Sue Rowley was the LOA stream lead.
Includes Renewal Program Scope Definition (March 9, 2004), issue logs, schedules, and other renewal team documents.
Renewal Program Scope Definition, Version 1.2
Includes a printed copy with annotations (likely by Jill Baird) and a copy of the document on a CD.
MOA Renewal team meeting minutes
Museum Renewal Project presentation
Program Scope Definition, draft version 0.3, February 13, 2004
Program scope and budget workshops 2003 and 2004
Renewal project memos [management level]
CFI trip to New York and Washington, July 2000
Notes from a trip taken by select MOA staff to museums in New York and Washington, to see "recent open and closed storage systems, digitization projects and other computerized information access systems that can act as models or points of departure for MOA's CFI grant development."
Includes 2003 proposal presented to Chancellor's Borrowing Advisory Committee, a 2005 financing proposal, correspondence regarding CFI grant, and draft financial documents.