The first archive contains the non-dominated solutions of the initial population.
Many extraordinary projects have launched under its auspices, including, in 1928, the Archive of American Folk Song, the "first national archive of traditional life," which contains slave narratives, Appalachian fiddle tunes, Celtic ballads, Balinese Gamelan, sea shanties, and more — gripping vernacular expressions that might have otherwise been lost.
The sediments of Lake Fimon, N-Italy, contain the first continuous archive of the Late Pleistocene environmental and climate history of the southern Alpine foreland.
The Smithsonian said in an announcement that this is the first complete archive of a work by Christo and Jeanne-Claude to be acquired by a major museum, and that a national traveling exhibition is planned for 2010.
We previously addressed this issue by initiating the first systematic archive of medical literature containing sex and/or gender-specific analyses.
Paley Center Chief Executive Pat Mitchell added that the partnership "will give the public access to the first comprehensive archive full of historic Olympic moments".
The first systematic, archive based examination of Churchill's World War II rhetoric as a whole, The Roar of the Lion considers his oratory not merely as a series of 'great speeches', but as calculated political interventions which had diplomatic repercussions far beyond the effect on the morale of listeners in Britain.
One year ago, the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture changed its name to Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, a move signifying its projected longevity as Russia's first archive "related to the development of Russian contemporary art from the 1950s through the present".
The BBC also celebrates the event with a month of special programming across radio and television, beginning with the first broadcast of archive recordings of Rattle conducting the Birmingham orchestra playing the complete Beethoven symphony cycle in 1995, starting on Radio 3 on Monday evening.
The vibrance and diversity of East London is captured through the physical gestures of its inhabitants in Rosana Antolí's Virtual Choreography, what the artist calls the world's first digital archive of everyday motions.
