Thematic Research Collections
Thematic Research Collections
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专题研究收藏
DOI：
10.1002/9780470999875.ch24
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2007
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C. Palmer
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C. Palmer
将图书馆比喻为人文实验室一直有些夸张。对于大多数人文学者来说，很难在一个地方找到研究项目所需的材料，因为它们是在实验室环境中的。专题研究馆藏是更接近这一理想的数字资源。过去，学者们根据图书馆、档案馆和博物馆收藏的原始资料制作文献，而现在，他们正在制作构成研究馆藏的专业学术资源。学者们已经认识到，信息技术为重新创建研究的基本资源开辟了新的可能性，并且计算工具可以利用这些资源推进和改变工作（Unsworth 1996）。为了应对这些机遇，专题研究收藏正在发展成为一种新的学术创作类型。它们是支持某个主题研究的主要来源和相关材料的数字聚合。专题研究馆藏的开发与图书馆、档案馆和博物馆不断进行的馆藏开发工作同步进行。这些机构长期以来一直充当人文科学研究的仓库和工作室，收集和提供许多学科领域的大量不同材料。已经建立了数以千计的广泛、专业的研究馆藏，但它们往往距离希望与之合作的学者和学生很远。近年来，许多机构已开始对选定的馆藏进行数字化重新格式化，并使其在网络上更广泛地提供给研究人员、学生和公众使用。
The analogy of the library as the laboratory of the humanities has always been an exaggeration. For most humanities scholars, it has been rare to find the necessary materials for a research project amassed in one place, as they are in a laboratory setting. Thematic research collections are digital resources that come closer to this ideal. Where in the past scholars produced documents from source material held in the collections of libraries, archives, and museums, they are now producing specialized scholarly resources that constitute research collections. Scholars have recognized that information technologies open up new possibilities for re-creating the basic resources of research and that computing tools can advance and transform work with those resources (Unsworth 1996). Thematic research collections are evolving as a new genre of scholarly production in response to these opportunities. They are digital aggregations of primary sources and related materials that support research on a theme. Thematic research collections are being developed in tandem with the continuing collection development efforts of libraries, archives, and museums. These institutions have long served as storehouses and workrooms for research and study in the humanities by collecting and making accessible large bodies of diverse material in many subject areas. Thousands of extensive, specialized research collections have been established, but they are often far removed from the scholars and students who wish to work with them. In recent years, many institutions have begun to digitally reformat selected collections and make them more widely available on the Web for use by researchers, students, and the general public.