Scientists on Line: Expanding Access to Scholarly Resources

科学家在线：扩大学术资源的获取范围

• 批准号: 9223222
• 负责人: Robert Kargon
• 金额: $ 6.98万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-02-01 至 1995-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9223222&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scientists; Line; Expanding; Access; Scholarly

Easy access to scholarly resources is at once a frustration and a challenge. Both archivists and scholars in the history of science have become increasingly aware of the opportunities afforded by the use of electronic media. The possibility of integrating productivity-enhancing tools with the resources themselves holds great promise for more efficient, and more thorough, archive use. By its close, Scientists on Disk, will have processed more than 20,000 pages from the J. Robert Oppenheimer archives at the Library of Congress. Under a previous grant, Dr. Kargon has assessed and tested several delivery media, including CD-ROM and digital tape. Yet an important consequence of their investigations has been to realize the current and future significance of network-based information. They have concluded that the existing research network, Internet, is the best way to allow world-wide scholarly access to electronic media archives. Existing communications software can be adapted to facilitate Internet access to the Oppenheimer archives already converted to digital form. Doing so would make possible the near-instantaneous use of these resources by scholars and students world-wide. Under this grant, Dr. Kargon and his collaborator Jeremy Kargon are: 1) extending an existing network protocol (WAIS) to accommodate electronic resources such as images and multiple-type documents so that electronic archives might more accurately represent scholarly documents; 2) making a prototype and disseminating a model information client to handle better such extensions, as well as a wider range of data types (including compressed images and bibliographic information); 3) implementing and maintaining an information server integrating these changes, using the previously scanned Oppenheimer documents. Properly equipped users around the world will be able to access this and other archives in a single, integrated fashion. Together with other fast-developing network tools, these efforts should encourage the proliferation of network-based, multi-media resources.

容易获得学术资源是一种挫折， 挑战.科学史上的档案学家和学者 越来越意识到， 使用电子媒体。 整合的可能性 提高生产力的工具与资源本身持有 更有效、更彻底地使用存档的巨大希望。 到年底，磁盘上的科学家将处理超过20，000个 罗伯特·奥本海默档案馆的页面 国会 根据以前的赠款，Kargon博士已经评估， 测试了几种传输介质，包括CD-ROM和数字磁带。 然而，他们调查的一个重要结果是， 实现基于网络的当前和未来的意义 信息. 他们得出结论，现有的研究 网络，互联网，是让世界范围内的学术 获取电子媒体档案。 现有的通信软件可以进行调整， 奥本海默档案馆的互联网接入已经转换为 数字形式。 这样做将使几乎瞬间的 全球学者和学生使用这些资源。 下 Kargon博士和他的合作者Jeremy Kargon是： 1)扩展现有的网络协议（WAIS）， 电子资源，如图像和多种类型的文档， 电子档案可能更准确地代表学术 文件; 2)制作原型并发布模型信息客户端 更好地处理这些扩展以及更广泛的数据 类型（包括压缩图像和书目信息）; 3)实施和维护信息服务器， 这些变化，使用以前扫描奥本海默文件。 世界各地配备适当设备的用户将能够访问 这和其他档案在一个单一的，综合的方式。 一起 随着其他快速发展的网络工具，这些努力应该 鼓励网络多媒体 资源