A Pilot Study for an Issue-Oriented Database for Ethics, Technology and the Environment

9320258乔治这是一个试点研究，以开发一个在线问题为导向的书目数据库的伦理，技术和环境。 试验阶段将使调查人员能够（1）在至少三种软件产品上测试假设的数据库形式，并通过与潜在用户讨论来测试正式选项的效用;（2）与潜在用户面谈（新闻记者，学者，科学家，和大学教育工作者）确定他们希望回答的问题，并制定将材料纳入数据库的标准;（3）确定问题领域，扩大数据库覆盖范围，以便能够包括所有或几乎所有西北环境问题;及（4）为软件测试，从多个不同的学科中，找出少量有关特定环境问题的摘要评论出版物;开始发展叙词表和索引的普通语言和技术术语从这些。我们的目标是开发一个用户友好的数据库的人谁想要在西北环境问题作出合理的社会判断。 该数据库应有助于人文学科教师和学者、学生和教师以及媒体，不仅使他们能够获得其他评论者的言论，而且还能获得关于这些问题的科学方面的评论和其他摘要。 这将有助于科学家以及其他对科学进行社会评论的人，使他们更好地了解伦理观点和伦理学术。 随着信息越来越多地通过计算机网络提供，开发方便用户的来源和资源必须成为高度优先事项。 该试点项目提供了开发这些资源的方法的测试，以及对科学和环境政策的重要问题感兴趣的美国公民和学者的独特资源的测试。 ***

9320258 George This is a pilot study to develop an on-line issue oriented bibliographic database on ethics, technology and the environment. The pilot phase will allow the investigators to (1) test the hypothetical database form on at least three software products and test the utility of formal options by discussing them with potential users; (2) interview potential users (news reporters, scholars, scientists, and secondary and university educators) to determine what questions they will want answered and to establish criteria for inclusion of material in database; (3) identify issue areas and broaden database coverage to give capacity for including all or almost all Northwest environmental issues; and (4) identify, for software tests, a small number of summary review publications on particular environmental issues from many different disciplines; begin development of thesaurus and index of ordinary language and technical terms from these. The goal is to develop a user friendly database for people who want to make sound social judgments about environmental issues in the Northwest. The database should be useful to humanities teachers and scholars, students and teachers and the media, by giving them access to not only what other commentators are saying but also to reviews and other summaries about scientific aspects of these issues. It will be useful to scientists as well as others making social comment on science by giving them better access to ethical perspectives and ethical scholarship. As information comes increasingly over computerized networks, the development of user-friendly sources and resources must have high priority. This pilot provides a test of ways to develop these sources, as well as a test of a unique resources for U.S. citizens and scholars interested in important issues of science and environmental policy. ***