Making Sense of Information: An Electronic Library of Environmental Exhibitions

小行星9615691 科学技术中心协会提出了一个为期两年的试验项目（1996年11月至1998年10月），题为“了解信息：环境展览电子图书馆”。这一项目将产生一个电子图书馆的原型，其中载有可通过万维网查阅的关于环境主题的以电子数据为基础的科学资源。电子图书馆将协助博物馆专业人员共享展览资源，并加强教师和学生对这些资源的访问。 来自两个领先的科学中心-探索馆（旧金山弗朗西斯科）和布鲁克林儿童博物馆-的科学中心团队将与ASTC工作人员密切合作，创建和测试用于在WEB上记录科学资源的模型和框架。顾问和一个项目审查小组将从其他基于互联网的科学教育工作中提出看法。这一合作项目将使美国空间技术中心能够利用国家科学基金会和其他资助者已经在两个与环境系统有关的主要展览会上作出的大量投资，这两个展览会目前正处于最后发展阶段，计划从1997年开始通过美国空间技术中心开始全国图尔斯巡回展览。它们是： 突破地面，一个关于布鲁克林儿童博物馆和布鲁克林植物园的植物和人的展览; 湍流景观：The Natural Forces That Shape Our World（塑造我们世界的自然力量）是探索博物馆的一个关于自然界自组织的展览，包括云和吹沙丘等现象。 本计画所开发的电子资源将增进科学中心展览的外展，扩大科学中心的教育规划，并发展两个巡回展览的评估结果。该项目将产生三个主要成果： * 在万维网上为科学博物馆展览提供电子文件的模式和框架; * 提高科学中心分享展览想法和资料的效率和速度;以及 * 通过万维网，为预计的5，000名博物馆专业人员、1，000间教室的25，000名学生以及美国和国外的1，000，000名万维网用户提供更好的基于比特的科学资源。 这项试验计划的长远目标，是为培训教师使用数码电子资源进行科学教育提供基础。评估将侧重于这种新的电子资源在多大程度上可以促进博物馆界内部以及地方和国家博物馆与学校之间宝贵的知识和文化资源的获取和交流。最终，其项目中开发的资源将通过教师从业者、技术和科学顾问、研究人员、科技中心协会和ASTC的475名博物馆成员的互动来传播和实施。 ***

9615691 Pollock The Association of Science-Technology Centers Incorporated (ASTC) proposes a two-year pilot project (November 1996-October 1998) entitled Making Sense of Information: An Electronic Library of Environmental Exhibitions. This project will result in a prototype electronic library of exhibit-based science resources on environmental themes accessible via the World Wide Web. The electronic library will assist museum professionals in sharing exhibit resources, and enhance access to those resources by teachers and students. Science Center Teams from two leading science centers-the Exploratorium (San Francisco) and the Brooklyn Children's Museum-will work in close collaboration with ASTC staff to create and test models and frameworks for documenting scientific resources on the WEB. Consultants and a Project Review Team will contribute perspectives from other Internet-based science education efforts. This collaborative project will enable ASTC to leverage the considerable investment already made by NSF and other funders in two major exhibitions related to environmental systems now in the final stages of development and scheduled to begin nationwide tours through ASTC beginning in 1997. They are: Breaking Ground, an exhibition about plants and people from the Brooklyn Children's Museum and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden; and Turbulent Landscapes: The Natural Forces That Shape Our World, an exhibition from the Exploratorium about self-organization in nature, including phenomena like clouds and blowing sand dunes. The electronic resource developed in this project will enhance the outreach of science center exhibitions, expand science center educational programming, and develop evaluation results for two traveling exhibitions. The project will result in three principal outcomes: * Models and frameworks for the electronic documentation of science museum exhibitions on the World Wide Web; * Increasing efficiency and speed through which science centers share exhibit ideas and r esources; and * Enhanced access to exhibit-based science resources available via the World Wide Web to a projected 5,000 museum professionals, 25,000 students in 1,000 classrooms, and 1,000,000 World Wide Web users in the U.S. and abroad. The long-term goal of this pilot project is to provide the basis for classroom teacher training in using exhibit-based electronic resources for science education. Evaluation will focus on the extent to which this new electronic resource can enhance access and exchange of valuable intellectual and cultural resources both within the museum community and between museums and schools, locally and nationally. Ultimately, the resources developed in its project will be disseminated and implemented through the interactions of teacher-practitioners, technology and science consultants, researchers, the Associations of Science-Technology Centers, and 475 museum members of ASTC. ***