Electronic Encyclopedia of Earthquakes

0085511 Henye该项目的目标是创建一个地震电子百科全书（E3），它将作为NSF数字图书馆计划的一个组成部分。 该项目的牵头机构是南加州地震中心（SCEC），与加州大学地震工程研究所（CUREE）和地震学联合研究所（IRIS）合作。 该项目为期一年的试验阶段将产生一个业务框架，其中包括一套初步条目;计划在下一阶段有效地扩大这一收集。 项目名称“地震电子百科全书”准确地描述了该项目的产品：信息将以电子形式通过万维网进行交流。 用户不仅可以阅读文本，还可以访问数据集，并以个性化的方式操作、可视化和分析数据。 例如，学生或教师将能够从地震地面运动记录库中进行选择，并结合结构模型播放给定的记录，以实验动态响应的概念。 地震电子百科全书与传统的印刷百科全书有关，因为它是基于条目的，由一系列主题组成，每个主题作为独立的解释和信息集处理，但也相互参考。 “百科全书”的根本含义，知识的圈子，也适用，因为广泛的主题将涵盖地震学科的跨学科的方式。 地球科学、工程学、物理学和数学是四个基本的知识领域，并对地震对人类系统的影响进行了一些处理。 提供的图表和数据集将允许教师或学生以个性化的、基于探究的方式将不同的主题联系在一起，或者完成循环，而不会遇到沿着沿着传统学科线的人为划分。 因此，“百科全书”是对这一产品的准确描述，而不是“入门”，因为这里的目标是提供清晰组织的动态信息，允许学习者通过主题发现许多不同的路径，或者创造新的知识，而不是按照预定的顺序一次计量出一个想法或一条信息。 第三个术语“地震”在很大程度上是不言自明的，但要注意的是，E3将不限于个别地震，尽管具体的大地震将作为条目包括在内，并将用于说明更广泛的概念。 为了平衡条目的广泛性和开放性，以及教师或学生快速定位在不同标题下找到的适合其查询的信息的需要，相关内容的线索将被标记和链接，以提供针对给定可能级别的用户的连续性。 例如，将被绘制出来的内容，以显示高中教师可能是有用的，为他们的物理课程是不同的，在大学水平的工程或物理类的情况下，相同的主题是更深入的处理。 信息将根据其复杂性或隐含的先决条件知识进行分层：将使用一级（词汇表），二级（摘要）和三级（深入信息）框架。 大量的信息存在于这个领域，可以适应这个集合，但一个共同的问题是，Web用户经常遇到大量的低质量或不相关的数据，最终找到他们想要的内容的过程中。 分层框架和交叉引用的百科全书式思想，沿着致力于质量控制以确保高学术标准，旨在克服这一问题。

0085511HenyeyThe objective of this project is the creation of an Electronic Encyclopedia of Earthquakes (E3), which will function as an integral part of the NSF Digital Library Initiative. The lead organization in this project is the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC), in collaboration with California Universities for Research in Earthquake engineering (CUREE) and the Incorporated Research Institutes in Seismology (IRIS). The one-year pilot phase of this project will result in an operational framework with an initial set of entries; the enlargement of this collection is planned to then efficiently follow in a subsequent phase. The project name, Electronic Encyclopedia of Earthquakes, accurately describes the product of this project: The information will be electronic in form, communicated via the World Wide Web. Rather than only reading text, the user will be able to access data sets and to manipulate, visualize, and analyze the data in individualized ways. For example, the student or instructor will be able to select from a library of earthquake ground motion records and play a given record in combination with a structural model to experiment with the concept of dynamic response. The Electronic Encyclopedia of Earthquakes is related to a traditional printed encyclopedia in that it is entry-based, consisting of a series of topics, each dealt with as independent explanations and sets of information and yet also cross-referenced. The root meaning of "encyclopedia," the circle of knowledge, also applies, because the expanse of the topics will cover the earthquake subject in cross-disciplinary fashion. Earth sciences, engineering, physics, and mathematics are the four basic fields of knowledge to be included, with some treatment of impacts on human systems of earthquakes. Entries and data sets are provided that will allow the instructor or student to tie different topics together in an individualized, inquiry-based way, or to complete the circle, without encountering artificial divisions along traditional disciplinary lines. Thus, "encyclopedia" is an accurate description of this product, rather than "primer," because the goal here is to provide clearly organized, dynamic information that allows the learner to discover many different paths through the subject matter, or to create new knowledge, and not to meter out one idea or piece of information at a time in a pre-determined sequence. The third term, "earthquakes," is largely self-explanatory, except to note that E3 will not be limited to individual earthquakes, though specific major earthquakes will be included as entries and will be used to illustrate broader concepts. To balance the broad range and open-ended nature of the entries with the need for an instructor or student to quickly co-locate information found under different headings that is appropriate to their inquiry, threads of related content will be tagged and linked to provide continuity for a given likely level of user. For example, the content that will be mapped out to show high school teachers what may be useful for their physics courses is different than in the case of a college-level engineering or geophysics class where the same topic is treated in greater depth. The information will be layered in terms of its complexity or implied prerequisite knowledge: A primary (glossary), secondary (precis), and tertiary (in-depth information) framework will be used. A large amount of information exists in this field that can be adapted for this collection, but a common problem is that the Web user often encounters a large volume of low quality or irrelevant data in the process of eventually finding the content they desire. The layered framework and the encyclopedic idea of cross-references, along with a commitment to quality control to ensure high academic standards, have been designed to overcome this problem.