How Public is Public? Issues and Solutions for Oral History on the Internet

阿拉斯加大学收藏了几十年来美国原住民(因纽特人和阿萨巴斯坎人)的口述历史录音。尽管存在通过网络获取这些资料的原型，但还需要进行研究，以探索土著社区对更广泛地分发这些材料的意见和偏好。这个项目将探索他们希望看到网络如何使他们受益，他们可以利用在线获取材料的什么用途，以及在界面和政策方面的哪些改进最适合社区。该项目既涉及计算机系统的设计，也涉及旅行和与社区的访谈。它将带来可能有助于改善占多数的美国社会和普遍较贫穷的美洲原住民社区之间的“数字鸿沟”的知识，并给计算机科学研究带来挑战，即学习如何建立支持这些社区所需政策的系统。

The University of Alaska has a collection of oral history recordings, made over several decades, of NativeAmerican (Inuit and Athabaskan) individuals. Although prototypes of Web access to such collections exist,research is needed to explore the opinions and preferences of the native communities to the wider distribution of these materials. This project will explore how they would like to see the Web used to benefit them, what use they can make of online access to the materials, and what kinds of improvements in interfaces and in policy would best suit the communities. The project involves both design of computer systems and travel and interviewing the communities. It will result in knowledge that may help ameliorate the "digital divide" between the majority US society and the generally poorer Native American communities, as well as presenting challenges to computer science research to learn how to build systems that support the policies needed by these communities.