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

阿拉斯加大学收集了几十年来美洲原住民（因纽特人和阿萨巴斯卡人）的口述历史记录。 虽然存在通过网络访问这些资料集的原型，但需要进行研究，以探讨土著社区对更广泛地分发这些材料的意见和偏好。 这个项目将探讨他们希望看到网络如何使他们受益，他们可以利用在线访问的材料，以及什么样的界面和政策的改进最适合社区。 该项目涉及计算机系统的设计以及旅行和采访社区。 它将导致知识，可能有助于改善大多数美国社会和一般较贫穷的美洲原住民社区之间的“数字鸿沟”，以及计算机科学研究提出的挑战，学习如何建立系统，支持这些社区所需的政策。

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.