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）的口述历史记录。虽然已经有了访问这些资料的网络原型，但还需要进行研究，以探索当地社区对这些资料更广泛分布的意见和偏好。这个项目将探索他们希望如何使用网络来造福他们，他们可以利用在线访问的材料，以及在界面和政策方面的哪些改进最适合社区。该项目涉及计算机系统的设计、旅行和对社区的采访。它将产生的知识可能有助于改善大多数美国社会与普遍较贫穷的美国原住民社区之间的“数字鸿沟”，同时也为计算机科学研究提出挑战，以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.