ITR/RUI: Accessing FDR's America : Enhanced Search and Retrieval

这个项目探索了搜索、组织、保存和与人文和社会科学中的大量信息资源互动的新方法。它包括创建和支持从富兰克林·D·罗斯福图书馆和数字档案馆(包括图像、声音、视频和文本数据)中提取的具有重要国际重要性的材料的数字图书馆，以及对部分藏品进行编码、注释和多模式链接，以开发最先进的搜索和检索方法。目标是建立可在以后应用于整个罗斯福收集的方法和程序，并考虑使这一重要资源能够灵活和创造性地获得的最佳手段。该项目一方面涉及在表示和获取在线数据方面具有丰富经验的计算机科学家，以及需要复杂和智能地获取在线历史资源的历史学家。由于我们将把几个技术领域的技术应用到人文科学的典型数据中，该项目代表了一项重要的跨学科努力。另一个好处是两所本科文科院校--马里斯特学院和瓦萨学院--之间的合作，以及让这两所学院的学生参与尖端研究的可能性。

This project explores new ways of searching, organizing, preserving, and interacting with large information resources in the humanities and the social sciences. It involves the creation and support of a digital library of materials of significant international importance drawn from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Digital Archives (which includes image, sound, video and textual data), and the encoding, annotation, and multi-modal linkage of a portion of the collection to develop state-of-the-art methods for search and retrieval. The goal is to establish methods and procedures that can be later applied to the full FDR collection, and to consider the best means to enable flexible and creative access to this important resource. The project involves, on the one hand, computer scientists with significant experience in the representation of and access to on-line data, together with historians who require sophisticated and intelligent access to on-line historical resources. Because we will apply techniques from several technical fields to data that is typical of the humanities, the project represents an important cross-disciplinary effort. Another benefit is the collaboration between two undergraduate liberal arts institutions, Marist College and Vassar College, and the potential to involve students from both institutions in cutting edge research.