SGER: Plan for a History of the Internet Digital Archive

SGER：互联网数字档案历史计划

• 批准号: 0341815
• 负责人: Charles Brownstein
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Corporation for National Research Initiatives (NRI)
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-10-01 至 2005-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0341815&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Plan; History; Internet; Digital

This SGER will explore the possibility of identifying, locating, and then creating an open, easily accessible digital archive of important materials that document the activities, policies, and processes that contributed to the evolution of the Internet. Records of the R&D carried out between 1968 (the initiation of networking R&D at DARPA) and 1985 (the decommissioning of the NSFNet) are fragile. As time passes, records are lost or dispersed, making it impossible or very costly to recover. Many of the records of that period are informal (e.g., email) and may never be recovered unless steps are taken now to locate and acquire them. In addition, the former government officials and academic partners who participated in this early R&D are getting older. Steps need to be taken now to insure that all important participants from that period have been interviewed and that their personal records of that period be made available where possible. Partnerships are being established with the Computer History Museum, and other archives, which have already begun to collect some of these materials, as well as with the George Washington University's ECHO Program, which is devoted to exploring and collecting history online. The approach taken here is to be bring all these disparate resources together and to become systematic about what needs to be collected to make this Internet archive a definitive, exhaustive collection. The information generated during this research and then made available in the archive to future researchers will contribute to more accurate understandings of the synergy of university-government-industry collaboration and the linkages of science and technology policy, R &D and education to advances in technology, the economy and society.

该SGER将探索识别，定位，然后创建一个开放的，易于访问的重要材料的数字档案的可能性，这些材料记录了促进互联网发展的活动，政策和过程。 1968年（DARPA网络研发的启动）和1985年（NSFNet的退役）之间进行的研发记录是脆弱的。随着时间的推移，记录会丢失或分散，无法恢复或恢复成本非常高。这一时期的许多记录都是非正式的（例如，电子邮件），并且可能永远不会恢复，除非现在采取步骤来定位和获取它们。此外，参与这一早期研发的前政府官员和学术伙伴年龄越来越大。现在需要采取步骤，确保采访了这一时期的所有重要参与者，并在可能的情况下提供他们这一时期的个人记录。 正在与计算机历史博物馆和其他档案馆建立伙伴关系，这些档案馆已经开始收集其中的一些材料，还与乔治华盛顿大学的ECHO方案建立伙伴关系，该方案致力于在线探索和收集历史。这里采取的方法是将所有这些不同的资源放在一起，并系统地了解需要收集什么，使这个互联网档案成为一个明确的，详尽的集合。通过本研究所获得的信息，今后的研究者可以更准确地理解大学-政府-产业合作的协同作用，以及科学技术政策、研发和教育与技术、经济和社会进步之间的联系。