Developing a Pilot Collection of Digital Native Science Resources for DLESE

该项目涉及快速开发一个包含50到100个本土科学资源的小型试点馆藏，这些资源将作为具有文化能力的跨文化科学数字图书馆馆藏的原型。“文化能力被定义为当参与互动的个体不具有相同的文化、种族、语言或其他显著变量时，有效联系和沟通的能力”（GEO 2000）。因此，文化能力是衡量多文化或跨文化收藏成功与否的重要标准。具有文化能力的资源或收藏应该对其所代表的文化的思想、对象和其他方面提出准确、非刻板和非评判性的观点；应尽可能使用所代表文化的语言进行交流；并应尽可能在学习和了解其所代表的文化的文化范式内进行交流。该收藏将为居住在美国大陆和阿拉斯加的207万美国原住民提供服务，将为各级美国原住民学生提供重要的科学教育资源，并将有助于招募美国原住民进入SMET职业。它将刺激更多的土著科学资源的收藏，以及其他非西方文化的收藏，并将把美洲原住民和其他未被充分代表的群体成员作为贡献者带入数字图书馆社区。试点收藏也将服务于普通美国公众，并吸引那些通常对科学不感兴趣但对美国本土文化感兴趣的学习者。该收藏将为dese提供一个具体的例子，为政策制定提供“文化多样化的收藏”，并为更多此类收藏的发展提供模板。该收藏将通过使研究科学家和一般美国人思考科学和自然世界本身的方式多样化，为美国科学研究界和依赖它的公众服务。

This project involves rapid development of a small pilot collection of 50 to 100 Native Science resources that will serve as a prototype for culturally-competent cross-cultural science digital library collections. "Cultural competence is defined as the ability to relate and communicate effectively when individuals involved in the interaction do not share the same culture, ethnicity, language or other salient variables" (GEO 2000). So cultural competence is an essential criterion of the successful multi- or cross-cultural collection. A culturally competent resource or collection should present accurate, non-stereotypical, and non-judgmental views of the ideas, objects, and other aspects of the culture(s) it represents; should communicate, whenever possible, in the language(s) of the culture(s) it represents; and should communicate, whenever possible, within the cultural paradigms of learning and knowing of the culture(s) it represents.This collection will serve the 2.07 million Native Americans residing within the continental United States and Alaska, will provide an important science education resource for Native American students at all levels, and will help recruit Native Americans into SMET careers. It will stimulate additional Indigenous collections of science resources, as well as collections competent in other non-Western cultures, and will bring Native Americans and other members of underrepresented groups into the Digital Library community as contributors. The pilot collection will also serve the general American public and engage learners who are not usually interested in science but are interested in Native American culture. The collection will serve DLESE by providing a concrete example of "a culturally diverse collection" for policy development, and a template for the development of more such collections The collection will serve the American scientific reseach community and the public that relies on it, by diversifying the ways that research scientists, and Americans in general, think about science and the natural world itself.