Developing a Pilot Collection of Digital Native Science Resources for DLESE

该项目涉及快速开发50至100个土著科学资源的小型试验性收藏，这些资源将作为具有文化能力的跨文化科学数字图书馆收藏的原型。“文化能力被定义为当参与互动的个人不具有相同的文化、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，文化能力是成功进行多文化或跨文化收藏的重要标准。一个有文化能力的资源或收藏集应该对它所代表的思想、对象和文化的其他方面提出准确的、非刻板的和非评判的观点(S)；应该尽可能地用它所代表的文化(S)的语言进行交流；并且只要可能，应该在学习和了解它所代表的文化(S)的文化范式内进行交流。这些收藏集将为居住在美国大陆和阿拉斯加的207万美洲原住民服务，将为各级美国原住民学生提供重要的科学教育资源，并将帮助招收美国原住民进入SMET职业生涯。它将刺激更多的原住民科学资源收藏，以及在其他非西方文化中有能力的收藏，并将美洲原住民和其他代表性不足群体的成员作为贡献者纳入数字图书馆社区。试点收集还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洲土著文化感兴趣的学习者。该收藏品将为DLESE服务，为政策制定提供一个“文化多样性的收藏品”的具体范例，并为开发更多此类收藏品提供模板。该收藏品将服务于美国科学研究界和依赖它的公众，使研究科学家和一般美国人对科学和自然世界本身的思考方式多样化。

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.