Developing a Pilot Collection of Digital Native Science Resources for DLESE

该项目涉及快速开发一个小型试点收集50至100个本土科学资源，将作为文化主管跨文化科学数字图书馆收藏的原型。“文化能力的定义是，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，文化能力是一个成功的多文化或跨文化收藏的重要标准。一个具有文化能力的资源或集合应该对它所代表的文化的思想、对象和其他方面提出准确、非陈规定型和非评判性的观点;应该尽可能用它所代表的文化的语言进行交流;并应尽可能与在学习和了解它所代表的文化的文化范式中。这个集合将为居住在美国大陆和阿拉斯加的207万美洲原住民服务，将为美国原住民学生提供一个重要的科学教育资源，并将帮助招募美国原住民进入小型和微型电子技术的职业生涯。它将刺激更多的土著科学资源的收藏，以及在其他非西方文化的收藏能力，并将使美洲原住民和其他成员的代表性不足的群体进入数字图书馆社区的贡献者。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，但对美国土著文化感兴趣的学习者。该集合将通过为政策制定提供“文化多样性集合”的具体例子来服务于DLESE，并为更多此类集合的开发提供模板。该集合将通过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来服务于美国科学研究界和依赖它的公众。

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.