Mediation of Research Group Scholarly Activities in a Digital Library: Steps Towards the Nautical Archaeology Digital Library

0534314 Furuta RichardTexas Engineering Experiment Station数字图书馆中研究小组学术活动的调解：迈向航海考古数字图书馆的步骤该项目是德克萨斯A M大学数字图书馆研究中心（CSDL）和航海考古项目（NAP）研究人员的共同努力。 该项目将开发一个在航海考古领域收集的文物的初始数字图书馆，并使用它来检查和构建该地区研究和学术实践的工具和应用程序。该项目将设计、实施和评价一个框架，该框架将：1）有效地编目、存储和管理人工制品和船舶遗骸沿着其由水下考古挖掘产生的相关数据和信息，2）整合来自不同介质的异构数据源以促进研究工作并处理数据和结构中的不确定性，3）合并历史源以帮助研究当前的人工制品，4）开发可视化工具以帮助研究人员操纵、观察、研究和分析伪影及其关系;以及5）开发用于船舶重建的基于算法和可视化的机制，即，以确定回收的碎片和碎片在整体中的位置。该项目将从葡萄牙一艘沉船收集的大量文物以及过去32年在实地研究期间在NAP收集的大量档案中汲取材料。从现场收集文物提供了驱动许多领域的科学调查的基本数据。 虽然今天的数字图书馆研究的一个主要重点是收集，组织和管理不同的主题数据的档案，研究集中在特定的主题领域可以产生数字图书馆，功能上超越单纯的信息仓库，以支持在给定的主题领域的奖学金所需的非常具体的任务。这一建议的智力价值与计算机科学和航海考古学研究议程有关。该项目的研究具有在许多科学研究领域应用的潜力，特别是在那些包含实地工作方面的领域。

0534314Furuta RichardTexas Engineering Experiment StationMediation of Research Group Scholarly Activities in a Digital Library: Steps towards the Nautical Archaeology Digital Library The project is a collaborative effort of researchers in Texas A&M University's Center for the Study of Digital Libraries (CSDL) and Nautical Archaeology Program (NAP). The project will develop an initial digital library of artifacts gathered in the domain of Nautical Archaeology and use it to examine and build tools and applications for research and scholarly practice in the area. The project will design, implement, and evaluate a framework that will: 1) efficiently catalog, store, and manage artifacts and ship remains along its associated data and information produced by an underwater archeological excavation, 2) integrate heterogeneous data sources from different media to facilitate research work and handle uncertainty in data and structure, 3) incorporate historic sources to help in the study of current artifacts, 4) develop visualization tools to help researchers manipulate, observe, study, and analyze artifacts and their relationships; and 5) develop algorithm and visualization based mechanisms for ship reconstruction, i.e., to determine where recovered pieces and fragments fit in a whole.. The project will draw its materials from an extensive collection of artifacts gathered from a shipwreck in Portugal as well as the extensive archives collected at the NAP during field studies over the past 32 years. Gathering artifacts from the field provides the basic data that drives many areas of scientific inquiry. While a major focus of today's digital libraries research is concerned with collecting, organizing and managing archives of diverse topical data, research focused in specific topic areas can produce digital libraries that functionally go beyond mere information warehousing to support very specific tasks necessary for scholarship in a given topical area. The intellectual merit of this proposal is relevant to both Computer Science and Nautical Archaeology research agendas. The project's research has the potential for application within many areas of scientific study, particularly within those that incorporate aspects of fieldwork.