SCI: WORKSHOP: Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities, September 28-30, 2005, Univ of VA.

数字工具和网络基础设施的其他方面有望扩大人文和社会科学领域的研究、奖学金和教育机会。他们-为人文学术提供新的创新方法；-为学者和学生提供更深入和更复杂的文化材料，从而改变材料的教学和体验方式；促进所有接触人类记录数字表示的人之间的新形式的合作。然而，如果要实现这些技术的好处，就必须探索和解决数字工具、网络基础设施的其他方面以及新活动可能带来的问题、问题和挑战。该奖项支持由人文、社会科学和计算机科学等不同学科的学者组成的峰会，以评估用于人文和社会科学研究和教育的数字工具的发展状况，以及支持和整合网络基础设施的有效性。峰会的目标是更清楚地了解网络基础设施如何改变社会和文化环境，以及如何最大限度地利用这种变化带来的好处。在使能性网络基础设施的背景下，构建、部署和使用数字工具的关键机遇和挑战将被抽样。将探讨与互操作性、元注释和可用性相关的问题——决定共享环境的属性。工具可以服务于许多目的：分析、新材料的创造性开发、教育、演示以及提高生产力。首脑会议将讨论文本和非文本媒体（音频、视频、3-D和4-D可视化）。最后，本次峰会将响应美国学术学会理事会人文社会科学网络基础设施委员会主席的呼吁，寻求能够在人文学科的特定学科、实践和项目之间共享的工具。峰会的结果将确定工具建设的优先事项，如果可能的话，还将确定“特许”新工具。这些结论和对社区的建议，以及对国家科学基金会、国家艺术基金会和其他人文奖学金赞助商的可行建议，将成为最终报告的一部分，并记录在最终报告中。

Digital tools and other aspects of cyberinfrastructure promise to expand the opportunities for research, scholarship and education in the humanities and social sciences. They- Enable new and innovative approaches to humanistic scholarship;- Provide scholars and students deeper and more sophisticated access to cultural materials, thus changing how material can be taught and experienced; and- Facilitate new forms of collaboration of all those who touch the digital representation of the human record.However, the issues, problems and challenges that might accompany digital tools, other aspects of cyberinfrastructure, and the new activities that are enabled must be explored and addressed if the benefits of these technologies are to be realized.This award supports a summit of scholars from diverse disciplines, the humanities, social sciences, and computer sciences, to assess the state of development of digital tools for humanities and social science research and education, as well as the effectiveness of the supporting and integrating cyberinfrastructure. The objective of the summit is to gain a clearer view of how cyberinfrastructure is changing the social and cultural environment and how to maximize the benefits enabled by this change. Key opportunities and challenges in building, deploying and using digital tools in the context of the enabling cyberinfrastructure will be sampled. Issues related to interoperability, meta-annotation, and usability - attributes that determine a shared environment will be explored. Tools may serve many purposes: analysis, creative development of new material, education, presentation, as well as productivity enhancement. The Summit will address text as well as non-textual media (audio, video, 3-D and 4-D visualization). Finally, this summit will answer the call from the Chair of the American Council of Learned Societies' Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences for tools that can be shared across the boundaries of specific disciplines, practices, and projects in the humanities. Priorities for tool building, and if possible, "charette" new tools will be identified as a result of the summit. These along with conclusions and recommendations for the community as wells as actionable suggestions for the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and other sponsors of humanistic scholarship will be part of the deliverable and documented in a final report.