III:Small:Integrated Digital Library Support for Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery

今天，人们新奇地使用社交网络和其他互联网软件，以创造性和动态的方式应对悲惨事件。自2007年4月16日弗吉尼亚理工大学枪击案发生后不久，该研究小组整合了数字图书馆、数据和文本挖掘、信息可视化和社交网络分析技术，以帮助理解这场悲惨的学校危机并从中恢复过来。这项提议旨在研究和开发下一代特定领域的数字图书馆软件套件，即危机、悲剧和复苏(CTR)工具包，其基础是17年在数字图书馆方面的工作，以及在信息检索、数据和文本挖掘、数据库管理、人机交互和社会学方面的专业知识。先进的智能信息集成方法在该领域的应用还不够充分。事件的影响是在更长的时期内感受到的，需要从纵向角度来理解其复杂性和相互依存关系。因此，该小组将与因特网档案馆和其他伙伴一道，开始创建CTRnet，这是一个综合的分布式数字图书馆网络，提供与CTR有关的丰富服务。这项工作将有助于确保更好地了解和预防更多的悲剧事件。

Today people make novel uses of social networking and other internet software to respond to tragic events in creative and dynamic ways. Since shortly after the April 16, 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech, this research group has integrated digital library, data and text mining, information visualization, and social network analysis techniques to help with understanding and recovery from this tragic school crisis. This proposal is meant to research and develop a next- generation domain specific digital library software suite, the Crisis, Tragedy and Recovery (CTR) -toolkit, building upon 17 years of work on digital libraries, as well as expertise in information retrieval, data and text mining, database management, human-computer interaction, and sociology. Advanced intelligent information integration methods have not been sufficiently applied to this domain. The impact of events is felt over extended periods, requiring longitudinal perspectives to understand their complexity and inter-dependencies. Consequently, with the Internet Archive and other partners, the group will begin to create CTRnet, an integrated distributed digital library network for providing a rich suite of CTR-related services. Such work will help ensure that further tragic events might be better understood and prevented.