EAGER: Virtual Arctic Archeological Repositories and the Democratization of Science: The Alaska Peninsula Project

EAGER：虚拟北极考古资料库和科学民主化：阿拉斯加半岛项目

• 批准号: 1321411
• 负责人: Herbert Maschner
• 金额: $ 29.97万
• 依托单位: Idaho State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-03-01 至 2016-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1321411&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Virtual; Arctic; Archeological; Repositories

This project is an Early Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) to apply the technology developed through the Virtual Zooarchaeology of the Arctic Project, PI Herb Maschner, to artifact collections as a pilot project for developing a Virtual Repository for Arctic Archaeology. The PI accurately argues that access to collections, especially archaeological collections that have distributed ownership and are often stored in remote locations, is one of the primary barriers to broad, comparative studies in the north. The NSF Virtual Zooarchaeology of the Arctic Project (VZAP) provides an exceptional model for using 3D virtualization and online analysis tools to solve this key problem for northern research, but an EAGER project is proposed because many of the intricacies of providing the means for on-screen analysis need to be discovered, perfected, and implemented before this will work for archaeological and ethnographic collections. The construction of a Virtual Repository of Arctic Archaeology, using the Lower Alaska Peninsula and Sanak Islands Project as a test study, is will create a model for the implementation of a full virtual museum collection. The project will put the entire NSF funded Alaska Peninsula collections online in a searchable 2D and 3D analytical infrastructure to create easy access and analysis by bringing these collections to northern scholars and the world. Timing is critical, the PI will complete this project in the context of preparing these collections for return to the Museum of the North and Native Corporations who are the actual owners of much of the materials.

该项目是探索性研究早期概念资助（EAGER），旨在将通过北极虚拟动物考古学项目PI Herb Maschner开发的技术应用于文物收藏，作为开发北极考古学虚拟知识库的试点项目。 PI准确地指出，获得藏品，特别是拥有分散所有权并通常存放在偏远地区的考古藏品，是在北方进行广泛比较研究的主要障碍之一。美国国家科学基金会北极虚拟动物考古学项目（VZAP）提供了一个特殊的模型，使用3D虚拟化和在线分析工具来解决北方研究的这一关键问题，但EAGER项目提出，因为许多复杂的屏幕上提供的分析方法需要被发现，完善，并实施之前，这将工作考古和人种学收藏。利用下阿拉斯加半岛和萨纳克群岛项目作为试验研究，建立北极考古学虚拟资料库，将为建立完整的虚拟博物馆收藏创造一个模式。 该项目将把整个美国国家科学基金会资助的阿拉斯加半岛收藏在线在一个可搜索的2D和3D分析基础设施，以创造容易的访问和分析，使这些收藏北方学者和世界。时机至关重要，PI将在准备将这些收藏品归还北方博物馆和土著公司的背景下完成该项目，因为他们是大部分材料的实际所有者。