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Scholars Awards: The evoText Project

学者奖：evoText 项目

基本信息

批准号：
1456573
负责人：
Grant Ramsey
金额：
$ 18.8万
依托单位：
University of Notre Dame
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2015
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2015-08-01 至 2016-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1456573&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Scholars Awards evoText Project

项目摘要

General Audience SummaryThe project aims to develop and make broadly accessible a new web-based tool, evoText, which will open new domains of inquiry and collaboration in history and philosophy of science. The scientific literature for many topics is too large for scholars to engage with comprehensively, a type of Big Data challenge in the humanities. Traditional methods in this area require scholars to engage the literature selectively and that inevitably yields an incomplete (and perhaps biased) view of scientific fields. The new web tool being developed will provide a way around these limitations; moreover, it will be publicly accessible via the Internet and its use will be free of charge. In addition, there is very substantial promise that it will have an impact on secondary-level STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education. The PI will work through his academic institution to reach out to local secondary schools to explore how evoText can be used in the classroom, including running a workshop for local instructors on the use of evoText. It will also be publicized at conferences relevant to science education, such as the various conferences established by the NSTA. Technical Summary EvoText will supplement traditional approaches to the history and philosophy of science by allowing historians, philosophers, scientists, and others to answer questions that cannot feasibly be answered due to the time it would take to work through millions of pages of text. It can be used to address specific hypotheses about the nature and history of science, and can also serve as a tool for discovery, pointing to salient periods in history or to important concepts whose investigation may be fruitful using advanced textual analyses. During the period of the grant, the investigator will implement many more sophisticated text analysis algorithms. The evoText database currently contains around 450,000 journal articles; during this period, the investigator will greatly expand the database, adding further content from open access journals as well as JSTOR, Nature Publishing Group, and other closed-access journal providers. His eventual goal is to include every article published in the evolutionary sciences, broadly construed, and also be close to comprehensive in related fields of science (like organismic biology and ecology) as well as in general science. This will provide a unique window into the sciences that we are excited to use to study the history and philosophy of biology, asking questions heretofore impossible to answer.

普通受众摘要该项目旨在开发并广泛使用一种新的基于网络的工具 evoText，它将开辟科学历史和科学哲学领域的探究和合作的新领域。许多主题的科学文献太大，学者们无法全面研究，这是人文学科中的一种大数据挑战。该领域的传统方法要求学者有选择地查阅文献，这不可避免地会产生对科学领域的不完整（或许还有偏见）的看法。正在开发的新网络工具将提供解决这些限制的方法；此外，它将可以通过互联网公开访问，并且免费使用。此外，它还有很大希望对中学 STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）教育产生影响。 PI 将通过其学术机构联系当地中学，探索如何在课堂上使用 evoText，包括为当地教师举办关于 evoText 使用的研讨会。它还将在与科学教育相关的会议上进行宣传，例如NSTA设立的各种会议。技术摘要 EvoText 将补充科学史和科学哲学的传统方法，让历史学家、哲学家、科学家和其他人回答由于需要花费数百万页文本而无法切实回答的问题。它可以用来解决有关科学本质和历史的具体假设，也可以作为发现的工具，指出历史上的显着时期或重要概念，使用先进的文本分析对这些概念进行研究可能会取得丰硕成果。在资助期间，研究人员将实施许多更复杂的文本分析算法。 evoText 数据库目前包含约 450,000 篇期刊文章；在此期间，研究者将极大地扩展数据库，添加来自开放获取期刊以及 JSTOR、自然出版集团和其他封闭获取期刊提供商的更多内容。他的最终目标是涵盖进化科学领域发表的每一篇文章，进行广泛的解释，并且在相关科学领域（如有机生物学和生态学）以及普通科学领域也接近全面。这将为我们提供一个了解科学的独特窗口，我们很高兴用它来研究生物学的历史和哲学，提出迄今为止无法回答的问题。