Crafting an Open Source Digital Publication Tool for the History of Science

该奖项支持科学技术史研究基础设施的发展。项目团队将开发一个出版工具，EditionCrafter，它将主要来源（数字化技术手稿）与原始研究相结合，包括文本的转录和翻译、评论和文本分析。该项目面向早期现代技术和工艺文本。将由此产生的实践文本整合到科学史中，将允许对科学思想和实践的起源有一个更全面、更包容的看法，揭示迄今为止一直被隐藏的贡献者，并允许构建现代科学的新叙述。研究人员、学生和机构（包括图书馆、历史学会和档案馆）以及社区团体将被授权广泛访问有价值的文本资源，否则这些文本资源将被隐藏在公众和学术参与之外。EditionCrafter被设计成一个开源的、可定制的发布工具，允许用户将自己的文本、数据和评论部署为低维护的数字关键版本。它将使静态站点的创建成为可能，这些站点依赖于基本的成熟技术和工作流程来解决寿命、维护、可持续性和成本问题。最初，合作者将产生8个案例研究，以便为新工具的开发和部署提供信息和故障排除，一旦工具完全运行，将产生更多的案例研究。在不同的制度约束下，对工具的易用性的反馈和测试将导致发布一组不同部署选项的目标集，这些选项将为用户提供多种运行软件和发布结果版本的方法。最后，将组织一个社区研讨会，汇集不同的涉众和专家网络，提供反馈和用例上下文，以最好地告知和评估新工具。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports the development of research infrastructure for the history of science and technology. The project team will develop a publication tool, EditionCrafter, that integrates primary sources (digitized technical manuscripts) with original research, including transcriptions and translations of the texts, commentary, and textual analysis. The project is oriented towards early modern texts on technology and craftsmanship. Integrating the resulting texts of practice into the history of science will allow a fuller, more inclusive view of the origins of scientific thought and practice, revealing contributors who have been hidden up to now, and allowing for the construction of new narratives of making modern science. Researchers, students, and institutions (including libraries, historical societies, and archives) as well as community groups will be empowered to grant wide access to valuable textual sources otherwise hidden from public and scholarly engagement.EditionCrafter is designed to be an open-source, customizable publishing tool that will allow users to deploy their own texts, data, and commentary as low-maintenance digital critical editions. It will enable the creation of static sites that rely on basic well-established technologies and workflows to address issues of longevity, maintenance, sustainability, and cost. Initially, eight case studies are to be produced by collaborators to inform and troubleshoot the development and deployment of the new tool, and many more once the tool is fully operative. Feedback and testing of the ease with which the tool can be adopted by users under different institutional constraints will result in the release of a targeted set of varied deployment options that will provide users with multiple ways to run the software and publish the resulting editions. Finally, a community workshop is to be organized that brings together a diverse network of stakeholders and experts to offer feedback and use-case contexts to best inform and evaluate the new tool.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.