Digitisation Facility - BAS Archives and other physical collections

数字化设施 - BAS 档案馆和其他实物馆藏

• 批准号: AH/V012452/1
• 负责人: Ieuan Hopkins
• 金额: $ 3.64万
• 依托单位: British Antarctic Survey
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV012452%2F1
• 关键词: Digitisation; Facility; BAS; Archives; other

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is a world-leading centre for polar science and operations addressing issues of global importance and helping society adapt to a changing world. This position has been achieved through over 75 years of Antarctic endeavour undertaken by BAS and its predecessors, the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (F.I.D.S.) (1945-62) and the Second World War expedition Operation Tabarin (1943-45), which established the first permanent UK stations on the continent. This long history, illustrating the UK's leading role in the modern era of Antarctic scientific exploration and the challenges of living and working in an extreme environment, is captured by its significant physical collections, together constituting a unique and comprehensive account documenting all aspects of the organisations' activities. They include scientifically valuable long-term environmental, geological, biological and meteorological datasets, metadata and specimens, written records, maps, plans, film and photographic material. A testament to their importance was the inscription of a proportion of the archives collection, nearly ten thousand reports and nineteen thousand images, onto the UK Register of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme in 2018. As primary resource material, these collections are unparalleled in terms of their richness of detail and breadth of scope, and as such support original scientific, arts and humanities research, innovative cross-disciplinary projects and use by the general public. Examples include: the development of gender inclusivity in the Antarctic; geopolitical aspects of an international regime of environmental protection; the evolution of Antarctic architecture; and the psychological pressures of polar research. Scientists use the collections to extend data sets backwards in time, and source information vital to their understanding and continued use in globally significant research. Artists use them as source material. They inform the continued conservation of the UK's historic Antarctic buildings, and support communication activities to improve the relationship between science and society. But much of these collections remain locked away. BAS does not currently have the in-house capability to digitise these collections efficiently in large numbers. Nor does it have the capability to digitise the larger records and objects within its collections. An upgrade of equipment, to establish a designated and permanent digital facility, will enable BAS to support its aim to increased access to, and derive local, national and global impact from, its information and data assets for both internal and external researchers. It will enable a greater amount and range of material from across BAS' physical collections to be digitised, and a high quality of output in line with best practice and relevant standards. At the same time, it will decrease the risks to the collections by reducing physical manipulation and handling and removing the need to send material off-site for digitisation and, by generating high-quality digital surrogates, will increase the resilience of the data and information in the collections. It will enable researchers to unlock the data and information in the collections remotely, and support the re-use and combining of existing data in innovative ways, strategies of increasing importance in the current restricted situation.

英国南极调查局（BAS）是世界领先的极地科学和业务中心，致力于解决全球重要问题，帮助社会适应不断变化的世界。这一地位是通过BAS及其前身福克兰群岛南极考察团75年来在南极的努力取得的。（1945-62）和第二次世界大战远征行动塔巴林（1943-45），建立了第一个永久性的英国站在非洲大陆。这一悠久的历史，说明了英国在现代南极科学探索中的领导作用以及在极端环境中生活和工作的挑战，通过其重要的物理收藏品来捕捉，共同构成了一个独特而全面的帐户，记录了组织活动的各个方面。它们包括具有科学价值的长期环境、地质、生物和气象数据集、元数据和标本、书面记录、地图、计划、胶片和摄影材料。2018年，一部分档案收藏，近1万份报告和1.9万张图像被列入联合国教科文组织世界记忆计划的英国登记册，这证明了它们的重要性。作为主要的资源材料，这些藏品在细节的丰富性和范围的广度方面是无与伦比的，因此支持原创的科学，艺术和人文研究，创新的跨学科项目和公众的使用。示例包括：南极性别包容性的发展;国际环境保护制度的地缘政治方面;南极建筑的演变;极地研究的心理压力。科学家利用这些数据集将数据集向后扩展，并获取对他们的理解至关重要的信息，并继续用于全球重要的研究。艺术家将其作为素材。他们为英国南极历史建筑的持续保护提供信息，并支持交流活动，以改善科学与社会之间的关系。但这些收藏品中的大部分仍然被锁起来。BAS目前没有内部能力将这些收藏品大量有效地数字化。它也没有能力将其收藏中较大的记录和对象数字化。更新设备，建立一个指定的永久性数字设施，将使BAS能够支持其目标，即增加内部和外部研究人员获得其信息和数据资产的机会，并从中产生地方、国家和全球影响。它将使BAS物理收藏中更大量和更广泛的材料数字化，并根据最佳实践和相关标准提供高质量的输出。与此同时，它将通过减少物理操作和处理，消除将材料送到外地进行数字化的必要性，降低馆藏的风险，并通过生成高质量的数字替代品，提高馆藏数据和信息的复原力。它将使研究人员能够远程解锁馆藏中的数据和信息，并支持以创新方式重新使用和合并现有数据，这在当前受限制的情况下越来越重要。