Expedited Award For Novel Research: Use of CD-ROM to Speed Access To Engineering Research Results

Delcher教授建议的项目将探讨利用新的光碟只读记忆体（唯读光碟）技术进行跨学科档案检索，以检索最近的研究成果。1986年，美国国家科学基金会工程理事会召集了工程学会的领导人，探讨该行业如何适应下一个十年的挑战。一个工作组分析了传播研究成果的新方法，这些方法可以加速美国工程师的创新。一个重要的发现是，CD-ROM技术提供了一个令人兴奋的机会，使人们能够前所未有地查阅各学会的所有档案研究论文，包括图形数据和全文检索，从而便于跨学科研究。在目前的项目中，出现在主要工程学会期刊上的论文摘要将被编码到CD-ROM磁盘上，并附有索引，这将加快个人计算机上全文搜索的速度。图形信息可能包括研究论文的全文。将提供搜索软件。该项目制作的光盘应作为工程学会在这种新媒介中提供日期的可行性的示范。总体目标是加速工程学科的创新。

The project proposed by Professor Delcher will explore the use of the new compact-disk read-only-memory (CD-ROM) technology for cross-disciplinary archival searches for recent research results. During 1986 the leaders of the engineering societies were assembled by the Engineering Directorate at NSF to explore ways the profession could adapt to the challenges of the next decade. One working group analyzed new methods of dissemination of research results which could speed innovation by U. S. engineers. A key finding was that CD-ROM technology offered an exciting opportunity to provide unprecedented access to all the archival research papers of the societies including graphical data with full text searching that would ease cross-disciplinary research. In the current project, abstracts of papers appearing in the leading engineering society journals will be encoded onto a CD-ROM disk along with an index that will speed full text searches on a personal computer. Graphical information may be included and possibly the full text of research papers. Software for searching will be provided. The CD-ROM disk produced by this project should serve as demonstration to the engineering societies of the feasibility of their providing date in this new medium. The overall objective is to speed innovation in the engineering disciplines.