A Multimedia Database Model for STS

起重机博士正在进行一项案例研究，研究电子工具如何不仅可以帮助科学和技术研究中的研究人员更有效地执行传统任务，而且还可以使非传统的探究途径成为可能，甚至可以向全新的群体开放证据体系。他用来作为这一领域模型的案例研究是希腊科学。 他和他的同事们的目标是使实践科学家和一般历史学家更容易驾驭和理解的复杂性是什么是一个非常不同的，在许多方面陌生，文化。相反，科学问题对于那些最熟悉文化的人来说往往同样模糊。 他们计划利用图像、动画、笔记和电子环境的一般灵活性，使文化专家能够更好地掌握生物学、天文学和数学等领域的技术问题。 因此，他们正在设计一个更充分和自然地融合科学和人文问题的环境。 通过展示如何使科学可以接近人文主义者和如何使文化背景可以接近和理解的科学家，博士起重机承诺革命性的STS。 其目的是最终将希腊科学的来源转化为一个动态的，易于更新的网络资源，对电子网络上的任何研究人员开放。

Dr. Crane is undertaking a case study of how electronic tools can not only help researchers in Science and Technology Studies perform traditional tasks more effectively, but can also make possible non- traditional avenues of inquiry and can even open up bodies of evidence to whole new groups. The case study he is using as a model for the this field is Greek science. He and his colleagues aim to make more tractable and comprehensible to practicing scientists and general historians the complexities of what is a very different, in many ways alien, culture. Conversely, the scientific issues are often equally obscure to those who are most familiar with the culture. They plan to exploit images, animations, notes, and the general flexibility of the electronic environment so that the cultural experts will be better able to come to grips with the technical issues of such fields as biology, astronomy, and mathematics. They are thus designing an environment that integrates more fully and naturally scientific and humanistic issues. By showing how science can be made accessible to humanists and how the cultural context can be made accessible and understandable to scientists, Dr. Crane promises to revolutionize STS. The aim is ultimately to transform the sources for Greek science into a dynamic, readily updatable networked resource open to any researcher on the electronic network.