The Digital Archive Network for Anthropology (DANA)

该奖项建立了一个收集人类学资料的数字图书馆。北达科他州立大学（NDSU）考古技术实验室（ATL）和万维网教学委员会（WWWIC）的教师、学生和工作人员正在开发和实施人类学数字档案网络（DANA）的试点项目，这是一个网络基础设施，用于将分布式数据库与人类学领域相关的内容无缝连接起来。资讯科技总监正积极与其他个人和机构合作，制订数码档案运作的管理程序，以及质素保证所需的政策和措施。通过这种合作，正在开发促进材料和产品的稳定性、互操作性和可重用性的标准。这个档案的一个独特之处在于包含了精确的、可测量的、三维（3D）的实物模型，以及二维图像和数字化文件。该项目的具体目标如下：-通过数字化来完善协议，以创建准确、可测量的3D模型，这些模型可以被检索、检查和分析；-开发应用程序和协议，以便在全球范围内共享数据；-改进当前的Java应用程序和客户端servlet用于数据搜索和检索；-持续评估我们的Java应用程序和servlet的有效性；-开发软件模块，以便通过特别设计的检索界面和通用检索协议，检索连接的数据库；-与国内外同事合作，开发符合元数据的信息结构，用于数字模型的归档和访问；-使用可扩展标记语言（XML）作为信息交换的主要媒介；-创建人类学标记语言（AnthML），方便信息交流；-开发一系列软件工具，提供不同层次的形态计量学分析，让用户可以选择适合他们需要的搜索和分析水平；-建立一套合作机构，发展和维持参与的数据库；-设立DANA咨询委员会；-建立一套内容标准和质量控制准则；-在上述ATL活动所涵盖的所有领域提供学术培训。目前正在采用最先进的数字存档和分布式网络技术来开发DANA，其内容将通过互联网提供，并将促进数据的共享，同时仍然保护预先出版的数据和文化上敏感的对象和信息。

This award has established a digital library collection for anthropological materials. Faculty, students, and staff affiliated with the Archaeology Technologies Laboratory (ATL) and the World Wide Web Instructional Committee (WWWIC) at North Dakota State University (NDSU) are developing and implementing the pilot program for the Digital Archive Network for Anthropology (DANA), a network infrastructure for the seamless linking of distributed databases with content of relevance to the domain of anthropology. The PI's are actively collaborating with other individuals and institutions to develop a management process for the operation of the digital archive and the policies and practices necessary for quality assurance. Through thiscollaboration, standards that promote stability, interoperability, and reusability of materials and products are being developed. A unique feature of this Archive is the inclusion of accurate, measurable, three-dimensional (3D) models of the material objects along with 2D images and digitized documents.Specific goals of the project are as follows:- Refine the protocol for creating accurate, measurable 3D models through digitization that can be retrieved, inspected, and analyzed;- Develop applications and protocols to enable the sharing of data worldwide;- Improve current Java applications and client servlets for data searching and retrieval;- Continuously evaluate the efficacy of our Java applications and our servlets;- Develop software modules to enable search and retrieval access to linked databases by way of specially designed searching interfaces and common search protocols;- Collaborate with colleagues across the country and abroad to develop metadata compliant information structure for archiving and accessing digital models;- Use eXtensible Markup Language (XML) as the primary medium for information exchange;- Create an anthropology markup language (AnthML) for facilitating information exchange;- Develop a series of software tools that provide varying levels of morphometric analyses so users can select the level of search and analysis appropriate to their needs;- Establish a set of collaborating institutions that will develop and maintain participating databases;- Establish a DANA Advisory Board;- Establish a set of criteria for content standards and quality control;- Provide academic training in all of the areas covered by ATL activities mentioned above.State-of-the-art technology for digital archiving and distributed networking is being employed to develop DANA, the content of which will be available via the Internet and will promote sharing of data while still protecting pre-published data and culturally sensitive objects and information.