Mediation of Research Group Scholarly Activities in a Digital Library: Steps Towards the Nautical Archaeology Digital Library

0534314 Furuta RichardTexas工程实验站调停研究组在数字图书馆中的学术活动：迈向航海考古数字图书馆的步骤该项目是德克萨斯农工大学数字图书馆研究中心(CSDL)和航海考古计划(NAP)的研究人员共同努力的结果。该项目将建立一个在航海考古领域收集的文物的初步数字图书馆，并利用它来审查和建立该领域研究和学术实践的工具和应用程序。该项目将设计、实施和评估一个框架，该框架将：1)沿着水下考古挖掘产生的相关数据和信息，高效地对文物和船舶遗骸进行编目、存储和管理；2)整合来自不同媒体的不同数据源，以促进研究工作并处理数据和结构中的不确定性；3)纳入历史来源，以帮助研究人员研究当前文物；4)开发可视化工具，以帮助研究人员操纵、观察、研究和分析文物及其关系；以及5)开发基于算法和可视化的机制，用于船舶重建，即确定回收的碎片和碎片适合于整体的位置。该项目将从从葡萄牙沉船中收集的大量文物以及过去32年国家行动方案实地考察期间收集的大量档案中提取材料。从野外收集文物提供了基本数据，推动了许多领域的科学研究。虽然当今数字图书馆研究的一个主要焦点是收集、组织和管理不同主题数据的档案，但专注于特定主题领域的研究可以产生数字图书馆，其功能超越了单纯的信息仓库，以支持特定主题领域的学术所需的非常具体的任务。这一建议的学术价值与计算机科学和航海考古研究议程都有关。该项目的研究具有在科学研究的许多领域中应用的潜力，特别是在那些结合了实地考察的领域。

0534314Furuta RichardTexas Engineering Experiment StationMediation of Research Group Scholarly Activities in a Digital Library: Steps towards the Nautical Archaeology Digital Library The project is a collaborative effort of researchers in Texas A&M University's Center for the Study of Digital Libraries (CSDL) and Nautical Archaeology Program (NAP). The project will develop an initial digital library of artifacts gathered in the domain of Nautical Archaeology and use it to examine and build tools and applications for research and scholarly practice in the area. The project will design, implement, and evaluate a framework that will: 1) efficiently catalog, store, and manage artifacts and ship remains along its associated data and information produced by an underwater archeological excavation, 2) integrate heterogeneous data sources from different media to facilitate research work and handle uncertainty in data and structure, 3) incorporate historic sources to help in the study of current artifacts, 4) develop visualization tools to help researchers manipulate, observe, study, and analyze artifacts and their relationships; and 5) develop algorithm and visualization based mechanisms for ship reconstruction, i.e., to determine where recovered pieces and fragments fit in a whole.. The project will draw its materials from an extensive collection of artifacts gathered from a shipwreck in Portugal as well as the extensive archives collected at the NAP during field studies over the past 32 years. Gathering artifacts from the field provides the basic data that drives many areas of scientific inquiry. While a major focus of today's digital libraries research is concerned with collecting, organizing and managing archives of diverse topical data, research focused in specific topic areas can produce digital libraries that functionally go beyond mere information warehousing to support very specific tasks necessary for scholarship in a given topical area. The intellectual merit of this proposal is relevant to both Computer Science and Nautical Archaeology research agendas. The project's research has the potential for application within many areas of scientific study, particularly within those that incorporate aspects of fieldwork.