EAGER: Virtual Arctic Archeological Repositories and the Democratization of Science: The Alaska Peninsula Project

该项目是一项探索性研究（EAGER）的早期概念拨款，将通过北极项目的虚拟动物考古开发的技术应用于文物收藏，作为开发北极考古虚拟储存库的试点项目。PI准确地指出，藏品的获取，尤其是那些所有权分散且通常存放在偏远地区的考古藏品，是在北方进行广泛比较研究的主要障碍之一。NSF北极虚拟动物考古项目（VZAP）为使用3D虚拟化和在线分析工具解决北方研究的关键问题提供了一个特殊的模型，但是一个EAGER项目被提出，因为提供屏幕分析手段的许多复杂性需要被发现、完善和实施，然后才能用于考古和民族志收藏。北极考古虚拟资源库的建设，使用下阿拉斯加半岛和萨纳克群岛项目作为测试研究，将为实现完整的虚拟博物馆收藏创建一个模型。该项目将把所有由美国国家科学基金会资助的阿拉斯加半岛的藏品放到一个可搜索的2D和3D分析基础设施中，通过将这些藏品带给北方学者和世界，创造方便的访问和分析。时间是至关重要的，PI将在准备将这些藏品归还给北方博物馆和当地公司的背景下完成这个项目，这些公司是许多材料的实际所有者。

This project is an Early Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) to apply the technology developed through the Virtual Zooarchaeology of the Arctic Project, PI Herb Maschner, to artifact collections as a pilot project for developing a Virtual Repository for Arctic Archaeology. The PI accurately argues that access to collections, especially archaeological collections that have distributed ownership and are often stored in remote locations, is one of the primary barriers to broad, comparative studies in the north. The NSF Virtual Zooarchaeology of the Arctic Project (VZAP) provides an exceptional model for using 3D virtualization and online analysis tools to solve this key problem for northern research, but an EAGER project is proposed because many of the intricacies of providing the means for on-screen analysis need to be discovered, perfected, and implemented before this will work for archaeological and ethnographic collections. The construction of a Virtual Repository of Arctic Archaeology, using the Lower Alaska Peninsula and Sanak Islands Project as a test study, is will create a model for the implementation of a full virtual museum collection. The project will put the entire NSF funded Alaska Peninsula collections online in a searchable 2D and 3D analytical infrastructure to create easy access and analysis by bringing these collections to northern scholars and the world. Timing is critical, the PI will complete this project in the context of preparing these collections for return to the Museum of the North and Native Corporations who are the actual owners of much of the materials.