Crafting an Open Source Digital Publication Tool for the History of Science

该奖项支持科技史研究基础设施的发展。项目组将开发一个出版工具EditionCrafter，将主要来源(数字化技术手稿)与原创研究相结合，包括文本的转录和翻译、评论和文本分析。该项目面向关于技术和手工艺的早期现代文本。将产生的实践文本整合到科学史中，将允许对科学思想和实践的起源有更全面、更包容的看法，揭示迄今被隐藏的贡献者，并允许构建现代科学的新叙事。研究人员、学生和机构(包括图书馆、历史学会和档案馆)以及社区团体将被授权广泛访问有价值的文本来源，否则将对公共和学术活动隐藏。EditionCrafter被设计为一个开源、可定制的出版工具，允许用户将他们自己的文本、数据和评论部署为低维护的数字关键版本。它将允许创建依赖基本成熟技术和工作流程的静态站点，以解决寿命、维护、可持续性和成本问题。最初，合作者将编写8个案例研究，为新工具的开发和部署提供信息并进行故障排除，一旦该工具完全投入使用，还将进行更多案例研究。对用户在不同体制限制下采用该工具的容易程度的反馈和测试将导致发布一套有针对性的各种部署选择，为用户提供多种运行软件和出版结果版本的方式。最后，将组织一个社区研讨会，将不同的利益相关者和专家网络聚集在一起，提供反馈和用例背景，以最好地告知和评估新工具。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports the development of research infrastructure for the history of science and technology. The project team will develop a publication tool, EditionCrafter, that integrates primary sources (digitized technical manuscripts) with original research, including transcriptions and translations of the texts, commentary, and textual analysis. The project is oriented towards early modern texts on technology and craftsmanship. Integrating the resulting texts of practice into the history of science will allow a fuller, more inclusive view of the origins of scientific thought and practice, revealing contributors who have been hidden up to now, and allowing for the construction of new narratives of making modern science. Researchers, students, and institutions (including libraries, historical societies, and archives) as well as community groups will be empowered to grant wide access to valuable textual sources otherwise hidden from public and scholarly engagement.EditionCrafter is designed to be an open-source, customizable publishing tool that will allow users to deploy their own texts, data, and commentary as low-maintenance digital critical editions. It will enable the creation of static sites that rely on basic well-established technologies and workflows to address issues of longevity, maintenance, sustainability, and cost. Initially, eight case studies are to be produced by collaborators to inform and troubleshoot the development and deployment of the new tool, and many more once the tool is fully operative. Feedback and testing of the ease with which the tool can be adopted by users under different institutional constraints will result in the release of a targeted set of varied deployment options that will provide users with multiple ways to run the software and publish the resulting editions. Finally, a community workshop is to be organized that brings together a diverse network of stakeholders and experts to offer feedback and use-case contexts to best inform and evaluate the new tool.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.