Building a sustainable future for anthropology's archives: Researching primary source data lifecycles, infrastructures, and reuse

为人类学档案构建可持续的未来：研究主要源数据生命周期、基础设施和重用

• 批准号: 2314762
• 负责人: Diana Marsh
• 金额: $ 34.99万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2314762&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; sustainable; future; anthropology; archives

Anthropologists create data that are valuable, unique, and irreplaceable. They often document complex human lifeways, languages, and cultural communities in far greater detail than ever becomes available in a published form. Field notebooks, letters, photographs, sound and film recordings, and other documentation contain the data researchers draw on to publish new ideas, advance our understanding of human life, past and present, and contribute to cultural revitalization and reflection. Despite their importance within and beyond anthropology, recent NSF-funded research has shown these unpublished archival materials are often neither digitized nor findable via web searching. This research project builds on these findings to develop and test best practices for archiving original data across a range of formats. The project has immediate applied implications, builds partnerships between researchers and archival institutions, improves interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to graduate training, and enhances anthropology’s research infrastructure. For the broad public, this project makes anthropological archives available as primary sources to serve K-12 teachers and students, genealogists, artists, and more. It trains graduate and undergraduate students. The proposed research investigates the following questions: 1) What barriers prevent primary source data from being reusable over time? 2) How can anthropology and related fields sustainably adapt emergent linked data infrastructures in support of broad access to cultural research data? The investigators conduct focus group discussions to understand current movements and future best practices for anthropology’s archival information infrastructure, evaluate test collections in new open access platforms, develop two training modules for anthropologists and data curators, and host a virtual symposium. The project contributes to important debates surrounding the methods by which and the benefits and limitations associated with the sharing of raw data across a variety of formats.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.

人类学家创造的数据往往比以往以出版的形式记录的复杂的生活方式、语言和文化社区更详细，包括田野笔记本、信件、照片、声音和电影录音。其他文献包含研究人员用来发表新想法、增进我们对人类过去和现在生活的理解以及促进文化复兴和反思的数据，尽管这些数据在人类学内外都很重要，但最近由国家科学基金会资助的研究显示了这些未发表的档案。材料该研究项目基于这些发现来开发和测试各种格式的原始数据归档的最佳实践，该项目具有直接的应用意义，在研究人员和档案机构之间建立了伙伴关系，改善了跨学科。该项目将人类学档案作为主要来源，为 K-12 教师和学生、系谱学家、艺术家等提供服务。拟议的研究调查了以下问题：1）随着时间的推移，哪些障碍阻碍了原始数据的重复使用？2）人类学和相关领域如何可持续地适应新兴的链接数据基础设施，以支持文化研究数据的广泛获取？研究人员进行焦点小组讨论，以了解人类学档案信息基础设施的当前动态和未来最佳实践，评估新的开放获取平台中的测试集合，为人类学家和数据管理员开发两个培训模块，并举办虚拟研讨会。围绕各种格式共享原始数据的方法以及好处和局限性进行了重要辩论。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。