《自然科学进展》刊载的基金论文及作者定量分析

依据文献计量学原理,对10年来1994～2004年6月间《自然科学进展》刊载的基金论文及作者进行调查研究与定量分析,从中揭示出该刊基金论文生产能力,基金论文作者分布现状及该刊在我国自然科学研究领域的整体水平。     

基于证据理论的遴选图书综合优先度评价模型

提出一种基于D-S证据理论的遴选图书综合优先度评价方法。该方法首先建立评价过程框架和图书的三类需求模型，然后针对遴选图书，以其三类需求的需求程度作为D-S证据理论中的证据，以基本可信度分配值描述专家的不确定的需求优先度评价，最后提出一种证据权重不一致情况下的证据合成算法来完成优先度的综合评价。     

关于图书馆绩效评估的研究与实践

图书馆绩效评估是对图书馆各项资源的投入和产出效益的比较。我国图书馆绩效评估经历了初步发展阶段、多元化发展阶段和转型发展阶段。图书馆绩效评估研究与实践的发展呈现出评估指标标准化、评估对象数字化、评估主体多元化、评估客体整体化的态势。参考文献10。     

Museums at the crossroad: Contributing to dialogue, curiosity and wonder in natural history museums

The first natural history collections opened to the public were inspired by a sense of curiosity and wonder about the products of nature. They were ‘cabinets of curiosities’ that offered a first-hand interaction between owner and visitors. Nowadays, these two facets of the museum experience—dialogue and wonder—have been lost, in part, due to the information overload coming via the media and the impersonal nature of the museum visit. This paper offers some reflections on the evolution of the museum visit, suggests some ways to rediscover this ‘sense of wonder’ and provides ideas on how to promote two-way communication with museum visitors. Two examples of exhibitions are offered as illustrations of the points discussed.     

‘The feeling of exclusion’: Young peoples' perceptions of art galleries

This article first looks at the relationship between museums and art galleries and their potential audiences and, in particular, the under-represented sector of young visitors. It examines the main findings from the limited research available on young visitors, and goes on to discuss theories delineating the differences between the cultures, identities and values of culture consumers and culture providers. The second part of the article looks at what specific museums have done towards being more inclusive in their appeal, and then reports the findings of a survey of young people in relation to New Zealand's Auckland Art Gallery. The survey found that young people's ideas of what constitutes modern, relevant art do not match standard art criteria, and that most exhibitions and marketing methods do not mesh with their worldview. The article concludes by using data from the survey to suggest ways of engaging more young people with public art galleries.     

Counterfeit museology

Museums are not usually seen to be agents of change. If they are to serve as important mechanisms for empowering local communities to define, recognize, and develop their own indigenous heritages, they should first consider a potential contradiction contained within this initiative: museums specialize in the representation of other peoples, while people have the sovereign right to represent themselves. Left unresolved, this contradiction could produce counterfeits of good intentions. The introduction of professionalized cultural management may mitigate the responsibilities of the citizenry to actively participate in the production and preservation of their own heritage.     

Analysis of the urban/rural broadband divide in Canada: Using GIS in planning terrestrial wireless deployment

Millions of Canadians residing in Canada's northern, isolated, rural, and remote communities do not have broadband Internet access. This situation has led to a national “broadband divide.” That is, the deployment of wireline broadband is very limited in Canada's northern, isolated, rural, and remote areas because of the significant expense of installation and maintenance of the wired infrastructure needed to reach dwellings in these locations.Terrestrial broadband wireless technology, on the other hand, does not entail the same kind of physical infrastructure. As a result, there are dramatic changes in how spatial considerations affect the provision of broadband Internet services (BIS) to areas beyond the urban zone. In particular, the spatial question is now focused on assessing the capacity for different technological solutions to reach profitable population bases, and brings to the forefront organizations that are developing non-line-of-sight (NLOS) technologies that would permit wireless Internet access over much greater distances than current solutions.We begin this paper by establishing the importance of broadband connectivity to Canada's northern, isolated, rural, and remote communities. This discussion comments on the role of the Government of Canada in the provision of broadband connectivity to residents of these communities, and outlines the current regulatory issues that govern wireless services and policy formulation.The second part of the paper illustrates the use of geographic information system (GIS) approaches in the study of wireless broadband planning and deployment. Case study findings suggest that GIS applications can make a significant contribution to the analysis of wireless deployment planning, to the understanding of the relationships between wireless signal sources and consumers, and to the spatial configuration of terrestrial wireless broadband networks. We conclude the paper by discussing how the GIS approach employed could be used to inform the public policy process with regard to increasing access to broadband Internet services in all regions of the country, and thereby providing the opportunity for all Canadians, regardless of location, to fully participate in the Information Society.     

中国藏医药系列数据库建设与发展

介绍中国藏医药系列数据库建设的背景、意义、内容和特色，概述在建库过程中应用西北民族大学中国民族信息技术研究院开发的同元藏文字处理软件的体会，并对该系列数据库的未来发展提出构想。     

专业信息中心专家资源的开发

专业信息中心在我国文献情报事业的发展中具有重要的地位和作用。本文根据专业信息用户的特点，提出了重新认识专业信息中心专家作用的观点，即：“专家是资源”、是“合作伙伴”、是亟待挖掘的“知识宝库”。并就如何组织和开发专家资源，加快信息开发，形成信息产品等进行了探讨。