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Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) is a national collaborative project initiated by the University of Arizona and the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) and that is now part of the Global Resources Network of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), in cooperation with more than 50 partner institutions and personal members.〔"Advancing Your Search: An Interview with Maliaca Oxnam", Engineering Village Newsletter, August 4, 2009, http://mail.elsevier-alerts.com/go.asp?/bEEI001/mECMDQ8/uJQ0Q4/xJEMMQ8〕〔"TRAIL Expands Coverage and Welcomes Personal Members" at http://www.crl.edu/news/trail-expands-coverage-and-welcomes-personal-members 〕 TRAIL's purpose is to digitize, preserve, and make openly available technical reports published by agencies of the United States government (initially limited to those before 1975, but expanded in 2015 to remove the date restriction).〔"New TRAIL Database Gives Life to Historic Literature" at http://jeffline.jefferson.edu/aisrnews/?p=1556〕〔"Digitizing makes government reports more available to public." PHYSorg.com. 7 Jan 2011. http://phys.org/news/2011-01-digitizing.html〕 〔"TRAIL Expands Coverage and Welcomes Personal Members" at http://www.crl.edu/news/trail-expands-coverage-and-welcomes-personal-members 〕 Technical reports often contain detailed information not published elsewhere, but can be difficult to find.〔Laura Sare (2011): Availability of Legacy Government Documents Online, Internet Reference Services Quarterly, 16:1-2, 55-66 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10875301.2011.582824).〕〔Gerry McKiernan. "TRAIL: Technical Reports Archives and Image Library" at http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2008/11/trail-technical-reports-archives-and.html〕 As of March 2012, the collection includes more than 28,000 reports.〔Mel DeSart. "Blazing a TRAIL: A Shared Vision and Collaboration Lead to Digitization, Open Access and Preservation of U.S. Government Technical Reports" http://jlsc-pub.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1042&context=jlsc〕 Material is currently available from a number of current and former United States government agencies, including report series from the Atomic Energy Commission, Bureau of Mines, National Bureau of Standards, and National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, among others.〔Center for Research Libraries - TRAIL series list http://www.crl.edu/grn/trail/current-activities/series-list〕 ==History of the Project== TRAIL started as a pilot project to digitize, preserve and make accessible a small collection of government agency technical reports, both as proof of concept and to work through technical and logistical issues. The University of Arizona submitted a proposal to Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) for a technical report digitization pilot and received funding in early 2006 to begin the project in collaboration with CRL.〔Daureen Nesdill "How the Agility of Librarians Led to the Development of TRAIL" http://www.sla.org/pdfs/sla2012/ContributedPapersTuesSessionDaureenNesdill.pdf〕 Led by Maliaca Oxnam of the University of Arizona, the GWLA/CRL Federal Technical Reports Task Force created the appropriate metadata schema, established a pilot search interface at the University of Hawaii and scanned the first complete series, the Monograph Series of the National Bureau of Standards.〔"Providing OA to pre-1975 govt tech reports", Open Access News. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006/12/providing-oa-to-pre-1975-govt-tech.html〕 TRAIL is now part of the Global Resource Network (GRN) within CRL.〔http://www.crl.edu/grn/trail/about-trail/history-trail〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Technical Report Archive & Image Library」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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