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The US NSF NSDL

The US NSF NSDL. Phil Barker LTSN Engineering. Why Me?. I am not connected to the NSDL... The text on the slides is. Overview. The vision The methodology Example projects. NSDL Vision. Designed to meet the needs of learners, in both individual and collaborative settings

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The US NSF NSDL

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  1. The US NSF NSDL Phil Barker LTSN Engineering LTSN Librarians' Day

  2. Why Me? • I am not connected to the NSDL... • The text on the slides is. LTSN Librarians' Day

  3. Overview • The vision • The methodology • Example projects LTSN Librarians' Day

  4. NSDL Vision • Designed to meet the needs of learners, in both individual and collaborative settings • Constructed to enable dynamic use of a broad array of materials for learning, primarily in digital format • Actively managed to promote reliable anytime - anywhere access to quality collections and services, available both within and outwith the network LTSN Librarians' Day

  5. NSDL Users Tools Content NSDL Connects: LTSN Librarians' Day

  6. NSDL Connects: • Users: students, educators, life-long learners • Content: structured learning materials; large real-time or archived datasets; audio, images, animations;primary sources; digital learning objects (e.g. applets);interactive (virtual, remote) laboratories; ... • Tools: search; refer; validate; integrate; create; customize; publish; share; notify; collaborate; ... LTSN Librarians' Day

  7. Working Assumptions • The WWW is the primary medium (for now) • Content is a mix of “born digital” and analog • There is no lack of “great piles of ‘stuff’ ” • There is a need for “piles of great ‘stuff’ ” LTSN Librarians' Day

  8. Working Assumptions (2) • The “unit” of content can and will shrink • Users will increasingly be creators, and vice versa • While much of the use will be “free”, there is a need to explore multiple models of sustainability • Experimental nature of distributed digital library building - “one library, many portals” LTSN Librarians' Day

  9. Program Tracks • Core Integration • Collections • Services • Targeted (Applied) Research LTSN Librarians' Day

  10. Core Integration System Expectation: willcoordinate a distributed alliance of resource collection and service providers, and to ensure reliable and extensible access to and usability of the resulting network of learning environments and resources. • maintain gateway; • develop standards, and policies; • seek resource collections. LTSN Librarians' Day

  11. Collections Expectation aggregate and actively manage a subset of the digital library’s content within a coherent theme or specialty • Discovery, classification, cataloguing and location/delivery of content • Access to massive real-time or archived datasets • Software tool suites for analysis, modeling, simulation, or visualization • Reviewed commentary on learning materials and pedagogy LTSN Librarians' Day

  12. Services Expectation: to increase the impact, reach, efficiency, and value of the digital library in its fully operational form • collaborative learning environments using shared resources (synch/asynch) • Mechanisms for building personal annotated digital information spaces • Reliability testing for applets or other digital learning objects LTSN Librarians' Day

  13. Targeted Research Expectation: to have immediate impact on one or more of the other three tracks • Digital library usage studies • Building and sustaining user communities • Automated annotation of audio, image, or video resources • Applications of simulation or virtual world technology for virtual assistants • User interface construction and implementation LTSN Librarians' Day

  14. Funding • In FY 2000: $14M for 29 projects • In FY 2001: $25M for 35 more projects • In FY 2002: $25M for 41 more projects • More to come... LTSN Librarians' Day

  15. Timescale • Started in 2000, and ongoing • Some projects active already • NSDL operational at end of this year LTSN Librarians' Day

  16. Example Projects • Scout reports: fortnightly email/web reports of resources in Life sciences, physical sciences, and maths, engineering and technologyhttp://scout.wisc.edu/ • SMETE: catalogue of science, maths, engineering and technology education resources http://www.smete.org/ LTSN Librarians' Day

  17. Example Projects • myNDSL: portal http://dev.nsdlib.org:8083/mynsdl.html • DLNET Digital Library Network for Engineering and Technologyhttp://www.dlnet.vt.edu/ LTSN Librarians' Day

  18. More Info • Home page http://www.nsdl.org • NSF page (includes abstracts of all projects)http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/DUE/programs/nsdl/ • D-LIB articles: (http://dlib.org) • March 2001 - big picture • November 2002 - FY 2002 awards • November 2001 - FY 2001 awards • October 2000 - FY 2000 awards LTSN Librarians' Day

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