ComPADRE:

1. ComPADRE: Communities for Physics and Astronomy Digital Resource in Education American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) American Astronomical Society (AAS) American Physical Society (APS) Society of Physics Students/American Institute of Physics (SPS)

2. A Little History… • July 1997 – Physical Sciences Resource Center (PSRC) launched by the AAPT • June 2001 – PSRC working group suggested changes to the site • December 2001 – Survey of AAPT members about their needs for educational resources • January 2002 – Society Representatives meet to discuss a digital library effort • October 2002 – NSF Funding for ComPADRE

3. Project Structure: • Multiple focused collections • Meet needs of specific groups • Encourage user engagement • Common infrastructure • Sharing of resources, expertise • Quicker collection development • Community Involvement • Existing groups within societies • Engage with core initiatives

4. Teachers, LearnersResearchers, Developers Communities & Users Pre-College Astro 101 Inform. Ed. Students Quantum PER PIRA Collections WWW Physical Sciences Res. Cent. Link Libraries & Archives OJPS NSDL MERLOT

5. Community Connections (Who) • Collection Editors who are active in the communities supported • Collection Editorial Groups of experts to advise and recommend • Project Advisory Panel to provide directions and connections • Project PI’s part of societies to promote the library and make connections

6. Project Outreach Efforts (What) • Participation at Meetings – • Tutorials and Workshops on DL’s • Invited sessions on DL’s • User testing by participants • Work with Committees – • Presentations to committees • Recruitment of Editorial Boards • Solicitation of comments • Partnership with Technology Committee • Work with Governance Groups • Regular presentations to governing boards • Partnership on Societies’ efforts

7. Collection Successes • More than 100 responses to initial RFC • All Collections have recruited high-profile editorial board members • Pre-College is involved with web delivery of resource guide for new physics teachers • Pre-College is working with PTRA • Student has active sub-committees of the National SPS council • Student launched with a contest for a ComPADRE/Student Logo • Student survey of Research Experiences received more than 100 responses from Friday to Sunday

8. Collection Successes (cont’d.) • Informal Education is working with the APS Committee on Education • Quantum recruited members of AAPT 2YC, Undergrad, and Grad committees • Working with Open Source Physics and Physlet projects on meta-tagging • Tutorial at Summer AAPT meeting had 20 participants, positive responses • Invited Session at Summer AAPT meeting had more than 100 attendees • Interest in future workshops is high

9. Future Efforts • Engage users in participation in the library, through usage, contributions, comments, and review • Grow the library by serving new communities • Assess the library collections through usability tests, surveys, and open forums • Assess the library collection impact through usage studies following individual users

10. Editors: David Donnelly Cathy Ezrailson Marc Gagne Edward Lee Jessica Clark Co-PI’s: Susana Deustua Jack Hehn Warren Hein Fred Stein Advisory Board: Lisa Grable Beth Hufnagel Gregor Novak Stephen Pompea Anton Skorucak Technical Staff: Thad Lurie Lyle Barbato Funding: NSF: 0226129 Society Support Acknowledgements:

11. Suggestions from PSRC group: • A set of metadata should be developed for the materials already included in the PSRC and any new materials that are added. • The PSRC needs a site map that will help users find the materials and assist in the orderly development of the site. • A consistent set of templates and fonts that would improve the appearance and functionality of the site. • A procedure for collecting, peer reviewing, and cataloguing materials on the site. • Tools should be put in place that would make it easy to find and access information on the site.

12. Comments from Membership: • … focused resources in areas that are widely taught … provide real value added to the curriculum … • … the best digital libraries to be those that tightly focus the content … • … two large issues … archiving, … developer-community building. • … many sharing materials … of value to …The Physics Instructional Resource Association • … a repository for the curricula materials resulting from NSF or FIPSE or other projects … • … information on physics and astronomy education research … "ready-to-use" assessment … • … "standard" schema exist for tagging content … in accord with other large projects … • … the repository is more efficient, effective, and perhaps more permanent … • … use this vehicle to start an on-line PER journal? • … "nonstandard" topics … the material is not readily available … • … web-encode and license AAPT assets for use nationwide by physics teachers … other AAPT resources (publications … no longer in print) that could also be digitized … • … extensive "Brand new physics teacher kit online”… made available …

13. Metadata ---- • 3D Information Structure: • Topic • Resource Type • User Type and Grade Level • Standards Based Architecture • IMS/IEEE Standards • XML based structure • Shared with other DL’s • PIRA DCS Scheme (talk w/ PACS)

14. http://psrc.aapt.org • Search • Advanced Search • Browse Topic • Browse Resource • Browse Level • User Participation • Submit Items • Submit Comments • Personal File

15. In Development --- • Collection Organization • Editorial Workflow • Editorial Review • Relations between materials • Editor’s Comments (Background, Pedagogy, Application)

16. Future steps: • Load, process, and go live with collections (Student, Pre-College, Public, Astronomy) • Stimulate community participation • Involve other communities and projects in the NSDL • PER • JiTT • FLAG

17. Collaboration of the AAPT, APS, AIP, SPS, and AAS • Build prototype collections thatengage specific communities. • Create processes for communityparticipation in the collections. • Use existing expertise to addvalue to existing resources. • Support and expand the NationalDigital Library infrastructure.