Opportunities for Collaboration With NSDL and DLESE

1. Opportunities for Collaboration With NSDL and DLESE NCAR Directors’ Meeting March 16, 2006

2. What is a Digital Library? • NSDL Overview • DLESE Overview • Opportunities for Collaboration

3. What is a Digital Library? Digital Resources + Organizational Framework + Interface for Discovery + Context + Tools and Services + Community

4. Digital Libraries Offer Coordinated and Contextual Access Information About Resources

5. The National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library The National Science Foundation’s online library of resources for education and research … …established to catalyze and support continual improvements in STEM education at all levels (K-12, Higher Education, and Lifelong Learning).

7. NSDL Pathways • Educational level and discipline specific views of NSDL • Built by leading organizations trusted by target audience • Provide resources, tools, services, and professional development

8. Lead Ed Level Discipline

9. As of February 1, 2006… Materials from NSDL-funded projects and other resource and data providers included: 584 unique collections of resources 1,084,715 individual items

10. Analyzing NSDL Usage • Distributed model of NSDL usage • NSDL.org --around 12,000 hits per month • NSDL.org plus a group of 8 other partner sites – around 100,000 hits per month

11. Collaborating with NSDL • Contribute Resources via DLESE • News and Events • Expert Voices Service

14. Expert Voices As An Educational Tool • Topic-based discussion (e.g. tornadoes) with pointers to related resources • Education and Public Outreach– explaining and documenting research • Experts can add resources with topical context to the NSDL • Resources can be reviewed and annotated • Question/answer and discussion forum: scientist ↔ teacher↔ librarian ↔ student

15. Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)NSDL’s Earth system & geoscience education node • Access to high-quality collections of educational resources • Access to Earth data sets, imagery, tools and interfaces • Support services to help educators and learners effectively create, use, and share educational resources • Communication networks to facilitate interactions and collaborations

16. Resource Priorities • Publicly available • Engage users in learning • Activities, lesson plans, case studies, data with educational wrappers, visualizations • Span geosciences • Ocean & water sciences • Geology • Atmospheric sciences • Biosciences, ecology, etc • Space, math & geography

17. Benefits of Contributing • Distribution: to NSDL and other portals • Exposure: to different audiences • Discovery: can be targeted & available to contributors website through web services • Reputation: if complete process to be part of DLESE Reviewed Collection • Support: in collection development and management

18. Contribute 1: Suggest a Resource Complete the Suggest a Resource Form Enter title, URL, description & contributor name on a form Easy to do; DLESE finishes the cataloging

20. Contribute 2: A Collection of Resources • Researchers & groups with many resources create a distinct collection • State collection purpose • Make metadata records in XML • Supports tailored searching

22. Contribute 3: News & Opportunities • Time-sensitive materials • Usually have start and end dates • Includes • Workshops • Conferences • Grants • Jobs • Career information • Calls for participation • Enter on a web form (can be a collection too)

23. Contribute 3: News & Opportunity

24. Potential Resources • HAO: • Solar Astronomy in Prehistoric Southwest • The Sun: A Pictorial Introduction • ASP: • Webcasts • Applications: • NCL, IDV, Vis5d

25. UCAR/NCAR already in DLESE • As a collection: GLOBE & COMET • As individual resources: Windows to the Universe, Webweather, LEARN module • As news & opportunities: National Center for Atmospheric Research: Faculty Fellowship Program

26. DLESE and NSDL offer web services … • Embeds the search engine into research and education websites, e.g., universities, research centers, libraries, and public schools • Expands the resource and educational offerings of those institutions and provides local access for the convenience of students, educators, TAs, and the public

27. Pretend this is your site… Imagine this is a page in your web site… Education & Outreach • Your • Site • Navigation • Here What this area is about. Paragraph or 2 of information about the purpose of this area or this page. Add the ability to search DLESE or NSDL Find Earth system educational resources on specific topics of interest to your audience: Special queries you create for your audience Search for : SEARCH • Science topic of interest 1 • Science topic of interest 2 • Science topic of interest 3 • News and Earth events • Conferences/Workshops • Professional development Search results Use the DLESE web service’s template to decide what to display in results and how. Could include these and more. TitleURLDescriptionGrade RangeType of resourceSubject Educational standards Teaching tipsReviewsResource Creator/PublisherTechnical requirementsAnd much more…

28. The DLESE search query and results embedded into your site’s look and feel

31. Katy Ginger ginger@ucar.edu x8341 www.dlese.org Susan Van Gundy vangundy@ucar.edu x2946 nsdl.org Further Contacts