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The ESIP Federation and Digital Libraries

The ESIP Federation and Digital Libraries. Panel: Carol Terrizzi – NSDL Rajul Pandya – DLESE Dave Brown – GLOBE Jim Frew – ESIP Federation Moderator: Tamara Shapiro Ledley. What Are Digital Libraries?.

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The ESIP Federation and Digital Libraries

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  1. The ESIP Federation and Digital Libraries Panel: Carol Terrizzi – NSDL Rajul Pandya – DLESE Dave Brown – GLOBE Jim Frew – ESIP Federation Moderator: Tamara Shapiro Ledley

  2. What Are Digital Libraries? • Online resource that allows easy access to useful documents, data, and services that would otherwise be • Hard to identify • Too distant to obtain • Too distributed to put together in a useful way • Too complex to be useful

  3. Range of Digital Libraries • Overarching Digital Libraries (NSDL, DLESE) • Broad Topical Digital Libraries (GLOBE) • Organizational Digital Libraries (ESIP Federation Education Center) • Specific Digital Libraries (Earth Exploration Toolbook, MTPE-Earth Update & Space Update, Online courses)

  4. Overarching Digital Libraries • Highly developed searching capabilities • Hold few resources but contain metadata that provides pointers to many distributed resources • Provides services • Mechanisms for different communities to interact (DLESE K12 listserve, DLESE Community and Issues portal) • Mechanisms to interact with other communities (NSDL Ask a Scientist) • Mechanisms for community to become involved in development of library • Can distinguish high quality resources through review criteria

  5. Broad Topical Digital Libraries • Specific search capabilities • Holds a specific collection of data and/or information • Provides services specific to the collection and the activities to support that collection • Support for developers of the collection • Support for users of the collection (visualization capabilities, analysis tools) • May provide mechanisms for the community to interact

  6. Organizational Digital Libraries • Some search capabilities (maybe) • Identifies resources developed by organization • Generally provides limited or no services

  7. Specific Digital Libraries • Mainly browse capabilities • Developed around a particular topic and/or need • Contains all the documents and data (or transparent pointers to that information) needed to use that digital library • Developed to be • Discoverable in an Overarching Digital Library (EET) • Used in a specific location (museum-MTPE) or context (college course)

  8. ESIP Federation & Digital Libraries • Overarching Digital Libraries (NSDL & DLESE) • Building the technical infrastructure to deliver excellent science educational materials to educators • NEEDS CONTENT • ESIP Federation • Has a wealth of Earth science data • Has developed tools to facilitate looking at that data • Has developed science knowledge using that data and tools • NEEDS MORE EFFECTIVE DISCOVERY AND DISTRIBUTION MECHANISMS

  9. Digital Libraries Panel • Carol Terrizzi • Rajul Pandya • Dave Brown • Jim Frew

  10. Potential Topics of Discussion • How can the ESIP Federation and the digital libraries collaborate to meet each other's needs • How can the ESIP Federation support the digital libraries? • How can the ESIP Federation benefit from the digital libraries? • Potential mechanisms to support collaboration/ cooperation - facilitate adding links in the value chain for Earth Science data and resources • ESIP Federation Clusters • NSDL Interest Groups • DLESE Working Groups/Birds of a Feather • GLOBE Franchises

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