Collaborative Research for a Geoscience Education Digital Library (GDL)

9978338Marlino该项目旨在开发一个地球科学数字图书馆（GDL），以支持本科教育和课程创新。 GDL的目标是帮助教师找到，评估，使用和创建支持本科地球系统科学主动学习的资源。 近期的两年目标是：（1）围绕一组服务台实施图书馆的可用版本，（2）建立一个可持续和积极的社区基础设施，以支持，填充，使用和管理图书馆。 该项目将为建立一个与世界各地其他图书馆连接的综合性地球科学数字图书馆奠定基础。 GDL将由大学大气研究公司、地震学联合研究机构、凯克地质联合会、大学空间研究协会地球系统科学计划、科罗拉多大学终身学习和设计中心以及加州大学圣巴巴拉分校之间的独特合作建立。 该小组提供所需的专业知识和领导能力，以响应社区对高质量教育材料电子储存库的一系列要求。 他们将共同开发，评估和传播这个图书馆作为国家教育资源。 GDL解决了国家地球科学教育报告中提出的几项需求。 该团队的主要优势之一是其跨学科性质，支持新兴的地球系统科学方法。 该图书馆将促进所有学生和教职员工平等获得优质教育材料，包括为传统上代表性不足的人口服务的机构的学生。 将促进传播“最佳做法”和当代教学方法。 将利用以前没有以这种方式联系起来的几个社区的优势和生产力。 最后，GDL将提供对新材料的访问，这种大型数据集以前对许多研究丰富的机构之外的人来说是不可用的。 图书馆的内容将是一个URL和元数据的集合，用于识别大型数据集、课程材料、集合、图像和摘要。 该项目将采用开放式体系结构标准，并以数字图书馆界的研究和开发现状为基础。 将建立机制，以确保可扩展性、可重用性和可持续性。 图书馆将是动态的，在这个意义上，教师将贡献馆藏，评估这些馆藏，并在材料开发的过程中支持未来的馆藏。 将编制资源评价材料，并将建立一个社区主导的讨论进程，以便能够创建标准化分类和词汇。 一个咨询委员会将提供指导和监督，并将与对数字图书馆感兴趣的其他团体建立联系。 最后，将为该项目建立一个全面的文件编制和评价程序。 预计该项目将在教育和数字图书馆领域取得进展。 通过增加获得优质材料的机会，该项目将促进研究融入本科教育。 社区讨论的新水平将导致地球系统科学的创新方法，促进以学生为中心的主动学习技术。 传统上得不到充分服务的人口将更容易获得科学调查的工具和方法。 对于数字图书馆社区，GDL将实施创新的分类方法，并展示支持联合数字图书馆开发社区过程的方法和工具。 该奖项由教育和人力资源局本科教育司和地球科学局联合颁发。

9978338MarlinoThis project seeks to develop a Geoscience Digital Library (GDL) to support undergraduate education and curricular innovation. The goal of the GDL is to help faculty find, evaluate, use, and create resources that support active learning in undergraduate Earth System science. The immediate two-year objective is to: (1) implement a usable version of the library organized around a set of service desks and, (2) establish a sustainable and active community infrastructure which will support, populate, use, and govern the library. The project will lay the foundation for a comprehensive geoscience digital library linked to other libraries worldwide. The GDL will be built by a unique collaboration among University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Keck Geology Consortium, Earth systems Science Program of the Universities Space Research Association, Center for Lifelong Learning and Design of the University of Colorado, and University of California, Santa Barbara. This team provides the expertise and leadership required to respond to a series of community calls for an electronic repository of high-quality educational materials. Together, they will develop, evaluate, and disseminate this library as a national educational resource. The GDL addresses several needs articulated in the national reports on geoscience education. One of the primary strengths of the team is its cross-disciplinary nature that supports the emerging Earth systems science approach. The library will promote equal access to quality educational materials for all students and faculties, including those students in institutions that serve traditionally under-represented populations. The distribution of "best practices" and contemporary pedagogical approaches will be facilitated. The strengths and productivity of several communities that have not been linked in this manner before will be leveraged. Finally, GDL will provide access to new materials, such a large data sets that have been previously unavailable to many outside the research-rich institutions. Contents of the library will be a collection of URL's and metadata that identify large data sets, curricular materials, collections, images, and abstracts. The project will employ open architecture standards and be based on the current state of research and development in the digital library community. Mechanisms will be put in place to insure scalability, re-usability, and sustainability. The library will be dynamic in the sense that faculty will contribute holdings, evaluate those holdings, and be supported in the process of materials development for future holdings. Resource evaluation materials will be developed, and a community-led discourse process will be established to enable the creation of standardized taxonomies and vocabularies. An Advisory Board will provide guidance and oversight, and linkages will be made with other groups interested in digital libraries. Finally, a comprehensive documentation and evaluation process for the project will be instituted. Advances anticipated from the project are in both the educational and digital library arenas. Through increased access to quality materials, the project will foster the integration of research into undergraduate education. New levels of community discussion will result in innovative approaches to Earth systems science that foster student-centered and active learning techniques. Traditionally under-served populations will have improved access to the tools and methods of scientific inquiry. For the digital library community, the GDL will implement innovative approaches to classification and demonstrate methodologies and tools that support the community process of federated digital-library development. The award is made jointly by the Division of Undergraduate Education of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources and the Directorate for Geosciences.