DLI-Phase 2: Columbia Earthscape: A Model for a Sustainable Online Educational Resource in Earth Sciences

这是一个标准奖项。哥伦比亚大学出版社、校园计算中心和教职员工正在合作，为地球科学的尖端课程材料、研究和分析创建新的传播模式。基于哥伦比亚大学已经完成的学术在线出版的设计和评估工作，该项目的目标是为这一领域的教育材料创建一个完全集成的、高度选择性的互动在线资源，并评估以订阅为基础的、成本回收模式向教育机构、图书馆和学生提供这些服务的持续价值和经济可行性。通过试验使用数字技术的新发展，该项目有可能改变学生了解地球并在每个可能的层面上与之互动的方式，并为其他学科提供可效仿的模式。与哥伦比亚大学和全国的学者的讨论表明，可上网的在线出版是及时获得地球科学等跨学科领域最新研究成果这一学术交流和教育问题的一种可能解决方案。该项目通过易于使用的尖端电子工具，为该领域制作的各种材料提供了一种温和的、跨学科的学术在线出版物。在其制作者的支持下，已确定有大量高质量的地球科学奖学金和教材可供电子分发。该项目正在四个关键领域制作模式：在线内容的获取、审查和传播；发展一个有学者、出版商、图书馆和技术专家参与的协作组织；创建可跨项目和学科使用的标准化在线技术系统；利用在线环境在地球科学方面进行编辑选择性出版。每个模型的结果都可应用于其他领域和其他规模的数字资源的制作和评估，并将用实际数据解决有关这类项目在近期和长期的有用性和可行性的重大问题。

This is a standard award. Columbia University Press, the campus computing center, and faculty are collaborating to create new dissemination models for cutting-edge curricular materials, research, and analysis n Earth Sciences. Based upon design and evaluation work already done at Columbia with scholarly online publishing, the goal of this project is to create a fully-integrated, highly selective interactive online resource for educational materials in this field, and to evaluate the ongoing value and economic viability of providing these services on a subscription-based, cost-recovery model to educational institutions, libraries and students. By experimenting with ways to use new developments in digital technology, this project has the potential to transform the way students learn about the Earth and interact with it on every possible level, and it provides models for other disciplines to follow. Discussions with scholars at Columbia University and nationally reveal that internet-accessible, online publishing is a possible solution to the problem in scholarly communication and education of timely access to the latest research results in an interdisciplinary field such as Earth sciences. The project provides access through easy-to-use, cutting edge electronic tools to a moderated, interdisciplinary scholarly online publication of a wide variety of materials being produced in this field. A critical mass of high-quality Earth sciences scholarship and teaching material has been identified as available for electronic distribution with support from its producers. The project is producing models in four critical areas: online content acquisition, review and dissemination; development of a collaborative organization involving scholars, publishers, libraries, and technologists; creation of standardized online technology systems that can be used across projects and disciplines; and editorially selective publication in Earth sciences through use of the online environment. Findings from each model can be applied to the production and evaluation of digital resources in other fields and at other scales, and will address with real data the large questions concerning the usefulness and viability of such projects in the near and long term.