National Biology Digital Library

密苏里-哥伦比亚大学、国家超级计算应用中心（NCSA）、伊利诺伊大学和密苏里州植物园正在合作开展这个试点项目，为SMET教育的国家数字图书馆建立一个原型核心集成系统。该系统的技术基础设施建立在国家能力自评的分布式信息检索系统EMERGE的基础上。该系统正在扩展为一个适应性强、灵活的分布式搜索引擎，用于各种各样的学习环境和资源，并正在对密苏里州植物园的丰富植物内容以及伊利诺斯大学（大豆）和密苏里-哥伦比亚大学（玉米）的国家科学基金会植物基因组项目进行测试。与服务的无缝协调正在几个学习环境中提供，包括NCSA的生物学3.2。一个数字存储库，BLOE（生物学习对象交换），用于收集和组织实验，模拟和项目，从学习者和教师的协作学习。其他项目活动包括使用两所大学的各种本科生和研究生课程以及密苏里州植物园的K-12教育活动对用户服务要求、管理程序、评估方法和技术标准进行研究。

The University of Missouri-Columbia, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the University of Illinois, and the Missouri Botanical Garden are collaborating on this pilot project to build a prototype core integration system for a national digital library for SMET Education. The technical infrastructure for the system builds on the NCSA distributed information retrieval system, EMERGE. This system is being extended to an adaptive and flexible distributed search engine for a wide variety of learning environments and resources, and is being tested on the rich plant contents of the Missouri Botanical Garden, and the NSF Plant Genome projects at the University of Illinois (Soybean) and the University of Missouri-Columbia (Corn). Seamless coordination with services is being offered on several learning environments, including NCSA's Biology Workbench 3.2. A digital repository, BLOE (Biological Learning Object Exchange), serves to collect and organize experiments, simulations, and projects from learners and teachers for collaborative learning. Additional project activities include studies of requirements of user services, management procedures, evaluation methods, and technical standards using various undergraduate and graduate programs of the two universities and the K-12 educational activities of the Missouri Botanical Garden.