National Biology Digital Library

密苏里大学哥伦比亚分校、国家超级计算应用中心（NCSA）、伊利诺伊大学和密苏里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NCSA分布式信息检索系统EMERGE之上。该系统正被扩展为一个适应和灵活的分布式搜索引擎，适用于各种各样的学习环境和资源，并正在密苏里植物园丰富的植物内容，以及伊利诺斯大学（大豆）和密苏里-哥伦比亚大学（玉米）的NSF植物基因组项目中进行测试。在几个学习环境中，包括NCSA的生物工作台3.2，提供了与服务的无缝协调。一个数字存储库，BLOE（生物学习对象交换），用于收集和组织来自学习者和教师的实验、模拟和项目，以进行协作学习。其他项目活动包括利用两所大学的各种本科生和研究生课程以及密苏里植物园的K-12教育活动，研究用户服务的需求、管理程序、评估方法和技术标准。

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.