Developing a Core Integration System for a National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library at WWW.SMETE.ORG

SMET教育国家数字图书馆核心集成系统(CIS)示范项目正在提供学科馆藏和相关服务的横向和纵向一体化运作。Www.smete.org代表着一个由近20个伙伴组织组成的联盟，这些组织包括学科收藏、教育机构、行业和非营利组织，该联盟正在努力为SMET教育建立一个国家数字图书馆的基础。合作者还包括在识别和收集K-12教育数字资源方面经验丰富的强大合作伙伴。该项目设想将这一虚拟设施作为SMET学习者社区成员彼此互动的场所，以开发、定位、使用和讨论数字资源，以加强课堂、课程、非正式环境以及学科内部和跨学科的教与学。为此，PI和团队正在开发一个图书馆门户网站，以演示资源的互操作性和跨多学科馆藏的联合搜索。此外，该项目正在协调SMET教育中跨多个学科的共享元数据的开发，并编制主题词库和描述SMETE中的教育学的描述符。其他活动包括参与其他试点项目，为图书馆制定管理结构，制定材料分类，以及确定与陈年材料管理有关的问题。国家科学基金会数学和物理科学局的多学科活动办公室正在为这一项目提供大量共同资金，以承认这项工作所涉及的学科范围之广。

This demonstration project for the Core Integration System (CIS) of a national digital library for SMET Education is providing functioning horizontal and vertical integration of disciplinary collections and associated services. Www.smete.org represents an alliance of nearly twenty partner organizations - disciplinary collections, educational institutions, industry, and non-profit organizations - that is working to establish the basis for a national digital library for SMET education. Collaborators also include strong partners with experience in identifying and collecting digital resources for K-12 education. The project envisions this virtual facility as a place where members of the SMET community of learners interact with one another to develop, locate, use and discuss digital resources that enhance teaching and learning in classrooms, in coursework, in informal settings, and within and across disciplines. Towards this end the PI and team are developing a library portal to demonstrate interoperability of resources and federated search across multiple disciplinary collections. In addition, the project is coordinating the development of shared metadata across multiple disciplines in SMET education and developing subject thesauri and descriptors for describing pedagogy in SMETE. Other activities include participation with other pilot projects in developing a governing structure for the library, developing classifications for ranking materials, and identifying issues associated with curation of aging materials. Significant co-funding of this project is being provided by the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities in the NSF Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences in recognition of the breadth of disciplinary coverage represented in this work.