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

本示范项目为SMET教育国家数字图书馆核心集成系统（CIS）提供学科馆藏和相关服务的横向和纵向功能集成。Www.smete.org代表了一个由近20个合作组织组成的联盟-学科收藏，教育机构，行业和非营利组织-正在努力为SMET教育建立一个国家数字图书馆的基础。合作伙伴还包括在确定和收集K-12教育数字资源方面具有经验的强大合作伙伴。该项目将这个虚拟设施设想为一个地方，在这里，SMET学习者社区的成员可以相互交流，开发、定位、使用和讨论数字资源，以提高课堂、课程作业、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，以演示资源的互操作性和跨多学科馆藏的联合搜索。此外，该项目正在协调跨SMET教育中多个学科的共享元数据的开发，并开发用于描述SMET教学方法的主题词典和描述符。其他活动包括参与其他试点项目，以制定图书馆的管理结构，制定对资料进行排名的分类，并确定与老化资料管理有关的问题。国家科学基金会数学和物理科学理事会的多学科活动办公室为这个项目提供了大量的共同资金，以表彰这项工作所代表的学科覆盖的广度。

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.