Collaborative Project: Core Integration of the National SMETE Digital Library

一个机构团队正在开发国家 SMETE 数字图书馆计划核心集成组件的技术能力并履行组织职责。合作者包括：UCAR、康奈尔大学、哥伦比亚大学、加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校、马萨诸塞大学智能信息检索中心和圣地亚哥超级计算中心。该项目汇集了许多已经在进行的努力，并投入了新的努力，以支持一个综合性的大型数字图书馆，该图书馆有望加强科学、数学、工程和技术教育的各个方面。拟议工作的组织和技术基础分为三类工作，每类工作都在卓越教育的总体背景下进行：1）吸引社区，2）提供技术，3）运营核心服务。为了促进一个强大的 NSDL 社区的愿景，该社区认为自己拥有该计划并对图书馆的特征具有重大影响，项目团队正在与所有 NSDL 资助的项目合作，帮助将他们的工作整合到图书馆中。与美国国家科学基金会数字图书馆计划、博物馆和图书馆服务研究所资助的合作以及独立开发的馆藏和服务也在进行中。知识产权和数字版权管理模型的开发和支持，以及图书馆评估框架的推广、NSDL 项目咨询小组的管理以及 NSDL 总体治理机制的开发。一个强大、灵活的信息技术基础设施的实施基于两个主题：一系列互操作性和“一个图书馆有多个门户”。技术组件包括灵活的门户架构、中央元数据存储库、用于访问丰富内容的开源工具包以及用于身份验证和用户配置文件的数据库，所有这些都强调开放性和长期演进。最后，为广泛的教育和图书馆服务提供支持，在此初始阶段强调：NSDL 社区和 NSDL 合作伙伴的主要门户和专业门户的运营、用于搜索馆藏或单个项目的综合信息检索服务以及用于用户配置文件和身份验证的可选服务。该合作项目的另外两个奖项是0127298和0127308。

A team of institutions is developing the technical capabilities and executing the organizational responsibilities of the core integration component of the National SMETE Digital Library program. Collaborators include: UCAR, Cornell University, Columbia University, the University of California at Santa Barbara, the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval at the University of Massachusetts, and the San Diego Supercomputing Center. The project is bringing together many efforts already underway, and engaging new efforts as well, in support of a comprehensive large-scale digital library that promises to enhance every aspect of education in science, mathematics, engineering and technology. The organizational and technical underpinnings of the proposed work fall into three categories of effort, each within the overall context of educational excellence: 1) engaging the community, 2) providing technology, and 3) operating core services. To promote the vision of a strong NSDL community that sees itself as owning the program and having major influence on the character of the library, the project team is working with all NSDL-funded projects, helping to integrate their work into the library. Additional partnering with efforts such as those funded by the NSF's Digital Library Initiative and by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and independently developed collections and services, is also taking place. Development and support of models for intellectual property and digital rights management are being undertaken, as well as promotion of a library evaluation framework, administration of an NSDL program advisory group, and development of an overall governance mechanism for the NSDL. A robust, flexible information technological infrastructure is being implemented based on two themes: a spectrum of interoperability and "one library with many portals". Technical components include a flexible portal architecture, a central metadata repository, an open source tool kit for access to rich content, and a database for authentication and user profiles, all emphasizing openness and long-term evolution. Finally, support is provided for a very wide array of educational and library services, emphasizing in this initial phase: operation of the primary portal and specialized portals for the NSDL community and the NSDL partners, comprehensive information retrieval services to search for collections or individual items, and an optional service for user profiles and authentication. The other two awards in this collaborative project are 0127298 and 0127308.