Collaborative Proposal: Personal Collections: Enhancing the Utility of the NSDL

这个国家STEM数字图书馆（NSDL）项目开发了一项服务，使教育工作者和学生能够从NSDL和其他数字图书馆创建个人资源收藏。为了有效地利用NSDL现有的（大约23万）数字资源，教育工作者和学生需要保留它们，分享它们并返回它们，就像他们使用印刷材料一样。该项目通过提供个人数字图书馆的等价物来满足这一需求，允许用户存储数字图书馆馆藏以及相关的识别元数据。此外，Personal Collection服务使用户能够使用个人分类法或组织方案对资源进行分类，添加注释（例如建议的引用），在协作学习和研究设置中与同事共享集合，以及使用元数据搜索同事的个人集合。用户还可以创建资源和学习对象的“包”，供学习内容编写工具和学习管理系统使用。这项服务有两个部分，一个是基于Dspace的Personal Collection服务器，另一个是在用户的互联网浏览器中运行的名为Keeper的跨平台客户端。该设计基于Internet服务架构，最大限度地利用了现有的开源技术。这个项目有希望使NSDL收藏更实用，因此更容易被教育工作者和学生使用。

This National STEM Digital Library (NSDL) project develops a service that gives educators and students the ability to create personal collections of resources from the NSDL and other digital libraries. To use the current (approximately 230,000) digital resources in the NSDL effectively, educators and students need to retain them, share them and return to them, just as they do with printed materials. This project addresses this need by providing the equivalent of a personal digital library, allowing patrons to store digital library holdings together with the associated identifying metadata. In addition, the Personal Collection service enables users to classify resources using personal taxonomies or organizational schemes, add annotations (such as the suggested citation), share collections with colleagues in collaborative learning and research settings, and search colleagues personal collections using metadata. Users can also create "packages" of resources and learning objects for use by learning content authoring tools and learning management systems. The service has two parts, a Personal Collection server, based on Dspace, and a cross-platform client called Keeper that runs in a user's Internet browser. The design is based on Internet services architecture and makes maximal use of existing open source technologies. This project holds the promise of making NSDL collections more practical to use, and therefore more accessible to educators and students alike.