Collaborative Project: Core Integration of the National SMETE Digital Library

一个机构团队正在开发技术能力，并履行国家SMETE数字图书馆计划核心集成部分的组织责任。合作伙伴包括：UCAR、康奈尔大学、哥伦比亚大学、加州大学圣巴巴拉分校、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，也正在进行新的努力，以支持一个综合性的大型数字图书馆，承诺加强科学、数学、工程和技术教育的方方面面。拟议工作的组织和技术基础分为三类工作，每一类工作都是在教育卓越的整体背景下进行的：1)吸引社区参与，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库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库中。与国家科学基金会数字图书馆倡议和博物馆和图书馆服务研究所资助的其他努力以及独立开发的藏品和服务也正在进行更多的合作。正在开发和支持知识产权和数字权利管理模式，以及促进图书馆评估框架，管理NSDL方案咨询小组，并制定NSDL的总体治理机制。正在根据两个主题实施一个强大、灵活的信息技术基础设施：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、中央元数据储存库、用于访问丰富内容的开放源码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，为一系列非常广泛的教育和图书馆服务提供支持，在这一初始阶段的重点是：为NSDL社区和NSDL合作伙伴运营主要门户和专门门户，提供全面的信息检索服务以搜索藏品或个人物品，以及可选的用户档案和认证服务。本次合作项目的另外两个奖项分别为0127308和0127520。

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 0127308 and 0127520.