Providing Leadership, Coordination and Community Building through the DLESE Project Office

DLESE企业拥有巨大的希望，将提供关键的基础设施，以支持地球科学界促进地球系统教学和学习的许多努力。但DLESE的规模、复杂性和成功正在挑战核心服务和合作伙伴组织的治理结构和有效性，以实现这一承诺。这限制了DLESE发挥其全部潜力。DLESE需要一位敬业的领导者，能够让社区参与进来，在思想和行动上自律，并合乎逻辑地朝着图书馆的使命和目标前进。通过这个过程，DLESE可以从一个非常好的组织转变为一个伟大的组织。国际地球科学协会将设立一个数字地学资源中心项目办公室(DPO)，领导围绕数字地学中心数字馆藏增长的社区讨论，协调各项服务的发展，以支持创建示范资源并将其用于加强地球科学教育，并领导核心服务小组的社区建设活动。未来两年是DLESE重新评估当前活动和规划未来的许多机会。特别是，环境司将根据质量计划中的建议对图书馆进行重大改进；接受国家科学基金会拟议的审查；更新2001年战略计划；并确定2006年以后继续开展环境司工作的战略。这些活动中的每一项都需要付出巨大的努力，并承诺继续专注于DLESE的目标。每一次都将对DLESE的发展和未来产生持久的影响。作为执行董事，私人助理将与指导委员会和管理委员会合作，指导环境与环境司完成这些活动。为了改进DLESE的规划和运作，PI将使用一系列管理工具，并将实施一个正式的方案管理系统，该系统强调目标设定、优先顺序、反映项目综合性质的时间表、资源分配和方案评估。PI将推动开发新的通信和内容生成工具，以鼓励个人和特殊利益团体对DLESE企业进行社区驱动的创新和定制，与核心服务部门合作，将DLESE定位为所有重大地球网络基础设施项目的教育合作伙伴，并与NSF地球科学局支持的所有主要设施和中心发展正式合作伙伴关系。

The DLESE enterprise holds great promise for providing critical infrastructure to support the geoscience community's many efforts to advance teaching and learning about the Earth system. But DLESE's size, complexity, and success are challenging the governing structure and the effectiveness of the Core Services and partner organizations to fulfill this promise. This is limiting DLESE from reaching its full potential. DLESE needs a dedicated leader that can keep the community engaged, disciplined in thought and actions, and progressing logically toward the library's mission and goals. Through this process, DLESE can move from being a very good organization to being a great one. The PI will establish a DLESE Project Office (DPO) to lead community discussions surrounding the growth of the DLESE digital collection, coordinate the development of the services that will support the creation of exemplary resources and their use in enhancing geoscience education, and lead the community-building activities of the Core Service groups. The next two years hold many opportunities for DLESE to reevaluate its current activities and plan for the future. In particular, DLESE will implement significant enhancements to the library based on recommendations in the Quality Plan; undergo a proposed review by NSF; update the 2001 Strategic Plan; and identify strategies for continuation of the DLESE enterprise beyond 2006. Each of these activities will require significant effort and a commitment to stay focused on DLESE's goals. Each will have a lasting impact on the development and future of DLESE. As Executive Director, the PI will work with the Steering Committee and Management Council to guide DLESE through these activities. To improve the planning and operations of DLESE, the PI will use an array of management tools and will implement a formal program management system that emphasizes goal setting, prioritization, scheduling that reflects the integrated nature of the project, apportionment of resources, and program evaluation. The PI will push for development of new communication and content generation tools to encourage community-driven innovations to the library and customization of the DLESE enterprise by individuals and special interest groups, work with the Core Services to position DLESE as the educational partner for all major geo-cyberinfrastructure projects, and develop formal partnerships with all major facilities and centers supported by NSF's Directorate for Geosciences.