DLESE Program Center 2007 Work Plan

地球系统教育数字图书馆（DLESE）最后一年的这一请求寻求支持：1）将DLESE过渡到一个新的商业模式，2）在此过渡期间保持对地球科学教育界的基本DLESE服务，以及3）确保获得DLESE馆藏中包含的教育资源超过资助期。本工作计划概述了维护、移交和保存图书馆的关键方面所需的任务和活动：图书馆内容、图书馆运作和图书馆服务。将开展必要的管理和行政工作，以监督最后一年的业务活动，并使图书馆顺利过渡到新的业务环境。这项工作针对许多NSF资助的教育计划和数字图书馆项目面临的一个关键挑战：长期可持续性的挑战。预计这里开发的方法和策略可以作为其他NSF计划的模型。本提案中提到的第二个关键挑战是，如何组织关键的技术基础设施，使其能够移交给另一个组织，以便图书馆能够继续提供服务。最后，随着DLESE开发的开放源码方法，流程和基础设施组件将继续可供其他人使用和建立。这一努力的结果将使地球科学教育界的其他团体能够继续利用DLESE的内容和服务。

This request for the final year of the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) seeks support to: 1) transition DLESE to a new business model, 2) maintain essential DLESE services to the geoscience education community during this transition period, and 3) insure access to the educational resources contained in DLESE collections beyond the funding period. This work plan outlines the tasks and activities necessary to maintain, handover, and preserve key facets of the library: Library Content, Library Operations, and Library Services. Necessary management and administration tasks will be conducted to oversee the final year of operations and the successful transition of the library to a new operating environment. This effort targets a key challenge facing many NSF-funded educational initiatives and digital library projects: the challenge of long-term sustainability. It is anticipated that the approaches and strategies developed here can serve as a model for other NSF programs. A second key challenge that is addressed in this proposal is one of organizing critical technical infrastructure in such a way that it can be transferred to another organization to provide the continued availability of the library. Finally, with the open-source approach of DLESE development, processes and infrastructure components will continue to be available for others to use and build upon. The results of this effort will allow the content and services of DLESE to continue to be leveraged by other groups in the geoscience education community.