NSDL Core Integration - Increasing Capacity and Engagement

在该项目中，国家科学数字图书馆(NSDL)核心集成(CI)团队正在建设能力，并参与为科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)教育提供多方面服务的伙伴关系努力，以期在2008年初为NSDL建立一个管理实体。这项工作利用了NSDL的两个关键开发：i)NSDL Path战略，该战略通过与学科或特定受众的内容聚合器的合作伙伴关系来扩展图书馆建设；以及ii)为NSDL过渡到基于开源Fedora系统的以资源为中心的数据存储库架构。在实施这些协作的社会和技术战略时，CI将nsdl定位为教育网络基础设施，可以提供适应性强且可扩展的协作和技术服务，利用nsdl的S跨可信组织和网络建立关系的能力，并吸引STEM教育的主要倡导者。具体活动包括：1)维护NSDL基础设施的持续运作(例如，维护核心服务、提供馆藏开发服务和工具、概念浏览能力、面向标准的资源发现以及元数据质量和搜索和发现改进)；2)协作性外联和交流(伙伴关系建设、交叉推广和联合品牌推广，使传播努力成倍增加，包括路径合作伙伴、专业协会和教育出版商的努力)；3)继续协调整个NSDL社区的专业发展(例如，提高用户将数字资源纳入教育实践的能力；培训教员；馆藏开发；协助其他图书馆建设者提高发现能力；支持将NSDL嵌入现有用户工作流程(例如，通过学校图书馆、教科书出版商、NSTA网络研讨会、外联活动和会议等现有用户信息渠道扩大对NSDL的访问；向合作伙伴组织提供工具和服务，以加强用户互动，例如协作维基、专家之声博客环境和NSDL数据储存库(NDR)架构的实施)。

In this project the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Core Integration (CI) team is building capacity and engaging in partnership efforts across multiple dimensions of service to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in anticipation of the establishment of a managing entity for NSDL in early 2008. This work leverages two key NSDL developments: i) the NSDL Pathways strategy which scales library building via partnerships with discipline or audience-specific aggregators of content; and ii) the transition to a resource-centric data repository architecture for NSDL based on the open-source Fedora system. In implementing these collaborative social and technological strategies, CI has positioned NSDL as an educational cyberinfrastructure, which can deliver adaptive and scalable collaborative and technological services that leverage NSDL''s relationship-building capacity across trusted organizations and networks, and engage primary advocates for STEM education. Specific activities include: i) preservation of ongoing operations for the NSDL infrastructure (e.g. maintenance of core services, provision of collection development services and tools, conceptual browsing capability, standards-oriented resource discovery, and metadata quality and search and discovery improvements); ii) collaborative outreach and communications (partnership-building and cross-promotion and co-branding that multiplies dissemination efforts, including those of Pathways partners, professional societies, and educational publishers); iii) continued coordination of professional development across the NSDL community (e.g. increasing user ability to integrate digital resources into educational practice; training trainers; collections development; assisting other library builders to enhance discoverability; and developing models, policies, and best practices); and iv) supporting the embedding of NSDL in existing user workflows (e.g. expanding access to NSDL through existing user information channels such as school libraries, textbook publishers, NSTA web seminars, outreach events and conferences; and delivering tools and services to partner organizations that enhance user interaction such as collaborative wikis, the Expert Voices blogging environment, and implementation of the NSDL Data Repository (NDR) architecture).