Where Have We Come From and Where Are We Going? Learning the Lessons and Disseminating Exemplary Practices from the Projects of the NSDL

该项目正在创建一个关于迄今为止在开发国家空间数据库方面的工作中取得的有希望的做法和经验教训的公开知识库。这个丰富的动态资源包括：i）关于参与者所学内容的反思、故事和回忆（正式和非正式）; ii）与各种NSDL项目相关的文章、论文和演示文稿的注释书目。该项目正在使用一种开放机制（维基技术和KEEP工具包）来收集、创建和分享它所积累的知识;就其性质而言，它正在向NSDL的社区以及更大的数字图书馆和技术强化学习社区传播这些知识。通过人种学方法，该项目力求确定和突出NSDL社区的全部经验。该项目的两个特殊要素说明了其智力价值。首先是调查人员团队，他们在NSDL方面拥有丰富的经验，并带来了他们在技术和评估方面的个人背景，沿着他们与过去和当前资助的NSDL项目的关系。其次，该项目利用社交网络工具和机制来收集和组织参与建设NSDL的人的故事和经验。该项目更广泛的影响在于分享NSDL的“故事”，超越了最初的NSDL社区的项目，对其他涉及多个机构和协作项目的大规模技术增强学习计划的未来方向产生影响。这些努力的例子包括由威廉和植物群休利特基金会支持的开放教育资源运动正在进行的工作，以及NSF正在进行的其他新生的网络基础设施项目。

This project is creating an open knowledge collection of promising practices and lessons learned from the work to date on the development of NSDL. This rich, dynamic resource consists of: i) reflections, stories and recollections (formal and informal) about what participants learned; and ii) an annotated bibliography of articles, papers, presentations associated with various NSDL projects. The project is using an open mechanism (wiki technology and the KEEP Toolkit) for collecting, creating and sharing the knowledge it is accruing; and by its very nature it is disseminating this knowledge to NSDL's communities, as well as the larger digital library and technology enhanced learning communities. Through an ethnographic approach the project seeks to identify and highlight the full range of experiences of the NSDL community. Two particular elements of the project speak to its intellectual merit. First is the team of investigators who have extensive experience with the NSDL and bring their individual backgrounds in technology and evaluation, along with their relationships with past and current funded NSDL projects. Second is that the project exploits social networking tools and mechanisms to collect and organize the stories and experiences of those involved with building the NSDL. The broader impacts of the project lie in sharing the NSDL "story" beyond the initial NSDL community of projects, to wield an influence on the future direction of other large-scale technology enhanced learning initiatives involving multiple institutions and collaborative projects. Examples of such efforts include those being undertaken by the Open Educational Resources movement supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and other nascent cyberinfrastructure projects underway at NSF.