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Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)

PROGRAM GOAL STATEMENT

The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) is a distributed, community-based electronic library dedicated to improving the quality, quantity, and efficiency of teaching and learning about the Earth system at all educational levels. It capitalizes on developments in modern information technology to make full use of, and bring order to, the World Wide Web for the purpose of empowering any teacher, learner, or citizen seeking to understand the Earth system to easily discover the right educational materials for their purposes and be assured of their high quality.

DLESE is a product of the wide recognition of the need for improved science education across the national, state, and local levels and greater access to quality science education for all. Emerging information and communications technologies present a means of maximizing investments in science education by providing the necessary integration services and community support to promote synergy across otherwise disparate projects.

DLESE was founded at the seminal 1999 Portal to the Future workshop, at which the basic program structure and mechanisms for community-based governance were established. The full program plan was subsequently articulated in the DLESE Community Plan, which laid out the community’s vision for the first stages of library development; the plan was later codified in a DLESE Strategic Plan. Both plans can be found at www.dlese.org under “Documents About DLESE”. The Strategic Plan articulates a pathway to a reliable, robust, operational library that is designed to integrate across distributed community collections.

Two NSF awards since 1999 have supported the initial phases of library development. A DLESE Program Center (DPC) was established at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) as an operational hub to support the development of the technical infrastructure of the library (the scope of the technical support provided by the DPC can be seen at www.dlese.org under “About DLESE”). A collaboration of the DPC, Carleton College, Montana State, and the University of Colorado—in partnership with other important institutions and with extensive community input—has produced a working prototype library. Over 2000 resources in the initial collection can be accessed by a discovery system that enables users to search by grade level, educational resource type, and keyword. This version also contains a Resource Cataloger, community-oriented services such as discussion forums for established working groups and “discussion groups”, and a community opportunities and announcements posting tool. The working library prototype can be accessed via www.dlese.org.


PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS

PROGRAM RELEVANT LINKS


RELEVANCE TO NATIONAL AND AGENCY MISSION

Integration of People, Ideas, and Tools


IS THIS AN NSF-WIDE ACTIVITY?

It is the GEO component of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL)


IS IT A CROSS-CUTTING ACTIVITY?

DLESE cuts across all geoscience disciplines.

MERIT REVIEW (MAIL AD-HOC)

No program data submitted

MERIT REVIEW DIVERSITY
Male:  White: 
Female:  Unknown: 
   
American Indian or Alaskan:  Handicapped: 
Black or African American:   
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander:  New Reviewers: 

OUTPUTS AND OUTCOMES EXAMPLES

Grant Number:

Nugget: Yes/No | High Risk: Yes/ No | Multi-disciplinary: Yes/No | Innovative: Yes/No

None submitted by program


SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS AND ADVANCES

Grant Number:

Nugget: Yes/No | High Risk: Yes/ No | Multi-disciplinary: Yes/No | Innovative: Yes/No

None submitted by program


RESULTS RELEVANT TO THE FIELD, TO NATIONAL PRIORITIES, THE NSF'S MISSION AND TO ITS OUTCOME GOALS (PEOPLE, IDEAS, TOOLS)

Grant Number:

Nugget: Yes/No | High Risk: Yes/ No | Multi-disciplinary: Yes/No | Innovative: Yes/No

None submitted by program


PROGRAM STATISTICS


Number of Proposal Actions

    FY00:

    • Awards: 1
    • Declines: 0
    • Other: 0

    FY01:

    • Awards: 3
    • Declines: 0
    • Other: 0

    FY02:

    • Awards: 1 (0215640)
    • Declines: 0
    • Other: 0

Award Size and Duration

    • FY02: $1,484,271 (EIS data doubtful?)

Dwell Time
No EIS-derived data is available

Funding Rate
No EIS-derived data is available



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