NSF PR 00-85 - November 2, 2000
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National Digital Library Goal Boosted By NSF Awards
Projects to develop library for
science, math education
A national online digital library, considered a key
step toward addressing the digital divide, moved closer
to reality recently with 29 awards totaling some $13.5
million from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The awards aim to create, organize and install high-quality
education resources onto the Internet.
The awards from NSF's National Science, Mathematics,
Engineering and Technology Education Digital Library
(NSDL) program may strongly affect K-12 and undergraduate
education by providing anytime, anywhere access to
a rich array of authoritative and reliable interactive
materials and environments, according to Lee Zia,
NSDL program officer at NSF.
The awards for 2000 range in size from $160,000 to
$840,000 over two years. Some of the newly funded
projects focus on gathering and organizing content
in areas such as geosciences, life sciences, engineering
and mathematics. Others will develop the processes
to manage and coordinate that content in the library's
core collections, and develop services for users and
collection providers.
"NSF's goal is to provide access to the very best standards
based, inquiry driven learning for K-12 and undergraduate
students," says Judith Sunley, interim assistant director
for Education and Human Resources. "The NSDL also
will serve as a platform to enhance the professional
development of teachers and faculty."
The program continues ongoing efforts of the national,
multi-agency Digital Libraries Initiative begun in
1994, which has involved NSF, the Department of Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, and other federal agencies.
For more information see: http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/ehr/due/programs/nsdl/
Attachment: List of NSDL
awards
Attachment
National Science, Mathematics, Engineering & Technology
Education Digital Library (NSDL) Awardees
Brown University
Andy van Dam - Collaborative Project: A Component
Repository and Environment for Assembly of Teaching
Environments (CREATE) - Amount: $244,000
University of California-Berkeley
Alice Agogino - Developing a Core Integration System
for a NSDL Library - Amount:$846,616
California State University Foundation
Gerry Hanley - Peer Review of Digital Learning
Materials: Critical Service for Digital Libraries
- Amount:$375,000
Carnegie-Mellon University
Howard Wactlar - Threading Information Pathways
Through NSDL Video (Services Proposal) - Amount:
$500,000
Dave Yaron - Collaborative Project: A Component
Repository and Environment for Assembly of Teaching
Environments (CREATE) - Amount: $244,000
Columbia University
Kim Kastens - Collaborative Project: To Gather,
Document, Filter and Assess the Broad and Deep Collection
of the Digital Library for Earth Systems Education
- Amount: $98,711
Kate Wittenberg - Columbia Pubscape: A Core Integration
System for a National Science Digital Library Publishing
Center - Amount: $497,212
Cornell University
Bill Arms - The NSDL Central System - Amount:
$799,085
Dogan Seber - Collection and Distribution of Geoscience
(Solid Earth) Data Sets for the National Science Digital
Library - Amount: $158,000
Drexel University
Michael Atwood - Improving Knowledge Transfer:
Prioritizing Content Creation in Digital Libraries
Using Competitive Intelligence Systems - Amount:
$498,751
Dartmouth College
Barbara DeFelice - Collaborative Project: To Gather,
Document, Filter and Assess the Broad and Deep Collection
of the Digital Library for Earth Systems Education
- Amount: $98,711
Eastern Michigan University
Ellen Hoffman - TeacherLIB--Digital Community and
Collections for Science and Mathematics Teacher Education
- Amount: $799,864
Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, Calif.
Chris DiLeonardo - Collaborative Project: To Gather,
Document, Filter and Assess the Broad and Deep Collection
of the Digital Library for Earth Systems Education
- Amount: $98,711
University of Missouri-Columbia
Su-Shing Chen - National Biology Digital Library
- Amount: $805,680
Ohio State University Research Foundation
Kim Roempler - National Digital Library for Undergraduate
Mathematics, Science, and Technology Teacher Preparation
and Professional Development - Amount: $500,013
Syracuse University
Elizabeth Liddy - Breaking the Metadata Generation
Bottleneck - Amount: $366,293
University of Utah
Sharon Dennis - A Digital Multimedia Library for
Health Sciences Education - Amount: $355,678
Utah State University
Mimi Recker - The Instructional Architect: A System
for Discovering, Recommending, and Combining Learning
Objects - Amount: $399,878
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Saifur Rahman - A Digital Library Network for Engineering
and Technology - Amount: $605,573
Washington and Lee University
Frank Settle - The Alsos Digital Library -
Amount: $224,349
American Association for the Advancement of Science,
Washington, DC
Yolanda George - Biosciences Education Network
(BEN) - Amount: $799,285
American Geological Institute, Alexandria, Va.
Sharon N. Tahirkheli - Collaborative Project: To
Gather, Document, Filter and Assess the Broad and
Deep Collection of the Digital Library for Earth Systems
Education - Amount: $98,711
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Ill.
Chris Klaus - Atmospheric Visualization Collection
- Amount: $741,660
Mathematical Association of America, Washington,
D.C.
Lang Moore - MATHDL: A Library of Online Learning
Materials in Mathematics and Its Applications
- Amount: $856,257
National Association of Biology Teachers, Reston,
Va.
Wayne Carley - Biology Education Online -- An Interactive
Electronic Journal - Amount: $749,487
solutions-united.com, Syracuse, N.Y.
Woojin Paik - Breaking the Metadata Generation
Bottleneck - Amount: $366,293
Texas Engineering Experiment Station, College Station,
Texas
Rick Furuta - Metadocuments as Communicative Artifact
to Enable Use of a Research Digital Library in Undergraduate
SMET Education - Amount: $249,945
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research,
Boulder, Colo.
Dave Fulker - Core Integration Services for a Federated
NSDL - Amount: $599,924
Universities Space Research Association, Columbia,
Maryland
Donald Johnson - Implementing an Electronic Peer-reviewed
Journal of Earth System Science Education Resources
(JESSE): A Pathfinder for SMETE Resource Peer Review
- Amount: $249,861
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