Lynne Davis

Linking learning goals and educational resources through interactive concept map visualizations

Concept browsing interfaces can help educators and learners to locate and use learning resources that are aligned with recognized learning goals. The Strand Map Service enables users to navigate interactive visualizations of related learning goals and to request digital library resources aligned with learning goals. These interfaces are created using a programmatic Web service interface that dynamically generates interactive visual components. Preliminary findings suggest that these library interfaces appear to help users stay focused on the scientific content of their information discovery task, as opposed to focusing on the mechanics of searching.

Collaborative design with use case scenarios

Digital libraries, particularly those with a community-based governanc e structure, are best designed in a collaborative setting. In this paper, we compare our experience using two design methods: a Task-centered method that draws upon a groups strength for eliciting and formulating tasks, and a Use Case method that tends to require a focus on defining an explicit process for tasks. We discuss how these methods did and did not work well in a collaborative setting.

Research Center Insights into Data Curation Education and Curriculum

The need for the data curator role is being recognized in new institutional settings as research funding agencies internationally extend data archiving mandates to cover more types of research grants. This paper identifies categories of skills required for data curator from the perspective of data professionals within an atmospheric and Earth system science research center. We illustrate how the data curation tasks performed within a research center environment range across a spectrum of required skills. We use this spectrum to discuss implications for data curation education more broadly.

Teaching boxes and web services: optimizing the digital library for earth system education for the classroom

A recent pilot program pioneered the development of Teaching Boxes by the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) with the Univ. of CA. Berkeley Museum of Paleontology, SF State Univ., USGS, and seven San Francisco area middle/high school teachers. This paper shares the current DLESE Teaching Box effort, explains the pilot program, and highlights the use of web services to create a context within which teachers can find, immediately use, or adapt relevant teaching and learning resources

A comparison of two educational resource discovery systems

We describe the results from a pilot study that compared two different discovery systems designed and built to operate in the same educational digital library - one based on searching over metadata records and another hybrid system which combined metadata and content-based indexing.

Repurposing data across disciplines: a study of data reuse issues between climate science and social science

Repurposing of data raises a number of issues for use across the disciplines of climate science and social science. The issues we present are results of the work we are currently carrying out as part of the Data Conservancy Project1 which aims to preserve data for long-term known and unanticipated use over time, across disciplines and over a variety of spatial, temporal and organizational scales.

How science web sites are leveraging DLESE search web services to extend value to their users

This demonstration illustrates the use of two search services offered by the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) and shows how they have been used to create customized discovery interfaces for library resources in science Web sites