Developing a mission for the national education network: The challenge of seamless access

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 169-181

  Lankes, R David ^a   Sutton, Stuart A ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0033474260     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0740-624x(99)80006-9     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. White House Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies (April 18, 1997) (http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/New/NetDay/memorandum.html).
2. The first meeting of the NEN was under the name USEIN (United States Educational Information Network). The name was subsequently changed to the National Education Network (NEN).
3. "Metadata is data which describes attributes of a resource. Typically, it supports a number of functions: location, discovery, documentation, evaluation, selection and others. These activities may be carried out by human end-users or their (human or automated) agents. A more formal definition is: 'metadata is data associated with objects which relieves their potential users of having to have full advance knowledge of their existence or characteristics.'" Lorcan Dempsey & Rachel Heery, A Review of Metadata: A Survey of Current Resource Description Formats (1998) (http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/desire/overview/rev_ti.htm).
4. See Mark Stefik, "Letting loose the light: Igniting commerce in electronic publication," in Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors, edited by Mark Stefik (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996), pp. 219-253.
5. See Carol A. Twigg, The NLII Vision: Implications for Systems and States [Online]. Available: http://www.educause.edu/nlii/keydocs/publicpolicy.html, 1997; see also, Twigg, "The changing definition of learning," Educom Review, 29(4) (1994): 23-25; Twigg, "The need for a national learning infrastructure," Educom Review, 29(5) (1994): 17-20; Twigg, "Navigating the transition," Educom Review 29(6) (1994): 21-24; Twigg, Academic Productivity: The Case for Instructional Software (1996) (http://www.educause.edu/nlii/keydocs/broadmoor.html).
6. See Carol A. Twigg, The NLII Vision: Implications for Systems and States [Online]. Available: http://www.educause.edu/nlii/keydocs/publicpolicy.html, 1997; see also, Twigg, "The changing definition of learning," Educom Review, 29(4) (1994): 23-25; Twigg, "The need for a national learning infrastructure," Educom Review, 29(5) (1994): 17-20; Twigg, "Navigating the transition," Educom Review 29(6) (1994): 21-24; Twigg, Academic Productivity: The Case for Instructional Software (1996) (http://www.educause.edu/nlii/keydocs/broadmoor.html).
7. See Carol A. Twigg, The NLII Vision: Implications for Systems and States [Online]. Available: http://www.educause.edu/nlii/keydocs/publicpolicy.html, 1997; see also, Twigg, "The changing definition of learning," Educom Review, 29(4) (1994): 23-25; Twigg, "The need for a national learning infrastructure," Educom Review, 29(5) (1994): 17-20; Twigg, "Navigating the transition," Educom Review 29(6) (1994): 21-24; Twigg, Academic Productivity: The Case for Instructional Software (1996) (http://www.educause.edu/nlii/keydocs/broadmoor.html).
8. See Carol A. Twigg, The NLII Vision: Implications for Systems and States [Online]. Available: http://www.educause.edu/nlii/keydocs/publicpolicy.html, 1997; see also, Twigg, "The changing definition of learning," Educom Review, 29(4) (1994): 23-25; Twigg, "The need for a national learning infrastructure," Educom Review, 29(5) (1994): 17-20; Twigg, "Navigating the transition," Educom Review 29(6) (1994): 21-24; Twigg, Academic Productivity: The Case for Instructional Software (1996) (http://www.educause.edu/nlii/keydocs/broadmoor.html).
9. See Carol A. Twigg, The NLII Vision: Implications for Systems and States [Online]. Available: http://www.educause.edu/nlii/keydocs/publicpolicy.html, 1997; see also, Twigg, "The changing definition of learning," Educom Review, 29(4) (1994): 23-25; Twigg, "The need for a national learning infrastructure," Educom Review, 29(5) (1994): 17-20; Twigg, "Navigating the transition," Educom Review 29(6) (1994): 21-24; Twigg, Academic Productivity: The Case for Instructional Software (1996) (http://www.educause.edu/nlii/keydocs/broadmoor.html).
10. The term "primary" is used here to denote that the object contains information that the end user wishes to retrieve and use. Thus, a digital repository of primary materials can be contrasted with a digital repository of secondary materials such as metadata.
11. Robert Kahn & Robert Wilensky, A Framework for Distributed Digital Object Services (1995) (http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/home/cstr/arch/k-w.html).
12. "A highly reliable distributed system of handle servers is maintained as part of the infrastructure. These servers map handles to network resources at which the corresponding digital objects are available." Ibid. See also the Corporation for National Research Initiatives' "handle" system (http://www.handle.net/).
13. Kahn & Wilensky, A Framework for Distributed Digital Object Services.
14. Stefik, "Letting Loose the Light."
15. The use of the term "repository" in this case is different from the pure form described earlier in the body of this text. Many of the repositories pointed to through GEM metadata also perform organizing functions of their own, and therefore are both repositories of digital objects and organizers of their own digital objects.
16. AskA Services are human-intermediated reference services that serve the K-12 community such as "Ask-A-Volcanologist" and "Ask-A-Space Scientist."
17. WWW-based tools developed by the GEM project are available from the GEM Developers Workbench at http://geminfo.org/Workbench/.
18. Cross-Site Indexing Project search engine is available at http://search.ed.gov/csi/.
19. While AskERIC does have a WWW site with a large collection of materials, this example considers only the e-mail based question/answering service.
20. Metadata Working Group: Document Register (http://www.metadata.aihw.gov.au/document/brisres.html).
21. White House, Vice President Gore Praises Union Efforts to Connect 700 of the Nation's Poorest Schools to the Internet (April 28, 1998) (http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1998/ 4/28/16.text.1).
22. Carol Twigg & Michael Miloff, "The global learning infrastructure: the future of higher education," Chapter. 9, in Blueprint to the Digital Economy: Creating Wealth in the Era of E-Business, edited by Don Tapscott (New York: McGraw Hill, 1998), p. 195.