Building educational portals atop digital libraries

D-Lib Magazine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Fox, Sean ^a   Manduca, Cathy ^a   Iverson, Ellen ^a  

^a CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 14744294090     PISSN: 10829873     EISSN: 10829873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1045/january2005-fox     Document Type: Review

References (24)

1. National Science Digital Library program solicitation, 〈http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04542/nsf04542.htm〉.
2. Blackboard press release describing Merlot partnership, 〈http://www.blackboard.com/about/press/prview.htm?id=608612〉.
3. Flecker, Dale, Neil McLean, "Digital Library Content and Course Management Systems: Issues of Interoperation" July 2004. Available: 〈http://purl.oclc.org/dlf/cmsd10470〉.
4. On the Cutting Edge home page, 〈http://serc.carleton.edu/ NAGTWorkshops/〉.
5. Starting Point home page, 〈http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/〉.
6. CMS is a terribly overburdened acronym within the educational technology community-even getting beyond the ambiguity over whether the 'C' stands for 'Content' or 'Course'. We beg the reader's indulgence in our use of the acronym as it has become standard parlance within our office, and retrofitting a new name at this point seemed artificial.
7. The term "web standards" in this case refers largely to adherence to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards, (http://www.w3.org/) , as promoted by the Web Standards Project (http://www.webstandards.org/). Adherence to these standards is intimately tied to creating sites that are as broadly accessible as possible. See, for example, AccessNSDL (http://accessnsdl.org/) for accessibility information related specifically to digital libraries.
8. The World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web activity site, 〈http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/〉.
9. Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, 〈http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openrachievesprotocol.html〉.
10. National Science Digital Library home page, 〈http://nsdl.org/〉.
11. ADN metadata framework, 〈http://www.dlese.org/Metadata/adn-item/ index.htm〉.
12. DLESE Cataloging System, 〈http://www.dlese.org/Metadata/tool/index. html〉.
13. NSDL metadata requirements are described in the NSDL metadata primer, 〈http://metamanagement.comm.nsdlib.org/contributing.html〉, and specifically in the xml schema NSDL provides, 〈http://ns.nsdl.org/schemas/ nsdl_dc/nsdl_dc_v1.02.xsd〉.
14. In November 2004, 13% of visitors arrived at our sites through a catalog record page.
15. DLESE community review system, 〈http://crs.dlese.org/〉.
16. Moore, R., "Preservation Environments," NASA/IEEE MSST2004, Twelfth NASA Goddard/Twenty-First IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, April 2004.
17. For one example, see 〈http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/ visualize04/recommend.html〉
18. An example form through which community members can submit teaching activities can be seen at 〈http://serc.carleton.edu/1621〉.
19. An example search/browse interface across a teaching activity collection can be seen at 〈http://serc.carleton.edu/3717〉.
20. The Flamenco Search Interface Project home page, 〈http://bailando. sims.berkely.edu/flamenco.html〉.
21. The Gateway to Education Materials (http://www.thegateway.org) makes use of a similar faceted search interface.
22. Jakarta Lucene text search engine library, 〈http://jakarta.apache. org/lucene/docs/index.html〉.
23. The Porter stemming algorithm, 〈http://www.tartarus.org/~martin/ PorterStemmer/〉.
24. Hearst, Marti, Jennifer English, Rashmi Sinha, Kirsten Swearingen, and Ping Yee, "Finding the Flow in Web Site Search," Communications of the ACM, 45 (9), September 2002, pp.42-49.