NDLI: The Digital Water Library Project (DWEL): a NSDL K-12 collection

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Moore, J.D. Aivazian, B.
Copyright Year	2002
Description	Author affiliation: Burlington County Inst. of Technol., Medford, NJ, USA (Moore, J.D.)
Abstract	DWEL is the first major collection building effort to bring high quality, K-12 resources into the Digital Library for Earth Systems Education (DLESE). Efforts are currently underway to provide teachers, students and informal educators with easy, searchable access to over 500 exemplary digital resources related to the science, policy and economics of water by the end of 2003. A discovery tool will allow users to search the library catalogue by content area, grade level, resource type and the national science standards to obtain the resources they desire. The selection of these exemplary resources, which best support teaching along core science concepts, is being conducted by experienced, practicing K-12 teachers who best know the needs of their peers and their students. There are millions of digital science and education resources on the Internet. A few of these resources are excellent, many more are at best average, and some are simply terrible. For K-12 educators, students, and parents with little time and diverse needs, finding the high quality resources they need, when they need them is often a difficult and daunting task. As National SMETE Digital Library (NSDL) efforts evolve, there is an urgent need to build a prototype collection of digital resources that complement existing collection efforts, but focus specifically on the needs of K-12 users.
Sponsorship	IEEE IEEE Geosci. & Remote Sensing Soc. Canadian Remote Sensing Soc. Univ. Waterloo Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Environ. Canada NASA Nat. Oceanic & Atmos. Adm. (NOAA) Office of Naval Res.(ONR) Nat. Space Dev. Agency of Japan (NASDA) Nat. Polar-orbiting Environ. Satellite Syst. (NPOESS)
Starting Page	533
Ending Page	535
File Size	465415
Page Count	3
File Format	PDF
ISBN	078037536X
DOI	10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1025097
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2002-06-24
Publisher Place	Canada
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Software libraries Water resources Geography Earth Environmental economics Educational technology Databases Education Internet Prototypes
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in