Develop infrastructure for supporting contextualization of Webbased Digital Libraries materials for

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Project Goals
The Texas AM University System
http//www.csdl.tamu.edu/walden/
Richard Furuta
Frank Shipman
furuta_at_csdl.tamu.edu
shipman_at_csdl.tamu.edu

• Provide a guided exploratory environment for
  learning

Support navigation, both within and outside of
the path framework
Provide tools to share and link to paths created
by others
Organize the use of Web-based resources to meet
curricular goals with paths
Develop infrastructure for supporting
contextualization of Web-based Digital Libraries
materials for use in education
Path Manager
Path Server
Authoring paths
Current Directions
Path Engine
Develop tools for managing collections over
digital library materials
Refine infrastructure to respond to the
communitys experiences
Investigate and validate paths
Disseminate tools for broader use by the
community
Community building
Tool to support browsing of interconnected paths
Tools that support the creation, editing and
publication of paths
Manage the unpredictable changes in referenced
Web pages that paths and other meta-documents
must face
Observe path use in undergraduate educational
environments
Explore issues related to authorship and path
reuse raised by complex path networks
Allow authors to create annotations to place
disparate elements into a common context
Aid managers of collections by differentiating
important from unimportant changes
PathCreator Web-based tool for online authoring
of paths
Investigate path segment sharing and reuse
Create advanced heuristics based on the analysis
of how humans perceive changes
PathAuthor Network-independent tool to create
paths off-line
Integrate quizzes and feedback mechanisms
Content-based approaches
Context-based approaches
Provide visual indication of degree of change to
Web page content
Employ structural cues from the path to evaluate
possible page replacements
Support multilingual paths
Accommodate missing Web pages by locating similar
or exact replacements
Measure the relevance of changes in page content
within the context of the path