Title: Digital Libraries: Case
1Digital Libraries Case
- Dr. Janet K. Poley
- President/CEO
- ADEChttp//www.adec.edu
2The U.S. Case Libraries and Collaboratories
- Electronic Access to Library Catalogs
- Academic, Scientific, just-in-time Learning
Modules - Museum Collections
- Communities of Interest - Shared Resources
- Live Data from Remote Locations
3Communities of Place
- Sharing Local News and Information
- Ethnic Communities - New Linkages
- Preserving Indigenous Knowledge and Materials
- Distributed Data
- Blurring Among Research/Education/Outreach/Librari
es
4Importance of User Studies
- Cant Make Assumptions
- Experiment with New Forms and Tools
- Fast Proto-Typing
- Personalization
- Need for Widely Accepted Systems
- U.S. Involvement Library Community and
Internet2, Higher Education, NSF, DOE, NLII,
5Access to Libraries and Networks
- Political Issue
- Economic Issue
- Geographic Issue
- Technological Issue
- From Pre-School - Lifelong Learning
6Collaboratories
- Integrating research and development activities
and tools - Greater use of remote scientific facilities
- Collaborative problem solving, shared
visualization, virtual reality techniques and
environments - Design from user back
7Tools and Standards
- Collaboration between higher education, industry
and government - Human factors research
- International collaboratories - like libraries -
expand the idea space - Toward dumb networks and smart edges
8AdvancedInternet Satellite Extension Project
9Digital Inclusion
10Concentration of PovertyDeconcentration of
Opportunity
- Inner cities and isolated rural areas
- Lack of infrastructure in poor neighborhoods
- Lack of investment leads to fewer economic
opportunities
11Concentration of PovertyDeconcentration of
Opportunity
- Relevant content
- Social, cultural and professional activities
online
12The Engaged University
- Outreach Extension Important
- Meeting Lifelong Learning Needs
- Development of Skilled Workforce
- New Partnerships/Relationships with Private
Sector - Knowledge Networks -Economic Engine
13Broadband Access to All
- Rural and Remote Areas
- Learning Centers
- Historically Black Colleges Universities
- Tribal Colleges
- Reaching Out to Overcome Distance
14Technology Access Necessary - Not Sufficient
- Applications
- Learning Modules/Objects
- Digital Libraries
- Asynchronous/Synchronous Communication
- Simulations
- Virtual Reality
- Teleimmersion
15New Teaching and Learning Models
- Four generations
- Correspondence study
- Multi-media with print
- Online learning
- Internet2 applications
16New Research Models Beyond Comparative Studies
- No significant difference
- Instructional design and operational environment
- Media attribute theory
17Attribute Analysis (Smith Dillion 1999)
18Blurring Research/Education
- Collaboratories/Collaborative Worktools
- Grand/Global Experiments
- Participatory Research
- Modeling
- Instruments
- New Creative Conceptualizations
19Advanced Internet Satellite Extension Project
- 3 year, NSF
- 4 million
- Partnership
- ADEC, Internet 2 Universities, smaller and
minority serving institutions, rural and remote
learners - Tachyon.Network
- CAIDA, NLANR
20Project Goals
- Explore and Evaluate
- satellite technology to deliver Internet to
underserved audiences and - deployment and integration of distance education
applications.
21Research objectives include
- pretty good Internet?
- requirements for satellite-based IP network
- QOS issues per last mile
- network performance measurements
- teaching and learning applications
- business model
22Tachyon.net
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24Institutions
- North Carolina State/AT Universities
- University of Maryland
- University of Illinois
- University of Nebraska
- University of California
- Washington State University
25References
- ADEC/Tachyon Test Server
- http//63.103.96.228/
- Tachyon General Testing User Log
- http//63.103.96.228/test
- Main Street Economist - Center for the Study of
Rural America FRB of Kansas City - http//kc.frb.org/RuralCenter/mainstreet/MainStMai
n.htm - Business 2.0 Milking the Netfor all its worth
- http//www.business2.com/content/channels/technolo
gy/2000/06/13/12863