NSDL Annual Meeting 2003

Sharing Your Stories: Sustaining Collaborations

• Swiki Overview - working with the NSDL Annual Meeting Swiki
• Program - PDF
• Attendee List
• Project List
• Poster Abstracts Information & Poster Room Map
• NSDL Annual Meeting Picture Gallery

Tuesday & Wednesday Sessions

General Sessions

• NSDL Update
• NSDL Summary

Birds of a Feather

BoaF Overview

• Scientific Markup Languages
• K-12 Issues in the NSDL
• Best Evaluation Practices for the Overworked and Understaffed
• Contextual Information Provided by Annotation Frameworks and Services
• Building the NSDL Community: Organization Structure and Decision Process
• Systemic Integration of Participant Roles and Educational Activities

Building Collections

Building Collections Overview

• Evaluating the Content of Your Collection
• Implementation of Metadata Standards by Different NSDL-funded Collections
• Innovative Metadata Development and Implementation
• Introduction to Metadata
• Managing the Content of Your Collection: Content Development, Cataloging, and Archiving

Deployment & Continuity

Deployment and Continuity Overview

• Building Community in Digital Libraries: User Involvement
• Collaborative Projects in NSDL: Institutionalized Collaboration
• Ad Hoc Collaboration
• Intellectual Property Rights and Digital Rights Management
• Providing and Using Scientific Data Through NSDL
• Spreading the Word: Outreach and Dissemination Strategies
• Sustainability I: The Projects
• Sustainability II: NSDL

Service Development

Services Development Overview

• Information Retrieval: From Databases to Search Engines
• NSDL and the Open Archives Initiative
• NSDL Services Interoperability and Web Services
• Registration and User Profiles

User-Centered Design

UCD Overview

• Designing for Re-Use and Accessibility
• DL Requirements: Evaluating System Design and Use
• Evaluating Digital Libraries on Many Levels: Library Use, User Needs, Accessibility Issues and Educational Impact
• Techniques for Formative Evaluation

Committees

Committees Overview

• Community Services
• Content
• Educational Impact & Evaluation
• Sustainability
• Technology

Sunday & Monday Sessions

Sunday Sessions

• New Projects Luncheon
• Orientation
• Posters

Monday Sessions

Monday Overview

• Opening Keynote - Gregory Crane
  Waiting for the Gettysburg Address or
  A Phase Shift in Teaching, Learning, and Research?
• Digital Libraries and the Intellectual and Economic Universe
• Technology, Scalability, Metadata (or Not): Research Challenges for Digital Libraries
• Content and Context: Digital Libraries and Education
• Implications of Today's Conversations for NSDL: A Summary