NSDL Annual Meeting 2006 Session Recordings

Welcoming Remarks, Core Integration and Policy Committee Updates, and Town Hall meeting with Dan Atkins, Director of the NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure.

Join moderator Kate Wittenberg, PI on the National Science Digital Library Core Integration Project and director of EPIC, the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia, as she moderates a panel discussion based on her article published in the Chronicle of Higher Education entitled "Beyond Google: What's Next for Higher Education?" Panelists will explore how we might reimagine digital spaces for scholarship given that most ten to twenty-somethings have jumped the fences of traditional learning and are engaged in creating personalized online environments that may consist of simultaneous collaborative game-playing, downloading music and videos, monitoring people and places on GPS-equipped phones with ring tones that adults can't hear, looking stuff up, polishing MySpace sites, chatting, shopping, and doing homework.

Continuing our efforts in using web metrics to assess NSDLs impact, we turn our attention to their role under "Leveraging Project and Community Accomplishments." To this end, we have been investigating a variety of metrics that can be compiled for different projects, either through a common logging and reporting service (in this case Omnitures SiteCatalyst) or through customized metrics -- such as those obtained through correlations between what we know from user registration and demographic information from a variety of sources (e.g., the U.S. Census, Dept. of Education, etc.). In this session, we will offer the results of work done to date in order to help other projects create customized metrics that measure their impact on the K-12 community; to help them integrate that data collection into SiteCatalyst, and to share experiences inorder to "keep the ball rolling". In addition we intend to solicit suggestions and recommendations from session participants for additional metrics to consider adopting, sources of information that can provide better connections between logged project web statistics and demographic information, and other project accomplishments we might incorporate into future analysis and research.

Laura Campbell is the Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives responsible for the overall strategic planning for the Library of Congress, which includes development of a national strategy, in cooperation with other institutions, for the collection, access and preservation of digital materials. This plan is known as the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIP).

Chris Greer is Program Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation, where he is responsible for digital data activities. Dr. Greer recently served as Executive Secretary for the Long-lived Digital Data Collections Activities of the National Science Board and is currently Co-Chair of the Interagency Working Group on Digital Data.

Kevin Guthrie is the president of Ithaka, a not-for-profit organization with a mission to accelerate the productive uses of information technologies for the benefit of higher education around the world. In pursuit of this aim, Ithaka incubates a small number of new initiatives internally and provides various forms of support to affiliated organizations. Kevin is the former president and current chairman of JSTOR and serves as a trustee for
ARTstor.