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Building the NSDL Community: Organization Structure and Decision Process

Room: Statler AB


Paul Berkman

Organizers: Paul Berkman, Howard Burrows and Flora McMartin

Proposed participants: Representatives from all NSDL projects and standing committees. Format: Birds of a Feather session

Objectives: To involve the entire NSDL community assembly along with the standing committees (including core integration and policy) and National Science Foundation in a discussion of organizational strategies that will foster broad community collaboration to sustain the development of the NSDL.

Description: A panel overview of the current structure of the NSDL along with its relationship to the NSDL vision, projects and outcomes will be presented. Results from the NSDL Annual PI survey also will be presented. It is anticipated that the discussions will involve the framework and vision of the NSDL along with a review of the processes and challenges to build a sustainable organization for the benefit of all.

Outcomes: Participants will strengthen their understanding of how the NSDL currently is structured to contribute to its sustainable development. Recommendations will be developed for milestones, timelines and strategies to implement a NSDL organizational structure that can be approved by the assembly.


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