Date: Wednesday, October 11;   4:15 - 5:15p

Location: 301 College Ave , Seminar Room

Note: 3:45 - 4:15p will be our social gathering with refreshments – in the Snap Lab at 301 College Ave.

Abstract:

The NSF-sponsored National Science Digital Library project at Cornell has recently created the NSDL Data Repository (NDR) to serve as the premier source for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education on the net. This repository is the foundation for creating an ecosystem of collaborative, contributory tools that fully integrate with the library, creating a social space in which communities of students, teachers, scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and librarians can interact with and build on a library of carefully selected science resources.

The presentation falls naturally into three parts. In the first part, Dean will give a brief overview of the NSDL project and the first version of the library, NSDL 1.0, describing the limitations that led the NSDL group to design and build the NDR and NSDL 2.0. He will then describe the architecture of the NDR, outlining its capabilities and briefly describing the basic services and highlighting some of the technical research challenges posed by the library design. In the second part, he will present some of the initial collaborative tools that NSDL is building to take advantage of the capabilities of the NDR. Finally, in the last part, he will present some of the IS challenges inherent in creating a virtual social space (or set of spaces) that fully integrates with a trusted digital library of science resources.

Bio:

Dean Krafft serves as a researcher and an administrator in the Computer Science Department at Cornell. As an administrator, he is the Director of Information Technology for Computing and Information Science, providing oversight for the Computer Facilities Support group, representing CIS to the campus-wide IT Managers Council, and focusing on a number of issues including IT policy, software acquisition, and computer security. On the research side, he is the Principal Investigator for the NSF-funded National Science Digital Library Project at Cornell. He leads the effort to develop key components of the Core Integration Technology for the library, and manages the team that maintains the production library services. Dean also works with the other institutions involved in the Core Integration effort to specify, develop, and provide new digital library technologies to the over one hundred NSF-funded projects involved in the NSDL program.

His own research interests focus on ensuring the availability in the digital world of pre-digital published and manuscript materials, as well as related issues on copyright, the public domain, and public access to older and out-of-print materials.

If you would like to meet with Dean, or for more information, please contact Claire Cardie.

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