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<h2 id="activities">Activities</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.learningregistry.org/">Learning Registry</a>: The NSDL is a partner in the national Learning Registry project to facilitate the exchange of resources, metadata about resources, and <a href="/facts/Paradata_(Learning_Resource_Analytics)/kdX6Wkyt">paradata</a> about their use in learning environments. NSDL is contributing to this multi-agency federal project designed to make learning resources produced by federal funding more accessible.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li> <li><a href="https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/nsdldocs/STEM+Exchange+and+paradata+concepts">NSDL STEM Exchange</a>: concept for a web service to capture and share social media-generated information and other networked associations about educational resources (tagged, recommended, commented, discussed, clicked, viewed, downloaded, favorited, shared, etc.)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li> <li><a href="https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/nsdldocs/LAR+Concepts">Learning Application Readiness</a> - an NSDL initiative that refers to how closely educational resources, collections, and their related metadata are aligned to educational goals, curriculum, or professional development needs of users, and how readily those can be embedded in tools and services that teachers and students use.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li> <li><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1144560&HistoricalAwards=false"><i>Repositioning NSDL for the Next Generation of Digital Learning</i></a> - An NSDL NSF-funded project building on and leveraging the lessons of prior work (NSDL <a href="http://nsdl.org/partners">network partners collaborations</a>;<a href="https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/nsdldocs/STEM+Exchange+and+paradata+concepts">[1]</a>; <a href="https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/nsdldocs/Learning+Registry">Learning Registry</a> collaboration; <a href="https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/nsdldocs/LAR+Concepts">[2]</a>; <a href="http://nsdl.org/commcore/math/">Common Core Mathematics collection</a>) to bring pilot level projects to scale and to integrate new STEM education services into NSDL. These efforts contribute to NSDL's sustainability through diffusion and adoption of resources into a wider range of instructional settings and teacher peer-to-peer networks.</li></ul> <h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) was established in 2000 by the <a href="http://nsf.gov">National Science Foundation</a> (NSF) to provide an organized point of access to STEM content aggregated from a variety of other digital libraries, NSF-funded projects, and other national STEM stakeholder providers. Key collaborations with <a href="http://nsdl.org/partners">disciplinary communities and audience-focused providers</a> grew out of the NSDL, providing a social and technical infrastructure for collaboration in the delivery and use of digital resources in STEM education <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> .<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> NSDL also provides access to services and tools that enhance the use of this content in a variety of contexts.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> NSDL is designed primarily for K-16 educators, but anyone can access NSDL.org and search the library at no cost, and without creating a user account, although some content providers require a nominal fee or subscription to retrieve their specific resources. </p><p>From 2000 – 2011, the National Science Foundation sponsored an NSDL grant-making program in the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) of the Education and Human Resources Directorate. The <a href="http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5487&org=DUE&from=home">National STEM Distributed Learning (NSDL) program</a> offered grants to support major collection-building efforts, services development, and targeted research that built and extended library services. In February 2011, the NSF ended the NSDL grant-making program in DUE, and did not issue an NSDL program solicitation for FY2011.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p><p>Originally a collaboration between <a href="http://www.cornell.edu/">Cornell University</a>, <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/">Columbia University</a>, and the <a href="http://www2.ucar.edu/">University Corporation for Atmospheric Research</a> (UCAR), the NSDL became entirely hosted at UCAR, in Boulder, Colorado. In 2014, the NSDL was transferred to the <a href="/facts/Institute_for_the_Study_of_Knowledge_Management_in_Education/ptK983X4">Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Analytical_Sciences_Digital_Library/hmDzEmfG">Analytical Sciences Digital Library</a></li></ul> <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2> <ul><li>Lagoze, C., D. B. Krafft, S. Payette, & S. Jesuroga (2005). <a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november05/lagoze/11lagoze.html">What is a digital library anymore, anyway?</a> D-Lib Magazine, 11(11).</li> <li>Mardis, M., & K. Howe (2010). <a href="http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/aaslpubsandjournals/knowledgequest/docs/KQ_NovDec10_WEB.pdf">STEM for Our Students: Content to Co-conspiracy?</a> [Co-editor's column]. Knowledge Quest, Journal of the American Association of School Librarians, 39(2), 82.</li> <li>Mervis, Jeffrey. NSF Rethinks Its Digital Library. Science 2 January 2009: Vol. 323. no. 5910, pp. 54–58. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.323.5910.54">10.1126/science.323.5910.54</a></li> <li>Multiple authors (2010). <a href="http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/aaslpubsandjournals/knowledgequest/docs/KQ_NovDec10_WEB.pdf">STEM for our Students. Knowledge Quest</a>, Journal of the American Association of School Librarians, 39(2), 82.</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://nsdl.oercommons.org/">National Science Digital Library</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.learningregistry.org/">Learning Registry</a></li> <li><a href="https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/nsdldocs/STEM+Exchange+and+paradata+concepts">STEM Exchange</a></li> <li><a href="https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/nsdldocs/LAR+Concepts">Learning Application Readiness</a></li> <li><a href="http://nsdl.org/commcore/math/">Common Core Mathematics collection</a></li> <li><a href="http://nsdl.org/partners">NSDL Network Partners</a></li> <li><a href="http://nsf.gov">National Science Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5487&org=DUE&from=home">National STEM Distributed Learning (NSDL) program</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Van Gundy, S. (2011). Why Connected Online Communities Will Drive the Future of Digital Content: An Introduction to Learning Resource Paradata. Connected Online Communities of Practice (COCP) Archived 2011-11-19 at the Wayback Machine. <a href="http://connectededucators.org/blog/why-connected-online-communities-will-drive-the-future-of-digital-content-an-introduction-to-learning-resource-paradata/" target="_blank">http://connectededucators.org/blog/why-connected-online-communities-will-drive-the-future-of-digital-content-an-introduction-to-learning-resource-paradata/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Van Gundy, S. (2010). The STEM Exchange: Enabling next generation approaches for community access to federally funded online materials. Concept Paper. Boulder, Colorado: National STEM Education Digital Library. 4. <a href="https://wiki.ucar.edu/pages/worddav/preview.action?fileName=STEM+Exchange_NSDL+Exec+Summary_0.pdf&pageId=236520324" target="_blank">https://wiki.ucar.edu/pages/worddav/preview.action?fileName=STEM+Exchange_NSDL+Exec+Summary_0.pdf&pageId=236520324</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Ginger, K., & L. Goger (2011). Evaluating the National Science Digital Library for Learning Application Readiness. Paper presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Bridging the Gulf: Communication and Information in Society, Technology, and Work. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Zia, L. L. (2001). Growing a national learning environments and resources network for science, mathematics, engineering, and technology education. D-Lib Magazine, 7(3). <a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march01/zia/03zia.html" target="_blank">http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march01/zia/03zia.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Zia, L. L. (2001). The NSF National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) program: New projects and a progress report. D-Lib Magazine, 7(11). <a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november01/zia/11zia.html" target="_blank">http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november01/zia/11zia.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"Home - NSDL Documentation Wiki - wiki.ucar.edu". <a href="https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/nsdldocs/Home" target="_blank">https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/nsdldocs/Home</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"National STEM Education Distributed Learning (NSDL)". <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5487&org=DUE&from=home" target="_blank">https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5487&org=DUE&from=home</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"ISKME to manage National Science Digital Library | NCAR & UCAR News". <a href="https://news.ucar.edu/13512/iskme-manage-national-science-digital-library" target="_blank">https://news.ucar.edu/13512/iskme-manage-national-science-digital-library</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>