NSDL All Projects Meeting October, 2003 ComPADRE: Communities for Physics and Astronomy Digital Resource in Education American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) American Astronomical Society (AAS) American Physical Society (APS) Society of Physics Students/American Institute of Physics (SPS)

NSDL All Projects Meeting October, 2003 A Little History…  July 1997 – Physical Sciences Resource Center (PSRC) launched by the AAPT  June 2001 – PSRC working group suggested changes to the site  December 2001 – Survey of AAPT members about their needs for educational resources  January 2002 – Society Representatives meet to discuss a digital library effort  October 2002 – NSF Funding for ComPADRE

NSDL All Projects Meeting October, 2003 Multiple focused collections –Meet needs of specific groups –Encourage user engagement Common infrastructure –Sharing of resources, expertise –Quicker collection development Community Involvement –Existing groups within societies –Engage with core initiatives Project Structure:

NSDL All Projects Meeting October, 2003 OJPSMERLOTNSDL Link Libraries & Archives Physical Sciences Res. Cent. Astro 101 Pre-College Inform. Ed.StudentsQuantumPERPIRA Collections Teachers, Learners Researchers, Developers Communities & Users WWW

NSDL All Projects Meeting October, 2003 Community Connections (Who) Collection Editors who are active in the communities supported Collection Editorial Groups of experts to advise and recommend Project Advisory Panel to provide directions and connections Project PI’s part of societies to promote the library and make connections

NSDL All Projects Meeting October, 2003 Project Outreach Efforts (What) Participation at Meetings – –Tutorials and Workshops on DL’s –Invited sessions on DL’s –User testing by participants Work with Committees – –Presentations to committees –Recruitment of Editorial Boards –Solicitation of comments –Partnership with Technology Committee Work with Governance Groups –Regular presentations to governing boards –Partnership on Societies’ efforts

NSDL All Projects Meeting October, 2003 Collection Successes More than 100 responses to initial RFC All Collections have recruited high-profile editorial board members Pre-College is involved with web delivery of resource guide for new physics teachers Pre-College is working with PTRA Student has active sub-committees of the National SPS council Student launched with a contest for a ComPADRE/Student Logo Student survey of Research Experiences received more than 100 responses from Friday to Sunday

NSDL All Projects Meeting October, 2003 Collection Successes (cont’d.) Informal Education is working with the APS Committee on Education Quantum recruited members of AAPT 2YC, Undergrad, and Grad committees Working with Open Source Physics and Physlet projects on meta-tagging Tutorial at Summer AAPT meeting had 20 participants, positive responses Invited Session at Summer AAPT meeting had more than 100 attendees Interest in future workshops is high

NSDL All Projects Meeting October, 2003 Future Efforts Engage users in participation in the library, through usage, contributions, comments, and review Grow the library by serving new communities Assess the library collections through usability tests, surveys, and open forums Assess the library collection impact through usage studies following individual users

NSDL All Projects Meeting October, 2003 Acknowledgements: Editors: –David Donnelly –Cathy Ezrailson –Marc Gagne –Edward Lee –Jessica Clark Co-PI’s: –Susana Deustua –Jack Hehn –Warren Hein –Fred Stein Advisory Board: –Lisa Grable –Beth Hufnagel –Gregor Novak –Stephen Pompea –Anton Skorucak Technical Staff: –Thad Lurie –Lyle Barbato Funding: –NSF: –Society Support

NSDL All Projects Meeting October, 2003 Suggestions from PSRC group: A set of metadata should be developed for the materials already included in the PSRC and any new materials that are added. The PSRC needs a site map that will help users find the materials and assist in the orderly development of the site. A consistent set of templates and fonts that would improve the appearance and functionality of the site. A procedure for collecting, peer reviewing, and cataloguing materials on the site. Tools should be put in place that would make it easy to find and access information on the site.

NSDL All Projects Meeting October, 2003 Comments from Membership: … focused resources in areas that are widely taught … provide real value added to the curriculum … … the best digital libraries to be those that tightly focus the content … … two large issues … archiving, … developer-community building. … many sharing materials … of value to …The Physics Instructional Resource Association … a repository for the curricula materials resulting from NSF or FIPSE or other projects … … information on physics and astronomy education research … "ready- to-use" assessment … … "standard" schema exist for tagging content … in accord with other large projects … … the repository is more efficient, effective, and perhaps more permanent … … use this vehicle to start an on-line PER journal? … "nonstandard" topics … the material is not readily available … … web-encode and license AAPT assets for use nationwide by physics teachers … other AAPT resources (publications … no longer in print) that could also be digitized … … extensive "Brand new physics teacher kit online”… made available …

NSDL All Projects Meeting October, 2003 Metadata D Information Structure: –Topic –Resource Type –User Type and Grade Level Standards Based Architecture –IMS/IEEE Standards –XML based structure –Shared with other DL’s PIRA DCS Scheme (talk w/ PACS)

NSDL All Projects Meeting October, Search Advanced Search Browse Topic Browse Resource Browse Level User Participation Submit Items Submit Comments Personal File

NSDL All Projects Meeting October, 2003 In Development --- Collection Organization Editorial Workflow Editorial Review Relations between materials Editor’s Comments (Background, Pedagogy, Application)

NSDL All Projects Meeting October, 2003 Future steps: Load, process, and go live with collections (Student, Pre-College, Public, Astronomy) Stimulate community participation Involve other communities and projects in the NSDL –PER –JiTT –FLAG

NSDL All Projects Meeting October, 2003 Collaboration of the AAPT, APS, AIP, SPS, and AAS –Build prototype collections that engage specific communities. –Create processes for community participation in the collections. –Use existing expertise to add value to existing resources. –Support and expand the National Digital Library infrastructure.