Cataloging Consistency and Updates DWEL Team Meetings January 2003 Holly Devaul

Description Re- work chapter headings and topical lists to complete sentences, correct capitalization Use keywords for additional terms If the resource is designed for the general public but is useful for teaching specific concepts or in specific settings, include this information in description.

Description Avoid including detailed information that occurs in other fields such as Resource creator, Subject, Technical information and Resource type

Description – what would you edit here? This site contains graphs, tables, and charts for the following ground water topics: What is groung water, Groundwater flow diagrams, Ground-water use, Importance of groundwater, Trends in ground-water use, Ground-water quality, Pesticides in ground water, Aquifers, Waterwells, What is a flowing(artesian) well?, Sinkholes, and Land subsidence. There are a variety of links within all of the above topics and a very complete glossary, as well as numerour charts, maps, photographs and illustrations.

Description – what would you edit here? This USGS site contains very useful text descriptions about many aspects of ground water. The major topics include Ground Water, How Ground Water Occurs, Quality of Ground Water, Appraising the Nation's Ground-Water Resources, and a Glossary. This is a non-technical site, designed for use by the general public. Several charts and diagrams are also included in this site. Audience High school Middle school Undergraduate lower division

Confusing Resource Types Portal - A portal is a collection of diverse resources that are produced entirely by or managed by the host organization. We also use this for home pages for organizations or projects. Clearinghouse - A clearinghouse is a collection of diverse resources that are produced by a variety of sources, but made accessible through a single site. The authorship and responsibility for the resources is not solely the host organization.

Confusing Resource Types Portal USGS The Learning Web Clearinghouse WaterWeb

Confusing Resource Types Tutorial A resource that provides *guided*, practical information about a specific subject. Reference A work containing useful facts or information (e.g. user's guides, technical manuals). A student might consult this during independent research. It does not have a guided component. It may comprise hyperlinked pages but a specific path through it is not designated.

Confusing Resource Types Tutorial The Hydrologic Cycle Reference Glaciers and Glaciation

Keywords Only one concept per field Do not capitalize unless a proper noun Use terms not present in the description or title

A few too many……… glacier budget, ice flow velocity, warm glaciers, cold, glaciers, region of shear, deformation firn, surging, sublimation, wastage, ablation, zone of accumulation striation, rock flour, shear plane Greenland, Antarctica alpine glacier, ice sheet, continental glacier, ice cap, valley glacier, piedmont glacier cirque, fjord, till, terminal moraine, lateral moraine, moraine, erratics, outwash, esker, drumlin interglacial, Milankovich cycles, earth orbit eccentricity, earth orbit obliquity

Redundant choices……. (and capitalized) Lakes Curriculum Data

Coverage – some new info Place and event data need to be in separate fields Precede each with proper identifier PLACE:South Florida EVENT:Hurricane Andrew ALL CAPS:no space Spell out all state names and United States

Coverage Place name should correspond to bounding box entered, should not contain a list of subregions E.g a box for the Southeastern United States should not list the states contained therein PLACE:Southeastern United States

Sources for Bounding Box Data Alexandria Gazetteer Getty Thesaurus Topozone

Technical If a significant portion of the resource requires additional software (such as Acrobat reader ) or a critical component requires it such that the resource is not functional without it, then choose Known and select the proper Type. If only a single document or lesser component requires this software, such that the resource could be used successfully without it, choose Other and then note: One lesson plan requires Acrobat reader for access, or whatever is applicable. This is admittedly a subjective rule of thumb.

Copyright If none can be found, use this phrase exactly: Copyright and Other Restrictions Information is Unknown No URL’s Not : see USGS homepage

Subject = Technology Select Technology as a subject only if the resource teaches about using technology to learn concepts, or requires the use of technology to implement the exercises, such as GIS software. If the resource only supplies GIS-produced maps, but does not have the learner use the software, then do not select Technology. YES Exploring Earthquakes…..through the Internet and GIS NO Live from the Estuary

DWEL Group affiliation Second creator tag set to allow search by group DWEL 9-12 DWEL Informal DWEL K-4 DWEL 5-8

Standards Learning materials should be a component of the resource, and image or dataset without activities is not eligible. Standards should be associated with discrete learning objects rather than compiled lists of a group of objects.