What will it take for the whole of NSDL to add up to more than the sum of its parts in creating innovative access to cyberlearning opportunities for the nation’s students and teachers? It’s an interesting question that two parts of NSDL went to Washington to try and answer for representatives of the National Science […]

Carol Minton Morris, Ben O’Steen, and David Flanders In a call to “keep it real” the 1977 Doobie Brothers’ hit song “Takin it to the Streets” contains the words, “You, telling me the things you’re gonna do for me; I aint blind and I dont like what I think I see.” Developer Happiness Days (DEV8D) […]

Columbus, Ohio On Feb. 4-5, 2009 the MSP2 (Middle School Portal) Advisory Board met at at COSI. For a portal that is dedicated to making quality STEM resources widely available, and FUN for middle school instruction, the venue could not have been chosen better. COSI has thrilled nearly 19 million visitors with exhibits and hands-on […]

Ithaca, NY Workflows are a repeatable sequence of operations that achieve an outcome. A scientific workflow is unique among other types of workflows because it specifically represents a graphical model of data flow among processing steps. The Kepler Project provides an open source scientific workflow tool that allows users to author and execute scientific workflows.

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Baltimore, MD Is there anyone out there who has an in-box, spam filter, hard drive, or update feed that is not brimming with outdated, digital junk? And are you even sure about whether it’s junk or not? Like old string, your institution may have a particular reason for keeping a collection of regularly updated data. […]

Printed scholarly publications in the main reading room at the New York Public Library. © 2008 Carol Minton Morris
Baltimore, MD SPARC IR morning “Campus Publishing Strategies” sessions focused on making use of, and understanding the evolution of scholarly publishing as a platform for scholarly discourse as well as a process for developing intellectual products. […]

The Bromo-Seltzer Tower in Baltimore, Maryland. © by James G. Howes, 2008.
Baltimore, MD Bromo-Seltzer was invented in this town by Captain Isaac Emerson. To celebrate his tummy-taming elixir he built a clock tower in 1911 that was intended to look like the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. The Baltimore version included a marvelous 51-foot […]

New York, NY Will tracking pop stars and images of swirling hurricanes on cell phones and through social networking sites become what future generations think of as “news”? Over 100 media representatives, librarians, academics and technology specialists gathered at the New York Public Library to talk about preserving news for future scholars on Oct. […]

Since 2000 National Science Digital Library (NSDL) projects and partners have demonstrated multiple ways to provide high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning. This year’s NSDL Annual Meeting promises to highlight even more of these ongoing cyberlearning initiatives that in total have increased the educational value of national investment in […]

If you cross Amazon.com CTO Verner Vogels’, “Two Pizza Team Rule” with what David Flanders, Project Manager, The Bloomsbury Colleges, and organizer of the summer of 2008 “Repository Road Shows,” compares to “Penny Universities” of the 18th century that were often convened in taverns, or to the work life of Shakespeare who more than likely […]