Developing a Vision Support Planning Tool: From Vision to Reality

SMETE.ORG will work with Principal Investigator Gerry Hanley and the MERLOT team to meet the objectives outlined in the proposal: From Vision to Reality: NSDL PI Meeting.

Since 1999 the SMETE.ORG team has hosted and maintained a community site for the National SMETE Digital Library program. In 2000-2001, we developed the NSDL Community Center site to specifically support the developers of the National SMETE Digital Library. As the developers building the collections and services that will make up the National SMETE Digital Library continues to grow and expand, the need for continued support of the NSDL Community Center is clear. Strong leadership is needed to nurture and grow the community of developers; providing them support to facilitate their communications and providing support for the community-based development of the National SMETE Digital Library.

Through December 31, 2001 the SMETE.ORG team will:

> Maintain the NSDL Community Center web site (see www.smete.org/nsdl).

> Provide support for the online communications (workgroup home pages and email discussion lists)of the NSDL workgroups.

> Provide meeting support for the NSDL teleconferences.

> Provide registration support for the NSDL All Projects Meeting on December 3-4, 2001

As an additional service to the developers of the National SMETE Digital Library, the SMETE.ORG team will work with MERLOT to develop an online tool for Vision Support Planning. This tool helps to transform the vision of the National SMETE Digital Library program into reality. It will link activities, provided by program participants, to the overall vision of the National SMETE Digital Library.

Through February 28, 2002 the SMETE.ORG team will:

> Design, develop and test the Vision Support Planning process, including a web site and user interface to enter and search for activities and projects, as well as its back-end database and programming.

> Deploy and maintain the Vision Support Planning tool in advance of the NSDL All Projects Meeting.