TNS Brown Bag: Tools You Can UseMeeting Description:
| NSDL’s Technical Network Services (TNS) provides a suite of open-source tools and support
services that the STEM education community can use for creating production digital libraries
and content-rich STEM learning environments.
This session provides current and prospective NSDL Pathways and projects, and other STEM
educational developers, with an overview of how three tools can be used to manage and access
collections of learning resources in interesting ways.
Join TNS staff for an overview of three key components:
(1) Strand Map Service (SMS) -SMS provides a web service protocol supporting the
construction of interactive knowledge map interfaces based on the learning goals articulated
in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Benchmarks for Science
Literacy and the learning progressions and strand maps published in the AAAS Atlas of Science
Literacy.
(2) NSDL Collection System (NCS) - Enables collection developers to efficiently and flexibly
create and manage collections of metadata describing educational resources such as learning
objects; user-provided comments and reviews, scientific data sets; and other curricular
components.
(3) Digital Discovery System (DDS) - DDS search service is optimized to support rapid
construction of audience-specific portals and applications and can be flexibly configured to
search over any XML schema structure. It also supports geospatial searching and can be
integrated with Web 2.0 applications such as Google Maps.
Presenters: Sharon Clark, Kathryn Ginger, Jonathan Ostwald, John Weatherley, and Mike Wright
Please contact us <http://localhost:8080/about/contactus/> if you have any questions.
This session will be recorded and archived if you cannot attend or for later viewing. You may
view the recorded conference at the link provided from the NSDL Brown Bag web page
Additional inquiries about NSDL tools and support services may be sent to [log in to unmask].
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| | Date: | Thu, Mar 5, 2009 | | Time: | 1:00 PM EST | | Duration: | 1 hour | | Host(s): | National Science Digital Library Resource Center |
Presenter Information
| | Katy Ginger | 
| Katy Ginger is a metadata architect for NSDL Technical Network Services
(TNS). She provides collection builders training on the NCS and help
integrate collections into NSDL.
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| | John Weatherley | 
| John Weatherley is a software engineer with the National Science Digital
Library, bringing experience from his work with the Digital Library for Earth
System Education (DLESE). He is a lead engineer for the Strand Map
Service (SMS), the Digital Discovery System (DDS) and the NSDL Curriculum
Customization Service (CCS).
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| | Jonathan Ostwald | 
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| | MIke Wright | 
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