A sociotechnical framework for evaluating a large-scale distributed educational digital library

  • Authors:
  • Michael Khoo

  • Affiliations:
  • National Science Digital Library, Boulder, CO

  • Venue:
  • ECDL'06 Proceedings of the 10th European conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The National Science Digital Library (NSDL: http://www.nsdl.org) supports all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. NSDL is conducting a program-wide evaluation of all its activities since 2000. The scale and complexity of the NSDL program pose significant challenges for this evaluation work. This poster outlines a sociotechnical theoretical framework, the ’resource lifecycle,’ that is being used to guide the evaluation of the NSDL program.