Transcript poster-NSDL-2002 - Center for the Study of Digital Libraries

Project Goals
 Disseminate tools for broader use by the
 Develop infrastructure for supporting
community
contextualization of Web-based Digital
Libraries materials for use in education
 Refine infrastructure to respond to the
 Develop tools for managing collections community’s experiences
over digital library materials
Path Server
Path Manager
 Paths and other meta-documents must face the continuous and unpredictable
 Organizes use of Webbased resources to meet
curricular goals with
paths
changes of referenced Web pages
 Creation of advanced heuristics
based on the analysis
perceive changes
 Supports navigation,
both within and outside
the path framework
 Aids managers of
collections by
differentiating
 Observation of use in
Navigation area:
Path traversal controls
Annotation area:
Comments that place
the path stop in context
Content frame:
Actual contents of Web page
unimportant
 Community building
Off the path
traversal
 Provides a guided
exploratory
environment for
learning
important from
Current Directions
Returning to
the path
 Annotations place
disparate elements into
a common context
of how humans
changes
On the path
traversal
Context-Sensitive Algorithms
 Complements current page-to-page mechanisms
 Measures distance based on page-to-path comparisons
 Employs the structure of the path when evaluating
possible replacements for a page
Returning to the path
Traversal along the path
undergraduate educational
environments
 Alternative path structures
 Incorporate advanced
heuristics Path Manager
Off the path traversal
Traversal along the path
 Integrate context-sensitive
algorithms into Path
Manager
 Integration of quizzes and
feedback mechanisms
 Incorporation of features
Authoring paths
for personalization of the
 Creation of tools that support for creating, editing and publishing paths
environment
 PathCreator: Web-based tool that creates paths online
 PathAuthor: Network-independent tools that creates paths off-line
The Walden's Paths Project provides a set of tools to assist with organizing,
Visit the Web-site http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/walden/ to create
annotating, and maintaining a thread of ideas from distributed locations
and present paths or find out how to host your own Walden’s Paths
chosen from within the greater collection of the World-Wide Web
installation