Community:Committees/Sustainability

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Update: As of October 1, 2008, NSDL Standing Committees as well as the Policy Committee have been sunsetted, by action of the Policy Committee at the 2008 NSDL Annual Meeting. Information available here is archival.

National Science Digital Library Standing Committees were established early in NSDL's development to support community formation and collaboration. In some cases, NSDL Standing Committees have reduced their activities in 2007-2008, as NSDL transitions from the need for permanent Standing Committees to the formation of small working groups to address specific issues of community concern (e.g. Community Sign On working group; Pathways Evaluation working group; Metadata working group).

Standing Committee wikis are available as collaborative spaces and records of past accomplishments.

Contents 1 Mission 2 Sustainability Standing Committee Officers 3 Documents, Reports 4 Other resources

Mission

The Sustainability Standing Committee (SSC) works to facilitate the long-term implementation and evolution of the NSDL program, projects, user-community and technology elements, such as the implementation of e-commerce solutions and the development of corporate frameworks that empower projects to become sustainable.

Sustainability Standing Committee Officers

• Chair: Liz Liddy (liddy@mailbox.syr.edu)
• Co-Chair: Lois McLean (nsdl@storyline.com)

• NSDL Liaison to the Sustainability Standing Committee: Kaye Howe (kaye@ucar.edu)

Documents, Reports

• Sustainability Matrix (September 2006)
• Draft Decision Tree of Sustainability Options (July 2006)
• Table 1: describes the scope of various sustainability elements in NSDL (January 2006)
• Matrix of Sustainability Vignette Features (November 2005)
  • Foundation for Earth System Information Partners (October 2005)
  • Math Gateway/MathDL (September 2005)
  • Electronic Environmental Resources Library (April 2005)
  • Journal of Chemical Education (January 2005)
  • Macaulay Library (December 2004)
  • Teachers Domain by WGBH (November 2005)

Other resources

• Meeting and teleconference notes from 2002-2006, as well as papers, presentations, planning documents and drafts, and workshop reports are archived at nsdl.org. To obtain access to archived documents, send an email request to nsdlsupport

• List of References on Sustainability and digital libraries - compiled by former Chair Paul Berkman.

• Archive of the Sustainability Standing Committee email list