MatDL.org: The Materials Digital Library and the National Science Digital Library Program
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MatDL.org: The Materials Digital Library and the National Science Digital Library Program Laura M. Bartolo1a, Sharon C. Glotzerb, Javed I. Khana, Adam C. Powell IVc, Donald R. Sadowayc , Kenneth M. Andersond a College of Arts and Sciences and Department of Computer Science, Kent State University, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242 b Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2136 c Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts d Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO ABSTRACT The National Science Foundation’s National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Program is a premier collective portal of authoritative scientific resources supporting education and research. With funding from NSF, the Materials Digital Library (MatDL) is a collaborative project being developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory (NIST/MSEL), the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan (U-M), with Kent State University and University of Colorado at Boulder providing the materials science informatics and workflow technology backbone. As part of the NSDL program, MatDL aims to supports the interface of materials science information and its cognate disciplines, with an emphasis on soft matter. Initial content of MatDL begins with resources selected from NIST/MSEL. Students and faculty in three types of materials science and engineering (MSE) courses at MIT and U-M are taking part in a pilot to use and contribute to MatDL utilizing domain-specific authoring tools. Given the central and interdisciplinary role of materials science in science and engineering, two goals of MatDL are to: 1.) expand its founding partnership with additional participants from the MSE community; and 2.) facilitate the flow of digital materials related knowledge from laboratories where the most recent research discoveries are taking place to the classrooms where new scientists are being trained. INTRODUCTION Digital libraries can help students and researchers address creation, discovery and retrieval of relevant new knowledge [1]. The National Science Foundation has played a lead role in the formation and direction of digital libraries in the United States. One NSF initiative to facilitate the transfer of new knowledge to laboratories and classrooms is the National Science Digital Library Program (NSDL). A federation of over 150 individual projects, NSDL spans all areas of the sciences for all levels of users [2]. As part of the NSDL, the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST/MSEL), the Department of Materials Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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