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New Foundry Partners 2004!

Partners receive Free application software

	NOTE: Although our request for funding from the NSDL has not been successful, we will continue to offer the source code for our data-rich authoring system. We thank all of our partners for their support and their educational goals

Welcome to the Community and Foundry!

Use the buttons on the left to explore how this technology can help you bring data to your students and users; or how you can join the foundry to develop data-rich educational resources.

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K-12 Teachers

The next generation of data tools is being built today in the NSDL. These tools will bring live data access and simple data viewers that can help your students achieve new levels of data literacy. Learn how you can get involved!

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College and University Teachers

The NSDL is working to bring research-level data tools to your classroom or lab. Your students can experiment with real data observations or run models without needing to know complicated software. Learn how you can get involved!

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Museum Director or Media Staff

Building interactive data-rich kiosks and give-away software for your museum has never been simpler. With the DDTF technology and your own Macromedia Director® applications. Or you can come to the foundry to find others to help.

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NSDL or ESIP Data Collection Project

Your collection of data resources holds a wealth of educational information. The DDTF is building the user tools that can tap your resources for classroom and other use. Come and see how the foundry can add value to your collection.

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Campus Media and Curricular Development

If you are developing resources for teachers to use to bring data into their classroom, here you can explore how the DDTF can help you to add real and real time data to your current Director®/Flash® development efforts.

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	"Projects such as the... Data Discovery Toolkit show promise for revolutionizing how users collect and synthesize the information they discover through NSDL." 2003. Page 22.The National Science Digital Library [NSDL] Progress Report: Fall 2000-Summer 2003. Boulder: The National Science Digital Library.


	The Data Discovery Toolkit and Foundry NSDL Project uses Macromedia authoring capabilities built over an IDL (RSI, Inc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ITT Technologies) data/model access, visualization, and analysis engine. The resulting educational software products combine the rich media capabilities of Macromedia Director Shockwave (and Flash) with the research-level data and model capabilities of IDL.

	TWO Easy Steps
	first Fill out and send Application Request [using this link]
	Then Send an email to Bruce Caron to start the partnership discussion
	Again this year, our reviews were positive, but funding for the Foundry as an omnibus effort was not made available. Here are some of the 2004 NSF reviewer' s comments (all reviews were very good or good): "This proposal is extremely well conceived and organized. PIs are very well qualified. This group has provided the DDTF, which is the NSDL's main code-level community resource. The plans for collaboration with HEAL, the Smithsonian, NOAA, Lawrence Hall of Science, Rice University, Boston Museum of Science and additional groups looks very exciting." "This project promotes data literacy by building and sharing appropriate tools across all STEM disciplines." "This project would help redefine NSDL from a DL that contains only content to a library where code can be located and shared, thus increasing productivity for other DL developers." "The project proposes to create reusable code resources and to connect educational content with real data and models as a way of creating new value from active use of content code." "The Data Discovery Toolkit can deliver data discovery tools for any STEM discipline as well as build a center for data-visualization tool development for all levels of education." "This project has the potential for bridging the gaps between research and education, and between community-based and commercial software development approaches. " "Making data available as is proposed through the NSDL is wholly laudable and desirable. It could genuinely have a benevolent effect for the NSDL and for the community."
	We can work one-on-one with you to create the tools you need. But we will have to work together to find the funding to make this happen.