Critical Analysis of Information Organization in NSDL Digital Library

This report offers a critical analysis of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), an open-access digital library providing STEM educational resources. The analysis examines NSDL's approach to organizing information, emphasizing its use of metadata, digital tools, and techniques. The report highlights the NSDL's application of the Dublin Core metadata schema and the OAI-PMH protocol, and its socio-technical approach. It evaluates the nature of the content, target users (primarily learners and researchers in STEM fields), and the features of the NSDL service, including open access and multiple user access. Furthermore, it discusses the NSDL's efforts to develop new tools for information organization and addresses ethical and legal issues related to data privacy. The report concludes with a reflection on the skills developed during the assignment, such as decision-making, communication, and critical thinking, emphasizing their relevance for professional development and future growth. The report highlights the NSDL's role in providing valuable resources for students and researchers in the STEM field.

Critical analysis of information
organization research and
development in specific contexts

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
ASSESSMENT................................................................................................................................1
Critically analyse the approaches taken by the chosen service for using metadata and various
other tools and techniques for organising information in the given domain...............................1
Critical analysis when used in context of subject domain...........................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Meta data refers to collection of data of data. There are large number of data set which consists
of various type of data and info. these data set are stored within data base which enable
researcher, scholar etc to access it in order to gain secondary info about study. There are several
tools and techniques as well which is used in organising knowledge (Budhwar, , Varma,. and
Patel, 2016). The use of tools and techniques depends on type of knowledge to be organised.
Each tool organise it in different way. However, it is necessary to organise knowledge in
efficient way so that it can be used.
This report will discuss about how NSDL tools and how it is used in specific domain and
service.
ASSESSMENT
Critically analyse the approaches taken by the chosen service for using metadata and various
other tools and techniques for organising information in the given domain
In present era of technology there are many tools and techniques to organise data. It is
necessary to organise data so that it can be used in proper way. Along with it, meta data contain
a large set of info the digital library is library where a lot of data is stored in segregated way.
The United States' National Science Digital Library (NSDL) is an open access online digital
library and collaborative network of disciplinary and grade level focused education providers. As
per the view of Li and Liu, (2019) the library makes use of various digital tools in order to
provide learning related to fields like science technology, engineering and mathematics. They
have been involved in providing the STEM content. This library is been involved in providing
high quality of online educational resources that can assist learners in achieving their set target as
well as objectives. Disciplines related to this have been based on both local and international
educational institution. These providers have contributed this metadata to NSDL for organized
search and open access to educational resources via this website and its services. It has also been
evaluated that open educational resources have been provided by the websites. It has also been
analysed that the resources provided in this are also provided in the various forms such as case
study, data set, and diagram. It has been evaluated that most of resources are been provided for
free of cost for educational purpose. The most of resources that has been provided in library are
been based on open educational resources and it can be explored by each and every individual.
Although it has also been evaluated that some of the resources are also restricted for the
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members that are been engaged in library and cost can also be associated with it. It has also been
analysed that there are various browse providers that has been engaged with library such as
American museum of national history. Socio technical approach has been used and utilised by
this library (Bogna, Raineri, and Dell, , 2020). LAR that is learning application readiness has
also been used by this digital library in order to provide high quality of education to the learners.
It has also been analysed that this website has also made use of early deployment that is rapid
with the help of OAI- PMH protocol and they have also made use of Dublin Core metadata
schema that is over qualified in nature. All this has made the content of website of high quality
and user can experience and explore high quality of content. Socio technical model or approach
has been used in order to make the initiative taken by digital library successful. Multi faceted
approach has been used for the development of library. They have also been analysed the
resources that can be used for development of NSDL library. NSDL has also evaluated their
activities. They have also been involved in following the web matrix. This digital website has
assisted so many learners in increasing their knowledge towards science and technology. Quality
of content has been presented in website is of high quality. Also, the data is stored in
segregated way so it is easily retrieved by user. With quality privacy of data is maintained as
well in it (Cooke, 2018).
Critical analysis when used in context of subject domain
Nature of the content, target users and the features of the chosen service.
The nature of the content has been published in the digital library is of high quality. There are
also various features that have been related to services which is being provided by library. They
have been engaged in providing the learning application readiness resources. These are been
given in order to increase the critical thinking ability and problem solving skills of users or
learners that has been engaged in exploring the library. The target users are basically learners
that need to increase their knowledge related to STEM (Alzahrani and et.al, 2019). This library
or website is been involved in fulfilling pedagogical needs of educators as well as learners and it
has also been analysed that this digital library has free access to their services. It has also been
evaluated that they provide users with web based graph and because of this, digital library has
been able to set benchmark. It has also been analysed that learners can explore this library for
free of cost and all of the people can have access to this digital library. The nature of content is
based on STEM and it has also been evaluated that so many software engineers and librarians
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were been engaged in development of this digital website. The main aim of this digital library
was to normalise the Meta data support so that it can be used by various learners and also they
have been engaged in making use of diverse learning applications tools so that the knowledge
related to subject matter increases. The target users are learners who are been interested in
increase their knowledge towards science and technical fields. This digital library has been
useful for it. also, scholar and researcher are users who wants to gain secondary data about any
topic related to science and medical field. The database helps them to provide large number of
research article and journal. With that it becomes easy for them to obtain data in it. moreover,
normal university student are target user as well who want to gain knowledge about science field
(Bansal, Smith, and Vaara, , 2018).
There are some features as well of chosen service which are defined as
 It is an open data base so it becomes easy for users to get access of it. there is no
limitation or boundation in it.
 It offers multiple access to multiple users at same time. thus, every one can easily
access it 24//7.
 In this info can be easily retrieved and this allows user to access it easily. Moreover,
there is preservation and conservation of information in it.
 The NSDL adds value to student knowledge as they are able to gain data from it related
to their subject and field.
It has been stated that NDSL is digital library where all types of data base and documents are
available. digital library store data and info in such a way that it is easily available for all users.
The DL management is responsible for its maintenance and ensuring that data and info is not
leaked. There is change in things as well related to it as meta data stored in it is support current
mechanism. However, in recent times DL is transformed as there it has given many advantage
over web. With that it has become easy to access data and info in effective way. Moreover,
there is particular protocol through which meta data is used by NDSL. Here, open archive
initiative protocol is used in it (Evans-Agnew, and et.al., 2016). besides that, meta data
respirator holds each thing in which helps in accessing of data in easy way. the library makes
use of various digital tools in order to provide learning related to fields like science technology,
engineering and mathematics.
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The NDSL is considering to develop some more tools and techniques for organising of
info. they are trying to include content analysis, structured annotation, etc in order to organise
data. This will also make it easy for user to access data from library. Here, main tool which is
used is OAI. Its purpose is to share metadata in a manner that is easy to implement and use. It
is instructive to examine some of the difficulties we encountered to understand which are the
results of being an early adopter of Version 2.0 of the protocol, which come from peculiarities of
the NSDL, and which are fundamental to the OAI PMH.
There exist certain ethical issues as well which needs to be solved. Also, there are some
legal issues which can arise. The issues are related to privacy of data and info. therefore, within
NSDL it is ensured that those issues does not arise and data privacy is maintained. The
information retrieval must be done in proper way (Durepos, Shaffner, and Taylor, 2019).
One own skills developed during the assignment
By doing this assignment i developed various types of skills. It will be helpful for me in
future and my professional growth. So, here i learned decision making skills that how to take
effective decisions. Here, i have to use database to gain info about research topic. So i got to
know that how decision is taken. in addition, i gained knowledge about various types of
database which are available and how it is used in particular context. Another skill which i
developed was communication. I got to know what type of communication exist and ways of it.
besides that, i effectively interacted with others during assignment. Also, i developed time
management skill as well. i got to know that how to work in schedule and manage time. through
that i was able to complete tasks in specified time period. Alongside, i gained knowledge that
how to do priority activities on time so that free time can be utilised for self growth and
learning. It will help me in my future growth. I can gain experience within a more professional
world but for most of the part I require to seek them as several other skills (Cooke, 2018). I
will dedicate myself to improves each and every skills of these areas as well as maximizes my
chances for succeeding within my position. I also developed critical thinking skills. It also
enabled me for more creative solutions to the problems, faster analysis for bad situations as well
as provided greater pattern identification for within large systems as well as its applications. It
makes me more capable of analyzing, acknowledging as well as solving problems in effective
way.
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CONCLUSION
From above it is concluded that NSDL is an open access online digital library and
collaborative network of disciplinary and grade level focused education providers. This library is
been involved in providing high quality of online educational resources that can assist learners in
achieving their set target as well as objectives. The nature of the content has been published in
the digital library is of high quality. There are also various features that have been related to
services which is being provided by library. Furthermore target users are basically learners that
need to increase their knowledge related to STEM. OAI tool is used for organising of data and
info in NSDL.
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