AUGMENTATION OF THE RESOURCES OF THE PROJECT

Apart from the significant addition to the project's resources in terms of personnel, equipment, and software that have accrued from interactions with our partners, as described above, the project has received significant augmentations of its base funding in terms of the following awards and contributions.

In particular we note the following awards:

1. For 1997, NASA provided financial support ($48,800 in total) to link the federal government's Global Change Data and Information System (GCDIS) to the federally funded Digital Library Initiatives (DLIs). This contribution helped toward the support of Linda Hill while she worked with the Alexandria. Digital Library Project. The scope of the tasks included the development of the Content Standard for Gazetteers, the development of thesauri, the concept space experimentation with the University of Arizona, and information exchange between GCDIS and the DLIs. These research and development activities are reported on elsewhere in this report.

2. Mike Goodchild is PI of a three-year, $600,000 award from the National Imagery and Mapping Agency titled ``Uncertainty in geospatial information representation'' Co-PIs are Dan Montello and Keith Clarke (UCSB) and Kate Beard (Maine). The research conducted under this award will help us to deal with the problems that arise when georeferenced data sets retrieved through ADL fail to register, or when methods must be found to describe uncertainty effectively in ADL metadata.

3. Funding has been received to develop a spatial data infrastructure and DL capability in Ecopetrol, the Colombian national petroleum company. It will support graduate students and Colombian researchers in Santa Barbara for a period of two years. The value of the project is approximately $270,000. In addition, the Colorado team has been approached by the Arctic and Alpine LTER site to participate in their next funding cycle, and will meet in November to discuss avenues of common research interest, following the successful Niwot Ridge pilot study.

4. The funding for ALASKA (A Large Scale Knowledge Repository) finally arrived. ALASKA has been funded separately by NSF as a research program to develop a new indexing technology. ADL however provides an excellent testbed, and initial applications of ALASKA will be geared to enhancing the performance and functionality of ADL.

5. National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NSF) $1,836,000.
6. The Alexandria Project: Supplement for Human Dimensions in Knowledge Networking Workshop June 19-20, 1997 (NSF) $60,000.

7. ADL'98 Funds $20,000 (for ADL '98 conference expenses only).

• Funding Requests Under Consideration
• Unsuccessful Funding Requests
• Professional interactions with DL Community
  • Metadata Standards Activities
• Publicity