UW-Extension Activities

Digital Asset Management team members have participated in, referred to and reviewed several activities currently taking place within UW-Extension. These activities include:

Evolving the Links
Over the past several years, Wisconsin Public Television has formed a network of public television (PTV), university and private partners via the Collaborative Production and Reforging the Links projects. Evolving the Links has explored, developed and disseminated new PTV services. Resources available through the Evolving the Links project include discussions on media asset management systems, an article on why metadata matters, Web resources from a DAM Initiatives Panel and slide presentations such as "Managing Digital Video Content" from ViDe.

WISCERS
Wisconsin Cooperative Extension Resource Searcher
WISCERS is an electronically searchable database of current UW-Extension Cooperative Extension resource media. It includes items such as publications, videos, CD-ROMs, and Web pages. Currently over 1200 resources are cataloged. WISCERS features a classification system defined by metafields identified by the National Agricultural Library, a five level categorization process, including the identification of peer review status. A Web-based training program is offered to those responsible for submitting materials to the database.

IDEAS
As a portal site, IDEAS provides education professionals a starting point in their search for educational materials. The IDEAS site includes links to lesson plans and other curricular resources that have been evaluated for quality, aligned to the Wisconsin State Academic Standards, and cataloged. Each resource must pass multiple evaluations by the staff. A quality rubric is used by educators to evaluate potential resources. New programming will allow outside agencies to enter their resources into the database for approval by IDEAS researchers.

Business Links & Online Library
The Wisconsin Small Business Development Center (WSBDC) exists to serve the people of the State of Wisconsin. As a service, the WSBDC provides an online library of Business Resources and Links. Users may obtain Fact and Information Sheets, Reprints, Articles and Web Links categorized into dozens of preselected topics.

Academic Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Co-Lab
The Academic ADL Co-Lab at the University of Wisconsin offers a unique opportunity to integrate video indexing into the larger context of learning object management. A key focal point of the Co-Lab is the Sharable Content Object Reference Model, or SCORM. The Co-Lab also host a small Learning Objects Web site.

Portal Wisconsin
Portalwisconsin.org is a non-profit Web site created by the Cultural Coalition to promote culture, arts, humanities and history in Wisconsin. Content includes a statewide events calendar, news articles, course listings, organizational listings, streaming video and audio, moderated online chats, online galleries, and Web links. Users are able to search for content by keyword, geographic area, interest area and other means.

AgNIC
Agriculture Network Information Center
AgNIC is a voluntary alliance of the National Agricultural Library, land-grant universities and other agricultural organizations, in cooperation with citizen groups and government agencies. Although not solely a UW-Extension project, the UW does have an institutional membership in the AgNIC project and contributes to the database in the subject area for the American Cranberry. A thesaurus includes all the subject terms used to describe Web resources included in the AgNIC database. Content and organization is determined by librarians at Steenbock Library in collaboration with faculty from the departments of Horticulture and Plant Pathology at UW-Madison, including UW-Extension specialists.