Mark BenthienSouthern California Earthquake Center

benthien@usc.edu

Collaborative Developmentof the

Electronic Encyclopedia of Earthquakes (E3)www.earthquake.info

Collaborating Partner Organizations

• Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)

– 44 institutions nationwide– Multidisciplinary earthquake science,

education and outreach

• Consortia of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE)

– 30 institutions nationwide– Project-based research

• Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS)

– >100 institutions nationwide– Seismology data center, portable equipment

for research projects, large education program

Overview of E3

• Collects and/or links to content from many sources

• Organizes educational, informational, and technical resources relevant for earthquake science and engineering, some of which are also useful for teaching physics and mathematics.

• Encyclopedia structure with several hundred entries in geoscience and engineering.

http://www.scec.org/e3 (login: e3, password: eee)

Entry Definition and Synopsis

Curricular Connections and Content-in-Depth

Curricular Connection Search Page

Faculty/Student Development Teams

• Distribution of initial entries for development:– SCEC: Sally McGill -- Basin and Range; earthquake prediction; Owens Valley,California,

earthquake of 1872; paleoseismology; Parkfield, California; San Jacinto fault zone; strike-slip fault;

– SCEC: Sue Owen -- geodesy, GPS, GPS station

– SCEC: Gerry Simila/ Norm Herr -- alluvium, Antarctic Plate, American Geophysical Union(AGU)

– SCEC: Jan Vermilye -- active fault, blind thrust fault, fault, fault breccia,fault gouge, fault trace, fault

zone, listric fault, sag pond, thrust fault

– IRIS: Erin Klosko -- Rayleigh waves, S wave, P wave

– IRIS: Larry Braile -- (new)

– CUREE: Tara Hutchinson -- foundations, highway bridges, lifelines, pilefoundation, shallow

foundations

– CUREE: Willy Ramirez -- dynamic response, retrofit, structural engineer,structural engineering

– CUREE: Ellen Rathje -- Cone Penetration Tests (CPT), geotechnical engineering,liquefaction

– CUREE: Bob Reitherman -- history of earthquake engineering, nonstructuralcomponents

Community Organized Resource Environment (CORE)

• Inter-Library Collaboration– NSDL, DLESE, others?

• Organizational Collaboration– SCEC, CUREE and IRIS (management level)

– Partnerships with professional organizations and other research and education initiatives (EarthScope, NEES, etc.)

• Institutional Collaboration– A Development Team is a collaboration between

faculty and students

– Development Teams collaborate with other teams to share resources relevant to other topics

– Teams also involve other participants from their institution or elsewhere

Levels of Collaboration within the E3 Project

• Collaboration with Content Creators– Permission for use of digital objects– Agreement for long-term maintenance

• Collaboration with Reviewers– Topical experts for entry

definition/synopses/content-in-depth– Educators (K-12 and College) for curricular

connections

• Collaboration with Users– Usability assessment– Creation of sets of favorite resources/ lesson

plan tools/ course development

Levels of Collaboration within the E3 Project

• Collaboration should be carefully planned– Begin with a core group, then expand as capacity for participation increases– Additional collaborators must learn the culture of the project quickly; being able to

communicate the culture is a challenge

• Principles at all levels– Shared responsibility: All organizations, development teams, etc. have share in decision

making– Mutual respect: We’re creating something new; all new ideas are encouraged, and everyone

is doing their best– Flexibility: Change in the structure of the system (and metadata) is ongoing. Development

teams work at different paces.

• Participants must have more to gain than funding or recognition– They see the value of the project– They have material to share but no mechanism– No single participant has the expertise (nor time) to create the entire Encyclopedia

Collaboration: Lessons Learned

Other Uses of E3/Core System: New Collaborators

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