What is it about?
My chapters in this work apply a model to digital project sustainability and conclude that few projects in the National Science Foundation's 10-year experiment, the National Science Digital Library, would be able to sustain for the long term.
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Why is it important?
The most critical issues for digital project sustainability are a flexible organizational structure and technology infrastructure and the support of a stable organizational owner with sufficient and predictable funding. Projects that cannot demonstrate value to the parent institution--often a university--by directly contributing to the mission, will seldom be sustained, despite promises that may be made to granting agencies. This has proven to be the case with the National Science Digital Library projects, most of which have evaporated.
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This page is a summary of: Digital Resources for STEM Educators and Recommendations for Cyberlearning Initiatives: Results from the National Science Foundation Digital Library/Distributed Learning Program Evaluation, January 2017, Rand Corporation,
DOI: 10.7249/rr414.
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