The NSDL-LONCAPA Gateway effort is part of a funded pilot project to investigate integration between the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) and the LearningOnline Network with CAPA (LON-CAPA).

From the standpoint of NSDL, two things must happen on the gateway: 1) LON-CAPA metadata must be available in a suitable XML format (IEEE LOM and/or Dublin core); and 2) LON-CAPA must implement an OAI-compatible harvesting protocol.

From the standpoint of LON-CAPA, two things must happen via the gateway: 1) maintaining transparency--all interaction with NSDL is to be seamless and "on-the-fly" from the standpoint of users; and therefore 2) tight integration is anticipated.