There are three major parts to a data library: helping users find
suitable data, providing a useful summary of the data once found, and
helping users make use of the data.
| Finding data
| - | This includes database searches, electronic magazines, and interactive
learning materials.
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| The data
| - | Here the WWW equivalent to a dataset is a basic description of the dataset, with links to more
information and the data itself.
For example, consider the Weekly Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly page.
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| Using data
| - | This includes an interactive data viewer, tables, datafiles,
filters (i.e. calculations and subsets) and a
variety of plots.
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| More Datasets
| - | examples of more sophisticated datasets.
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