The server is designed to be a WWW resource: users can write their own hypertext and simply link directly to data-based figures, calculations, even data-manipulating tools. Alternatively, datasets and arbitrary subsets of datasets can be specified as urls for web-aware tools, or can be downloaded in a variety of formats for use in older tools. While the dataset environment appears to be uniform, the datasets are spread over a network of data servers and local copies are updated automatically. The Data Library is thus both a member of and a prototype for the next generation of tools that manipulate data and metadata directly from networks of dataset servers.
Overview | - | Data Library Structure |
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User Interface | - | user interface |
Sample Datasets | - | sample datasets |
GIS formats | - | current (and future) GIS formats |
Sample Downloads | - | sample sessions for downloading data |
Arc Info Interface | - | Valerie Obsomer's interface for transforming directories of images from the Data Library |