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An astounding array of available data and models
One of the advantages of using COTS software is that this
provides a wide range of data format input and output.
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K-12 Teachers
The next generation of data tools is being built today in the NSDL. These tools will bring live data access and simple data viewers that can help your students achieve new levels of data literacy. Learn how you can get involved!
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College and University Teachers
The NSDL is working to bring research-level data tools to your classroom or lab. Your students can experiment with real data observations or run models without needing to know complicated software. Learn how you can get involved!
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Museum Director or Media Staff
Building interactive data-rich kiosks and give-away software for your museum has never been simpler. With the DDTF technology and your own Macromedia Director® applications. Or you can come to the foundry to find others to help.
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NSDL or ESIP Data Collection Project
Your collection of data resources holds a wealth of educational information. The DDTF is building the user tools that can tap your resources for classroom and other use. Come and see how the foundry can add value to your collection.
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Campus Media and Curricular Development
If you are developing resources for teachers to use to
bring data into their classroom, here you can explore how the DDTF can help
you to add real and real time data to your current Director®/Flash® development
efforts.
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Data highlight: OPeNDaP and THREDDS
The Foundry is also collaborating with another NSDL project, THREDDS, which will provide a cataloging interface to a wide range of data resources. The Foundry is one of several "thick" client technologies for this effort. Models and model input and output Because IDL can run external models, virtually any model that can run on a desktop computer can be incorporated into the the Foundry's application development process. 3D Graphics
This feature means that Foundry applications will have expanded "telepresence" capabilities and other 3- 4D display options that were not available previously. Already, Foundry programmers are finding ways to use the Intel 3D capabilities to add interactivity to Foundry applications. This points to an additional benefit of working with COTS software: other people are improving the software. There is an active community of code writers and for both IDL and Director. We are a part of a larger effort, and can leverage this knowledge base for the NSDL. Available Data formats: a complete list Through the use of IDL®, the Foundry can offer the following data format inputs: Scientific data formats:
Other data formats: BMP (Microsoft Windows Bitmap)
In Director® virtually all common media file formats can be handled. Director also parses XML.
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new feature for the Foundry comes with the expansion of Director into
3d graphics displays. Macromedia, Inc. and Intel™ have partnered
to include the Intel-3D® software in Director. Recently, Alias|Wavefront
created a plug-in to Director so that users of its Maya program can
