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High-Level Coding with COTS Software
The Foundry leverages the open API potentials of leading
commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software products to create authoring environments
with enormous power and flexibility.
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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 Delivery begins with collections The Foundry creates applications that deliver a wide range of data, data that are being made available to the NSDL community from a host of data providers. Data collections are being organized within the NSDL, and through other participating organizations, such as the ESIP Federation (which is also a member of the NSDL). You will learn more about the data resources available to this technology on the Data Resources page, Data access, visualization, and analysis
Other function include a large array of data manipulation and statistics, image and signal processing capabilities, mapping and mathematic function, an extensible API, and the ability to run external models and data bases. Interactive multimedia user application development
Synergy from the marriage of IDL® and Director®
This capability is new, the technology is only months old. And the promise that this brings will be realized through the efforts of Foundry members adding content and code to be shared and reused.
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Data
Resources are accesssed and managed by research-level data use software
products. Currently, the Foundry is exploring the capabilities of
IDL® from RSI, a subsidiary of Kodak. In the future we will
add other data use software to accommodate their user communities.
The capabilities of IDL are legion, as is its learning curve. One
of the pioneers of data access software, it has grown over the years
to provide a broad range of data handling capabilities. IDL provides
a high-level command-line coding environment, a wide selection of
data format access tools, and 2- and 3D- data visualization capabilities.
Now,
if the Foundry was merely a place at the NSDL where Director®
or IDL® developers could share their code, that would be a
very useful service in itself. But the Foundry goes much further,
by
offering to these developers a technology that links together all
of the potential of both software products. The result is truly
the best of both worlds. With our plug-in technology, research-level
data tools can be incorporated
into applications developed using Director®. In a typical application,
the usual GUI elements (now shared resources in the Foundry),
and
HTML-based text and graphic content—all the science and the
background information the student needs—are supplemented
by real data delivered in IDL modules with data use tools. The
schematic
on the left shows the typical combination of learning objects and
other content and code.
