2004 UC Proceedings Abstract
 Accessing the Alexandria Digital Library From GIS Track: New Technology and System Integration Author(s): Dan Ancona Improving user access to the Alexandria Digital Library, a distributed library of geospatial data and georeferenced materials of all types, has been a recent focus of the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype project. This paper describes two experimental library clients that offer improved access to geospatial data: an ADL client for ArcView and another client being developed for the Virtual Terrain Project's Enviro terrain visualization package. The ArcView client provides a deliberately simplified user interface that neatly encapsulates the powerful underlying distributed geospatial search technology. Clients are built on the ADL Access Framework, an XML format that eases client access to library data available in multiple formats and retrievable by multiple methods. Issues common to both clients and future scenarios are also considered. Dan Ancona Alexandria Digital Library-UCSB Computer Science Alexandria Project - CS Dept. - UCSB Santa Barbara , CA 93106 US Phone: 805-893-7684 E-mail: da@alexandria.ucsb.edu |
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