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. These are all built
automatically from the structure of the dataset collection. The
orthogonality between the datasets and the interface/operators means
that simply structuring the dataset properly quickly leads to a large
amount of functionality.
| 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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