Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype
Project Description

The Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT) is a comprehensive follow-on to the previously funded Alexandria Digital Library Project (ADL). ADEPT aims to use the digital earth metaphor for organizing, using, and presenting information at all levels of spatial and temporal resolution. We call the digital environments based on the Earth Metaphor Iscapes (Information Landscapes). The research and development activities will focus on:

• creating geospatial information and meta-information collections;
• building operational services for: (1) discovering heterogeneous, distributed collections; (2) organizing these resources into Iscapes tailored for specific applications; and (3) collaborative use and visualization of iscapes;
• applying and evaluating adept services in undergraduate learning; and developing scalable, efficient, and secure systems

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