=> the ``first stop'' for anyone who wishes to inquire about the Earth (it's atmosphere, oceans, continents, interior, biosphere, renewable and non-renewable resources, climate, and its workings as a complex non-linear system) |
=> a resource for scholars, students, industry, commerce, and the wise stewardship of our planet |
=> a place to ``go ask'' the Earth Expert and get a timely, complete, and coherent answer for constituents |
=> a digital library with its own internal content and links to a virtual universal content |
=> a digital library with interactive tools to selectively search for, retrieve, and visualize multi-dimensional heterogeneous materials and their metadata |
=> a resource with its own simulators and compuational models for further analysis and presentation of retrieved information or user-supplied data |
=> a test-bed for search and retrieval engines working across textual, image, numerical, and spectral domains |
=> a reporter of near real-time phenomena such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, etc., through the continuous logging of event-based data and other global change indicators, e.g. fish stocks, El Nino, acid rain, etc. |
=> a scalable enterprise attuned to new information technologies and new sources of information |
=> a center in which experts add significant value to external data so as to generate greater usability, marketability, and synergism among its constituents |
=> a income generator based on automatically billable transactions, the licensing of its tools, and grants/contracts to undertake the value-adding activities |
For more information, please contact
Judith Klavans
at
klavans@cs.columbia.edu
and William Ryan at billr@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu
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