Demos and Examples

This page links to examples that demonstrate how the DLESE search and discovery system has been customized and integrated with other web sites and applications. Each of these pages or components is implemented using DLESE Services and APIs .

Thematic DLESE search pages:

Search pages that are in operation:

COSEE - The national Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence Web site provides a search over the COSEE collections in DLESE, and also contains resources from each of the COSEE centers. See also the original demo prepared for COSEE.
MY NASA DATA - A lesson plan focus page on the MY NASA DATA site (linked from NASA).
NASA S'COOL - A lesson plan focus page on the NASA S'COOL site (linked from S'COOL).
GLOBE - The GLOBE search page for DLESE resources (linked from GLOBE).
Florida COSEE (demo) - Demo prepared for Florida COSEE
DLISR - The Digital Library of Indigenous Science Resources. See also the local DLISR page proxy.
NJESTA - The New Jersey Earth Science Teachers Associataion web site.

Search pages that are in beta testing or are demonstrators:

Burnsville Integrated School District 191 - Professional Development Site - A demonstration of using DLESE to find professional development resources for a school district in Minnesota.
Consortion for Oceanographic Research and Education (CORE) - Using DLESE search to focus on Oceanographic resources for their marine education programs.
International Polar Year - DLESE resources for polar research and education. Also, see the original IPY serach page created at the DPC.
Teachers and Researchers - Exploring and Collaborating (TREC) - A demonstration search page for TREC.
Teachers Domain - A demo for a Teachers Domain (WGBH) lesson plan that incorporate DLESE resources (see smart link at the bottom of the page).
DLESE Google Maps - A demonstration of DLESE's geospatial catalog information used to plot DLESE resources using Google maps.
Nederland High School - Nederland, Colorado library concept map and DLESE search page.
Evaluation Services - A specialized search page that highlights Evaluation Services resources.
IRIS ENO - The IRIS seismology education and outreach site.
NOAA Education - the NOAA education Web site.
Woods Hole - The outreach Web site at Woods Hole.
SCORE - Space science resources: The South Central Organization of Researchers and Educators site.
DLESE resources for meteorology - DLESE resources about atmospheric science, focus site.
DLESE resources on climate - Climate and climate change.

DLESE library components that are implemented and in operation using web services:

Resource discovery - a system for searching educational resources by type, grade level, education standard, and collection
DLESE News and Opportunities - library postings about news and opportunities in the community
Contributor Acknowledgement System - a system that automatically notifies resource creators that their resources have been cataloged in the library

Web sites and applications that have integrated DLESE search:

Concept Map Service - a visual concept space browser for Earth system education concepts that links Earth system concepts to educational resources found in DLESE. (Requires MS Internet Explorer with SVG plugin)
Earth System Event Browser - an Earth system event browser that links Earth system related events in the news such as hurricanes and earthquakes to educational resources found in DLESE. (last known address, not guaranteed)

Additional DLESE search pages:

Localization example - a search page that demonstates the use of language localization.
Query builder - DLESE search page query building tool.
Query test page - a simple search page for testing queries.
Content search comparison - a search page for comparing search over metadata vs search over metadata and content combined.
JavaScript search clients - search page clients implemented using a JavaScript service proxy.
Bridge search client and XML parser tool - The Bridge search page and XML parser tool.
Preaccessioned collections search client - Search page for preaccessioned collections used for accessioning and quality assurance.

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