Development of a SuperCard Interface for Dynamic Digital Maps in Geology Instruction

地质教学中动态数字地图SuperCard接口的开发

• 批准号: 9455563
• 负责人: Christopher Condit
• 金额: $ 7万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-05-01 至 1998-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9455563&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; SuperCard; Interface; Dynamic; Digital

This project enables undergraduate students to generate high-quality color geologic maps in a newly developed stand alone "hypermedia" programming format (SuperCard) that links ancillary data with these maps, termed "dynamic digital maps". The dynamic digital map "templates" will enable any geologist to insert maps, figures, photographs, and data, and should benefit the entire geologic community. These templates will offer an entirely new medium for the publication and distribution of high-quality color geologic maps in the computer environment, including all ancillary data (for example, chemistry or structural data), linked to these maps in an easily accessible format. Because all data can be saved from the program to tab-delimited ASCII format files, the data are easily accessible and accurately transferable to other workers. Also, because of the digital format, a wealth of data can be included, all of which can be easily distributed by Internet, on diskettes, or CD-ROM. Students learning the techniques needed to do this will benefit greatly in making desktop computers a more productive tool for solving geologic problems; in addition they become more employable by having these skills.

该项目使本科生能够以一种新开发的独立“超媒体”编程格式(SuperCard)生成高质量的彩色地质图，该格式将辅助数据与这些地图联系起来，称为“动态数字地图”。动态数字地图“模板”将使任何地质学家能够插入地图、图形、照片和数据，并应使整个地质界受益。这些模板将提供一种全新的媒介，用于在计算机环境中出版和分发高质量的彩色地质图，包括所有辅助数据(例如，化学或结构数据)，并以一种易于获取的格式与这些地图相链接。由于所有数据都可以从程序保存为制表符分隔的ASCII格式文件，因此数据很容易访问，并可以准确地传输给其他工作人员。此外，由于数字格式，可以包含丰富的数据，所有这些数据都可以很容易地通过互联网、软盘或CD-ROM分发。学习这样做所需的技术的学生将大大受益于使台式计算机成为解决地质问题的更具生产力的工具；此外，通过拥有这些技能，他们变得更有就业能力。