Community:StrandMaps

What's Happening

See it in Action

• NSDL Science Literacy Maps

Latest Releases

SMS v1.2.9

Development Team

Tamara Sumner, Executive Director and Associate Professor

DLS, Institute of Cognitive Science - University of Colorado at Boulder

John Weatherley, Software Developer

DLS, NSDL Core Integration, UCAR

Sharon Clark, Web Developer

NSDL Core Integration, UCAR

Faisal Ahmad, Graduate Research Assistant

Institute of Cognitive Science - University of Colorado at Boulder

Lynne Davis, HCI Engineer and Instructional Designer

DLS, UCAR

Qian-Yi Gu, Graduate Research Assistant

Department of Computer Science - University of Colorado at Boulder

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Page List

Download Links

• SMS API Overviews

Prerequisites

End-user

• Javascript enabled browser

Developer

Requirements are dependent on intent. Since the API is called from a central location on NSDL servers, it is possible to make a functional interface with a server to host the webpage, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. More complex functionality may require a server-side web technologies and/or a database. For more information see the SMS JavaScript API implementation instructions and the example code.

Documentation

• Overview - Overview of the SMS technology including how to harvest the benchmarks using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.
• Javascript API - The SMS JavaScript API lets Web developers insert interactive Strand Maps into Web pages using JavaScript and place custom content into the maps.
• CSIP REST API - The Concept Space Interchange Protocol (CSIP) is a REpresentational State Transfer (REST) service API that lets developers search through concept maps and find digital library resource supporting concept maps. Developers can access concept maps in number of formats e.g. XML, OWLLite, SVG, PDF, PNG, TIFF, and JPEG.
• Resource Alignment - How to align resources to benchmarks so they will be discoverable from the Science Literacy Maps.
• Technical Training - All available technical training documentation including an FAQ.

Examples and Demos in Use

• NSDL Science Literacy Maps - NSDL implementation of the SMS Javascript API.
• DLESE Concept Maps - Implementation of the CSIP REST API using SVG
• AAAS Benchmarks - Implementation of the CSIP REST API.
• Additional Javascript Examples - Shows interfaces using the SMS Javascript API starting from a simple 'out-of-the-box' implementation to more complex examples.

Additional Information

• How to Use Science Literacy Maps

Supporting Documents

Presentations

• 2007 NSDL Annual Meeting Presentation