Viewer showing near real-time solar image from NASA’s SOHO satellite.
Title: Space Weather Viewer
Developed for: Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center & JPL
Type: Online Exhibit
Developed with: Adobe Flex, Flash & XML
Launch Date: expected July 2008
Description: The Space Weather Viewer is a Flex-based interactive tool kit built to support the major public
outreach initiatives of NASA solar missions. The viewer allows users to view real-time NASA satellite images of the Sun and the Earth.
A pan-and-zoom viewer allows visitors to explore and compare solar and terrestrial data from a variety of NASA missions and ground-based
observatories. XML is used extensively for text content, captioning, and URLs/Paths for images and video clips.
User-controlled labels show & explain the sclerotic ring of coelophysis.
Title: Coelophysis Fossil Block
Developed for: New Mexico Museum of Natural History
Type: Touch-screen Exhibit
Developed with: Adobe Flash & XML
Launch Date: May 2008
Description: Visitors can zoom on to a high-resolution image of a fossil block containing the fossilized bones of dinosaurs.
It appears along the side the block itself. The exhibit allows the visitor to see details that might otherwise be missed. An overlay layer
shows illustrations of "death poses" of the dinosaurs. An annotation layer with labels allows visitors to learn more about points of interest
on the block. A video interview with the Paleo preparator provides insight about the block and Coelophysis. XML is used for all content,
placement of labels, media elements, and captioning. There’s more information about Coelophysis Fossil Block in the Ideum Portfolio.
Recent news stories are selected by CSC staff and are dynamically loading in the computer-based exhibit.
Title: Clean Power: The Promise of Fuel Cells
Developed for: California Science Center
Type: Trackball-driven floor exhibit
Developed with: Adobe Director, Flash & XML
Launch Date: Juner 2004
AAM MUSE Award Winner
Description: Visitors can explore the science and history of fuel cell development. The exhibit contains 3D animations, video
interviews, photographs, and other media elements. This computer-based exhibit connects to the latest news stories, Web-based polls, and "near
real-time" maps of air-quality in the Los Angeles basin. A timeline covering the development of fuel cells is also available. Content is presented
in both English and Spanish.
There’s more information about Clean Power in the Ideum Portfolio.
An interactive timeline shows the history of Chaco along with significant astronomical events.
Title: Traditions of the Sun
Developed for: Nasa, NPS, and INAH
Type: Online and Floor Exhibit
Developed with: Adobe Flash & XML
Launch Date: October 2004 & June 2005
Nominated for two Webby Awards: Best Science Site, Best Education Site.
Description: Traditions of the Sun series explores archaeoastronomy in both the Chaco Canyon and the Yucatan. A series of
pan-and-zoom satellite images reveal clickable “points of interest,” allowing visitors to explore ancient sites and modern connections to
science. An interactive timeline covers major historic, cultural, and astronomical events. XML is used for text content and paths to images
and video clips. There’s more information about Traditions of the Sun in the Ideum Portfolio.
The pan-and-zoom feature from North by Southwest shows details found in one of the artifacts.
Title: North by Southwest: Bering Sea Communities, Collaborations and Collections
Developed for: The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
Type: Floor Exhibit
Developed with: Adobe Flash & XML
Launch Date: October 2007
Nominated for two Webby Awards: Best Science Site, Best Education Site.
Description: North by Southwest: Bering Sea Communities, Collaborations and Collections contains a digital version of a 1901
photo album and a pan-and-zoom viewer to explore artifacts. The photo album was developed by Suzzane Rogan Bernardi and documented her stay in
Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, at the turn of the last century. A pan-and-zoom interactive viewer allows visitors to examine a set of intricately
detailed carved walrus tusks from the same era.
There’s more information about North by Southwest in the Ideum Portfolio.
