Data Distribution Laboratory (DDL)

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About the Data Distribution Lab

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What's New Listing of recent changes

Overview of DDL All you need to know

DDL Staff Images, short bios

WWW Projects

Catalog of Government Scientific CD-ROMs

A listing of over 400 CD-ROM titles in print. Under construction -- some titles may not be available at this time.

Pioneer 500 CD-ROM Jukebox

An Online browseable Jukebox currently containing over 400 CD-ROMs, including all the CDROM's listed in the Catalog.

Welcome to the Planets

This collection of the best of JPL's planetary exploration images is available on CDROM or through the WWW.

IGARSS 94

The DDL supported IGARSS (International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium) '94 by producing a CD-ROM of the conference proceedings. This CD-ROM was distributed at the symposium, August 8-12 at Caltech, free of charge to attendees. The CD-ROM uses NCSA's Mosaic and Adobe's Acrobat Reader as its user interface software.

NASA Information Systems Newsletter

Papers and Articles

Issues in Producing Multi-Platform CD-ROMs (Available in PDF format only)

This 5 page excerpt from our CD-ROM Professional article relates our experiences producing the Mars Digital Mosaic CD-ROM for PC, Macintosh, VAX and UNIX platforms. Available in PDF format only.

Making QuickTime Movies for INTERNET distribution

This is a short tip from David Hecox, our multimedia specialist, on producing QUICKTIME movies.

The Making of the IGARSS '94 Proceedings CDROM (Also available in PDF format)

This paper was submitted to the NASA Science Information Systems Newsletter for publication in the December 94 issue. It describes the process of producing a conference proceedings CDROM.

Automated Tape Conversion System

The Data Distribution Lab and the Planetary Data System took on the challenge of developing an automated tape conversion system that could copy the tapes to CD-Recordable media rapidly with minimal operator intervention.

Installing Standalone Windows Mosaic

This file was originally written to document the steps we went through to get NCSA Mosaic for Windows to access local files from PCs running without network connections. Like at Demos, or your home PC. It's a frustrating task at best. Each and every Windows PC I've come across seems to be configured just a little bit differently.

CDROM Production Process Slides

This is a collection of 32 color slides produced by Kristy Kawasaki for use in presentations about basic CD-ROM technology, and the things you'll need to know before you start planning to make a CDROM.

Do It Yourself Visualization (Also available in PDF format)

This article describes how to produce your own visualization products on the Macintosh using the Public Domain program 'IMAGE' from the National Institutes of Health, and a public domain rendering program called POVRAY.

Compact Disc Media Evaluation (Available ONLY in PDF format)

This article is a preliminary investigation of CD-ROM media evaluations, with experiments about the error-rates/recovery, and lifetime of CD-ROMS.

CDROM Media Evaluation Report (Also available in PDF format)

This article summarizes the results of a CD-Recordable media evaluation being conducted at the DDL by SIGCAT (the federal Special Interest Group for CD-ROM Applications and Technology).

Improving Optical Character Recognition Performance (Also available in PDF format)

This article documents the experiences of the DDL in OCR'ing 1100 hardcopy abstracts using the combined output of two different OCR software packages.

Adventures with Jukeboxes, Part 1 (Also available in PDF format)

This paper is Part I of summary of our experiences with a magneto-optic jukeboxes.

Adventures with Jukeboxes, Part 2 (Also available in PDF format)

This paper is part II of a summary of our experiences with a magneto-optic jukeboxes.

For questions about the DDL, contact

WebCurator: Mark Takacs at tak@jpl.nasa.gov
JPL Cognizant Official: Mike Martin at mike.martin@archive.jpl.nasa.gov
Last update: Friday June 09, 1995
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