The need exists for tools that enable the integration of these data, together with their associated data models, interpretation models, and visualization requirements. The integration and visualization of data repositories into an easily accessed interoperable networked environment is needed in many disciplines for both scientific and management purposes. Vast amounts of information exist, collected and processed over many years at different research institutions. The data collections are stored in various databases, files, spreadsheets, or are generated by sophisticated data simulation models of physical and biological processes, and data processing techniques.
Data collections comprise numeric data, images, text documents audio and video.
Data models are implemented in some program code, which usually needs visualization tools to represent their results. This web site was built using the Weave system.