The Gaea Project is a research effort to develop an advanced scientific database management system capable of representing and manipulating diverse forms of data. The system includes a Visual Interface, Kernel, and Postgres DBMS as a backend. There are a number of potential projects in each area. Ability to retarget a Web course for different levels of students. A user-friendly editor allows instructors to add appropriate tags to HTML documents.
Students then see only the parts of the pages appropriate for their level.
Multiuser chat rooms to facilitate synchronous student, instructor, TA, and PLA communication. Secure grading system allowing instructors to record grades and students to view their own grades. Quiz Feedback system. Implementation in a combination of HTML, Java, Perl, and JavaScript. Loading this data structure for large data sets as generated by NASA space instruments takes many, many days or even weeks.