Merge branch 'main' into issue-13-parquet-duckdb

Author: rdhyee

_quarto.yml

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ project:
 
 website:
   title: "iSamples"  
+  favicon: assets/isamplesfavicon.ico
   sidebar:
     style: "docked"
     search: true
@@ -20,23 +21,26 @@ website:
         text: Home
         aria-label: "iSamples home"
       - href: about.qmd
-        text: About
+        text: Goals
         aria-label: "About the iSamples project"
-      - section: "Design"
+      - href: people.qmd
+        text: People
+        aria-label: "People of the iSamples project"
+      - section: "Information Architecture"
         contents:
           - design/index.qmd
           - design/requirements.md
           - text: Metadata Model
             href: "https://isamplesorg.github.io/metadata/"
           - models/index.qmd
-      - section: "Resources"
+      - section: "Outputs"
         contents:
         - text: Publications
           href: pubs.qmd
         - icon: github
           text: Github
           href: "https://github.com/isamplesorg/"
-      - section: "Tutorials"
+      - section: "Getting Started"
         contents:
           - text: "iSamples Tutorials Overview"
             href: tutorials/index.qmd

assets/isamplesfavicon.ico

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+---
+title: "People who contributed to iSamples"
+---
+
+* Cao, Sean
+* Choe, Saebyl
+* Cui, Hong
+* Davies, Neil
+* Deck, John
+* Kansa, Eric C
+* Kansa, Sarah Whitcher
+* Kunze, John
+* Lehnert, Kerstin
+* Mandel, Danny
+* Meyer, Christopher
+* Ramdeen, Sarah
+* Raia, Natalie
+* Richard, Steve
+* Robinson, Erin
+* Snyder, Rebecca
+* Song, Lu-lin
+* Thomer, Andrea
+* Vieglais, Dave
+* Walls, Ramona L
+* Yee, Raymond
+
+xxx! [do we hve a group photo or two? ] (assets/iSamplesArchitecture.png)

people.qmd

@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 ---
-title: Using Cesium for display of remote parquet.
+title: Using Cesium for geospatial visualization of remote parquet data
 categories: [parquet, spatial, recipe]
 ---
 
-This page renders points from an iSamples parquet file on cesium using point primitives.
+One key development of the iSamples project centers on the demonstration of low-cost, simplified, and more sustainable approaches to access, analyze and visualize scientific data. Rather than relying upon elaborate and costly server-side infrastructure, iSamples demonstrates how open source technologies like parquet and DuckDB-WASM can streamline cheaper and faster approaches to interacting with geospatial data.
+
+This page demonstrates how geospatial data can be dynamically accessed from a remote parquet file in cloud storage. The page uses Cesium for browser visualization of these spatial data on a 3D global map. The data in this demonstration comes from [Open Context's](https://opencontext.org/) export of specimen (archaeological artifact and ecofact) records for iSamples. However, this demonstration can also work with any other iSamples compliant parquet data source made publicly accessible on the Web.
+
 
 <script src="https://cesium.com/downloads/cesiumjs/releases/1.127/Build/Cesium/Cesium.js"></script>
 <link href="https://cesium.com/downloads/cesiumjs/releases/1.127/Build/Cesium/Widgets/widgets.css" rel="stylesheet"></link>