{"id":6,"date":"2015-01-08T23:52:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T23:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoqs.org\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2018-11-16T18:20:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:20:27","slug":"about-stoqs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stoqs.org\/?page_id=6","title":{"rendered":"About STOQS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STOQS (Spatial Temporal Oceanographic Query System) is a geospatial database software package\u00a0designed for providing efficient access to <i>in situ\u00a0<\/i>oceanographic measurement data.\u00a0This efficient data access capability enables development of advanced visualization and analysis tools. One of them in wide use is a\u00a0web-based user interface that\u00a0follows\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infovis-wiki.net\/index.php\/Visual_Information-Seeking_Mantra\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ben Shneiderman&#8217;s mantra<\/a> (Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand) for exploring collections of observational\u00a0data.<\/p>\n<p>The source code is currently hosted at <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/stoqs\/stoqs\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/github.com\/stoqs\/stoqs<\/a>. Please go to that site for wiki articles, issues, and complete download and installation instructions.<\/p>\n<p>Development of STOQS continues with generous support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbari.org\" target=\"_blank\">Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STOQS (Spatial Temporal Oceanographic Query System) is a geospatial database software package\u00a0designed for providing efficient access to in situ\u00a0oceanographic measurement data.\u00a0This efficient data access capability enables development of advanced visualization and analysis tools. One of them in wide use is a\u00a0web-based user interface that\u00a0follows\u00a0Ben Shneiderman&#8217;s mantra (Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand) for exploring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stoqs.org\/?page_id=6\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About STOQS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stoqs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stoqs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stoqs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stoqs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stoqs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.stoqs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/www.stoqs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stoqs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}