As shows of antiquities go, "Coming of Age," with its firm focus, lively subject matter and searching catalog, is a rousing presentation.
Along with the user interface, GeoNetwork offers another OGC protocol to search the catalog: CSW, Catalog Service for the Web.
In the past, Dr. Litaker said, finding such materials would require searching catalogs and writing at least six purchase orders.
And, Leif Hovstadius, whose wife periodically bought things from the Bean catalog came in because he was frustrated with searching catalogs for winter boots that would fit him well.
She had spent hours searching catalogs and Web sites for low-priced items, she told them, but staying on budget was harder than anticipated.
The head maintenance man is not too sure that Mr. Giorgio's lighting solution is going to work, but he notices that the salesman is working a little harder these days, searching catalogs and running cost estimates.
When we tested some of the apps, we saw how they could become addictive for searching catalogs, tracking lots, and checking prices.
To reduce storage footprint and accelerate coordinate-based searches, catalogs are compressed using the open source BGZip (Danecek et al., 2011) and indexed using Tabix.
You can browse or search the catalog, listen to 30-second samples, buy songs for $1 each — and download them directly to the iPod.
SPOT IMAGE: www.spotimage.com/spot -us.htm -- Registered users can search a catalog of more than eight million images for purchase.
