Open source tools enable collaborative science. LIVE Environments’ strategy includes using and/or defining common standards and APIs for describing data subsets and communicating with external tools—making it easier to extend a researcher’s visualization, analysis, or processing toolbox.
World Wide Telescope is a tool for showcasing astronomical and Earth science data and knowledge. The WWT Viewer in glue demonstrates how complex web tools can be fully integrated into LIVE Environments, providing bi-directional interaction between your own data catalogs and images and vast quantities of remote data.
🪐 The live, interactive, view here shows a 25-gigabyte mosaic of the Andromeda galaxy atop the Pan-STARRS 3pi dataset with sources from the Gaia DR2 catalog overlaid. From the pywwt documentation.
🌎 The "airplane demo" showcased on the Linking Data page offers a good WWT Earth science (GIS) example.
External web tools that aren't fully integrated LIVE components can still be configured to have limited interactions with LIVE components, such as uploading a specific subset for visualization in the external tool.
This UCSC genome browser "plugged-in" to glue genes offers a good 🧬 example.
One of LIVE's near-term goals is expanding the use of AI in linking tools... read more on our AI page.
