Merge pull request #17 from isamplesorg/tutorials-oc

Added background to oc data

Author: rdhyee

tutorials/parquet_cesium.qmd

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-title: Using Cesium for display of remote parquet.
+title: Using Cesium for geospatial visualization of remote parquet data
 categories: [parquet, spatial, recipe]
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-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.
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+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.
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 <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>