How to Explore

TATOR provides a curated data viewing experiences integrated with Schmidt Ocean Institute’s at-sea collection metadata.

The SOI Highlight data type provide at-sea reactions at recorded timestamps during the expedition.

When we import expeditions into Tator, we process these data via Natural Language Processing to create logical clusters of similar content. These points in time, now grouped by some similarity are available for viewing as film strips in the Expedition Explorer.

The process provides a computationally efficient algorithm to summarize and provide an abbreviated view of the chosen Expedition.

Interface Features

  • The datasets group comment fields on SOI Highlight data types
  • Some expeditions have other data types available as well.
  • Users can resize the film strip to maximize utility, utilizing both the scroll-wheel or click and drag to see all images within a group.
  • While hovering over an image, dive information is displayed.
  • Double clicking the image opens a new tab at that video containing the SOI Highlight.