I'd focus on looking for tools that helped visualize data coming from different sources, as opposed to an actual database app. This way, the data can be completely separate from the presentation, and data from disparate sources can be displayed alongside each other. Also, open standards have a role to play here; there have been some amazing mashups done with data from wikipedia that is exposed via RDFa.
Digg labs has some great visualization; and the Simile project out of MIT is another good place to look.
Cheers,
Bill
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On Mar 16, 2010, at 5:02 AM, Fred Bartels <fredbartels@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm looking for a program/database that represents records as objects
located in a virtual 3D space, with the XYZ position of objects being
determined by attributes of the records represented by the objects.
The reason for this?
Imagine if every student could interact in 3D with their own data set of a
collection of objects representing a school's curriculum. See more on this
idea here: http://eva2.wikispaces.com/A+New+Operating+System+for+School
Fred
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