Océano Escolar is a product available to students and to those who wish to have accurate, easy to manage information.
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Océano Escolar is an essential resource for all the schools.
Océano Escolar has been developed with the newest products, is trustworthy and efficient, has the best content in all the areas and study guides. It allows for easy consultation to all the latest information. It is an excellent reference tool, perfect for all students.
Océano Escolar has a database of over 73,000 articles in the following subjects:
- Mathematics and science.
- Technology.
- Linguistics and literature.
- Humanities and Society.
- Arts.
- Orientations, methods, techniques, and advice for studying.
- Content and data on all the countries of Latin America, including their constitutions.
- An extensive worldwide timeline.
- Biographies for the most significant people throughout history.
- A gallery of interactive graphics.
- Complete world maps.
- A complete anatomical atlas.
- Interactive simulations.
- Thousands of images and graphics in all the topics.
Different sources are used to provide different perspectives on topics of general interest:
- Reference Information. Over 46,000 articles from the Océano database, and other sources such as the literary dictionary Bompiani.
- Journal articles and specialized publications. The database includes over 11,000 articles from selected publications.
- Biographies. Includes over 9,000 biographies with an ample selection of individuals worldwide.
- Historical documents (transcribed or digitized). Never-before edited documents of historical value, including the constitutions from the Spanish-speaking countries.
- Images. Over 6,000 images from key moments in history to works of art.
- Cartography. Over 700 different types of maps that span the world, and include dynamic city maps.
- Anatomic atlas. Made up of 160 illustrations that cover the anatomy of the human body.
- Interactive. Over 120 interactive simulations to help understand key concepts.
- Dictionaries. Dictionary entries from the Spanish language, synonyms and antonyms, bilingual from Spanish to English, French and Portuguese.
Océano Escolar has an advanced search tool, developed by Océano, which retrieves from the databases the most relevant results for the widest to the narrowest searches. This product also offers alternative search methods, such as using themes, and specific content searches:
- Simple searches
- Searches by theme
- Timeline
- Galleries
- Maps
- Anatomic atlas
- Interactive simulations
- Dictionaries
Océano Escolar’s database is constantly updated with new content and previous content is revised. Océano’s editorial team has tailored each article to ensure the searches provide the most relevant information.
Technical Description
Océano Escolar is a web application that provides access to a large database. The product’s technical features are the following:
- Developed with technology J2EE (JAVA), via Servlet Engine, using de facto standards (frameworks MVC, etc) that have been proven and extended in the market.
- More powerful and in continuous improvement because of the biweekly updates to the XML documentary.
- Housed in its own servers that have proven high performance, which allows access to a high number of users, with an exceptional response time.
- All the information is accessible as HTML type documents using XML as the base format.
- Managed, indexed and accessible information through a powerful document manager.
- Supported by a powerful database manager.
- System of user information and statistics extraction and analysis.
- Compatible with different navigator types and versions.
- Interface designed prioritizing utility and facility of access to the information.
- Integration of advanced multimedia elements by using universal web technologies like Flash, Java, or Shockwave.
- Incorporation of the latest developments and innovations that are in constant investigation by the development team.
- Guarantee of permanent access thanks to technical support available 24x7.
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