Data services consists of a collection of libraries which together
comprise a powerful system for accessing and manipulating data.  The
objective of data services is to provide the application programmer
with the ability to access and operate on data independent of its file
format or its physical characteristics such as size or data type.
Data services is designed to address the needs of a large number of
application domains, from image processing to signal processing; from
geometry visualization to numerical analysis.

Many different application domains are able to utilize data services.
Each domain performs all data access through the data services API.
Data is interpreted according to the data model dictated by the
domain.  Data services has a series of data models available; each
model is designed to meet the need of a single domain or family of
domains.  The most powerful of these is the polymorphic data model
which provides consistent interpretation of data across many diverse
domains.  A geometry data model and a color data model are also available.

The dataserv toolbox contains the libraries that make up data services,
as well as a number of essential segment-based operators.

The dataserv toolbox requires the bootstrap toolbox to be installed.
