Transcript the new hycom.org

The New HYCOM.org
• hycom.org Web Portals and Data Access Services
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dev.hycom.org (soon to become www.hycom.org )
ldap.hycom.org
forum.hycom.org
wiki.hycom.org
ftp.hycom.org
opendap.hycom.org
thredds.hycom.org
las.hycom.org
• Please start using shorter hycom.org URLs/names
– If/when a portal/service is moved to another server, then no
links should require updating! We take care of this with DNS.
dev.hycom.org
(soon to become www.hycom.org)
• Joomla Content Management System (CMS)
– Open Source and Free!
– Advanced User Management
• Allow/Deny users to access, edit, publish & administrate web
content directly from any web browser
• User authentication via LDAP
– Simple Media Manager
• Upload files & Browse media using web browser
– Content “Article” Management
• Organize content using sections & categories
• Edit content quickly with WYSIWYG editors
– Integrated Search Engine
• Quickly find information, help, publications, etc.
ldap.hycom.org
• OpenLDAP Service
– Open Source and Free!
– Centralized user authentication system
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
– Use same login for ALL hycom.org services
– Fast, Secure and Easy to use/manage
forum.hycom.org
• phpBB3 Forum Solution
– Open Source and Free!
– User authentication via LDAP
– Integrated Search Engine
• Quickly find help & ask questions to the HYCOM community
– Moderator / Admin control of forum content
• Approve/deny forum posts and comments
– Attachments in posts
• Auto thumbnails of images
• No more emailing screenshots of problems!
wiki.hycom.org
• MediaWiki Service
– Open Source and Free!
– User Authentication using LDAP
– Quickly and easily create wiki content for anyone
to see
– Integrated versioning system to track changes
– Ability to search all wiki content
ftp.hycom.org
• vsftpd Service
– Nice URL/DNS Entry
• DNS pointer can be directed at any server
• Currently points to hycom.coaps.fsu.edu
– Fast & Anonymous FTP access to data
– Nothing new here…only a nice DNS name
opendap.hycom.org
• Older DODS/OPeNDAP Service
– Open-source Project for a Network Data Access
Protocol (OPeNDAP)
– Nice URL/DNS Entry
• DNS pointer can be directed at any server
• Currently redirects users to hycom.coaps.fsu.edu
– Allows Direct Access to individual NetCDF files
• vs THREDDS which aggregates NetCDF files
– Nothing new here…only a nice DNS name
thredds.hycom.org
• THREDDS / OPeNDAP Service
– Thematic Realtime Environmental Distributed
Data Services (THREDDS)
– Nice URL/DNS Entry
• DNS pointer can be directed at any server
• Currently redirects users to hycom.coaps.fsu.edu
– Provides Catalog view of Datasets served
– Nothing new here…only a nice DNS name
las.hycom.org
• Live Access Server (LAS)
– Nice URL/DNS Entry
• DNS pointer can be directed at any server
• Currently redirects users to hycom.coaps.fsu.edu
– Provide flexible access to HYCOM data
– Visualize data on-the-fly
– Experimental, but we are trying to make it better
– Nothing new here…only a nice DNS name