The New HYCOM.org• hycom.org Web Portals and Data Access Services

– 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.

http://dev.hycom.org/

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