The New HYCOM org hycom org Web Portals

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.

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 • Open. LDAP 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 • php. BB 3 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 • Media. Wiki 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/OPe. NDAP Service – Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (OPe. NDAP) – 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 Net. CDF files • vs THREDDS which aggregates Net. CDF files – Nothing new here…only a nice DNS name

thredds. hycom. org • THREDDS / OPe. NDAP 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