The New HYCOM'org

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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.

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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.

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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

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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!

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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

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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 hereonly a nice DNS name

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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 hereonly a nice DNS name

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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 hereonly a nice DNS name

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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 hereonly a nice DNS name