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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Computer Science, Technology
Mission: The opendap protocol provides a discipline-neutral means of requesting and providing data across the world wide web. The goal is to allow end users, whoever they may be, to access immediately whatever data they require in a form they can use, all while using applications they already possess and are familiar with. In the field of oceanography, opendap has already helped the research community make significant progress towards this end. Ultimately, it is hoped, opendap will be a fundamental component of systems which provide machine-to-machine interoperability with semantic meaning in a highly distributed environment of heterogeneous datasets.
Programs: Operation of contracts to develop open-source data access protocol (dap) to freely facilitate the exchange of science data over the internet to benefit government agencies, research scientists and the general public. Some of the major accomplishments are as follows: nasa: raytheon - collaborative project with raytheon's intelligence and information systems division providing operational support to nasa distributed active archives for opendap hyrax server installations. Nsf: odsip - an nsf earthcube building blocks project: propose building blocks - open specifications, realized in client/server libraries - for a model and protocol by which clients invoke a rich set of data-acquisition services; dubbed odsip (for open data services invocation protocol).