1. The New HYCOM.org hycom.org Web Portals and Data Access Services hycom.org – dev.hycom.org (soon to become www.hycom.org ) dev.hycom.org www.hycom.org – ldap.hycom.org ldap.hycom.org – forum.hycom.org forum.hycom.org – wiki.hycom.org wiki.hycom.org – ftp.hycom.org ftp.hycom.org – opendap.hycom.org opendap.hycom.org – thredds.hycom.org thredds.hycom.org – las.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.

3. dev.hycom.org dev.hycom.org (soon to become www.hycom.org) Joomla Content Management System (CMS) Joomla – 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.

4. ldap.hycom.org OpenLDAP Service OpenLDAP – 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

5. forum.hycom.org phpBB3 Forum Solution phpBB3 – 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!

6. wiki.hycom.org MediaWiki Service MediaWiki – 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

7. ftp.hycom.org vsftpd Service vsftpd – 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

8. opendap.hycom.org Older DODS/OPeNDAP ServiceOPeNDAP – 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

9. thredds.hycom.org THREDDS / OPeNDAP Service THREDDS – 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

10. las.hycom.org Live Access Server (LAS) Live Access Server – 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