DODS DODS
Distributed Oceanographic Data System

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What is DODS?

DODS is a software package that helps users provide and access data over the net in a consistent fashion. DODS is a highly distributed system due to the two fundamental considerations that have gone into the design of DODS:

Although DODS was originally designed and developed by oceanographers and computer scientists for oceanographic data, there is nothing in the design of DODS that constrains its use to oceanography. Indeed, it has been adopted by the High Altitude Observatory community and is being considered by segments of the meteorological and space science communities.

The DODS tools for developing network-savvy versions of popular data access APIs and data analysis packages extend the scope of an application's search for data. A DODS-enabled application can:

The truly remarkable part: you don't have to rewrite the code to enable an application to work as a DODS client.

DODS follows the client-server model, and is described fully in the User's Guide.

DODS software is free.