OPeNDAP Data Connector Web Guide

OPeNDAP Data Connector  Web Guide  Version 2.50  1 June 2004  funded by the National Oceanographic Partnership Program

The OPeNDAP Data Connector (ODC) can search for, retrieve and plot datasets published by OPeNDAP data servers. It can help you preview data and move it into the application of your choice. The ODC works on virtually any computing platform including the PC, Macintosh and most Unix- or Linux-based computers.

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This web guide to ODC illustrates all of its major features and shows you how they work:

• Navigation - Getting Around in the ODC

• Searching - Searching for Data

• Retrieving - Retrieving and Subsetting Data

• Viewing - Features for Previewing Data

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OPeNDAP Data Connector Web Guide. Revised 28 May 2004

Web Guide : Navigation

When you first start the ODC you will see a splash screen while the program loads and then the interface will appear. Normally the interface starts on the search page. At the top of interface you will see two rows of tabs like this:

return to the ODC web guide

Using the Tabs

The top row of tabs, search, retrieve, view and help, are the kinds of features. Each of these has sub tabs. For example, as you can see from the screen shot above the search tab has four sub-tabs: Dataset List, Favorites, Recent and GCMD.

There are no menus in the ODC like you find in some applications. This is because menus are more appropriate for document-based applications wheras tabbed interfaces are better for control/activity-based applications like the ODC.

To explore you can return to the web guide or investigate the tabs:

• Search features
  
• Retrieve functionality
  
• View features

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OPeNDAP Data Connector Plot Gallery Revised 28 May 2004 ·