JGOFS Data System Overview

Glenn R. Flierl, MIT

James K.B. Bishop, LDEO

David M. Glover, WHOI

Satish Paranjpe, LDEO

Index

• Introduction
• Basic Elements
• Data Objects
  • Translators/ methods: a view into the PI's data set
  • Data Model
  • Putting data on system
• Communications: connections between user applications and translators
  • Servers and Dictionaries: making the connection
  • Protocols: kinds of information transferred
• User Applications: talking to the JGOFS data system
  • Interfaces: using the system
  • Application Program Interface: subroutine calls
• Manipulating data

Obtaining the Software

• Installation instructions and tar file generation

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