End Users

• Research Scientists
• Educators
• Learners

Publish online research papers, educational materials, class assignment reports in online journals, educational web sites, courseware -- with references to datasets and tools for viewing and interacting with those datasets

Using central discovery sites, browsers, and data analysis applications, find datasets of interest (on THREDDS servers) associated with a particular time, place, subject topic, phenomenon, etc.

Having found datasets of interest, readily interact with them using THREDDS-enabled applications, applications associated with the datasets, server-based analysis tools, or browser-based thin clients.

Install and run automated THREDDS tools for generating PICats, entering PICats into central collections, or making the PICats available for harvesting by crawlers.

Generate heirarchy of catalogs for contents of local site and others that are related, so users of local site can readily find datasets that reside elsewhere.

LAS, INGRID, GDS sites provide interaction via browsers. All sites provide client/server access via THREDDS-enabled clients applications

Include hooks for initializing apps from within online publications.

Primary mode of interaction via both thin (web-based) clients and thick, full-blown local application clients.

Central Discovery Providers, e.g.

• DLESE
• GCMD

Facilitate integratioin of pointers to datasets and applications into publications

Facilities for harvesting and indexing information in PICats. Provide a programmatic interface for contributing PICat at time of creation.

Found documents point to datasets and inteaction tools

Publishers, e.g.

• JESSE
• ACM online
• AGU online
• DLESE

Future initiative with collaborations to be established during this THREDDS phase. The idea is that these groups may be interested in incorporating THREDDS into their publications. We need to actively attempt to work with them.

Future initiative with collaborations to be established during this THREDDS phase.

Future initiative with collaborations to be established during this THREDDS phase.

International partners,

Other data providers,

New applications developers

Addional disciplines (scientific or not)

Future initiatives with collaborations to be established during this THREDDS phase. Initial 2-years establishes system with current group of collaborators for current audiences. Ultimately we will want to let others know about the system to see if they can use it to serve their communities better, e.g., real-world examples for physics, chemistry, human-impacts studies, etc. We need to start making these contacts during the 2-years of the proposed THREDDS work.