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Re: Automatic catalog generation

H Marcelo,
The THREDDS Data Server (TDS) can catalog (and serve over HTTP, just bulk file transport) any file. However, to serve a dataset over OPeNDAP, it needs to read the data file in through the netCDF-Java library. So the data file must be in a format supported by the netCDF-Java library. Unfortunately, at this time GrADS files are not supported by the netCDF-Java library.
I'm not sure of the details, but I would guess that the GrADS Data Server (GDS) can serve any GrADS file over OPeNDAP. The GDS also provides THREDDS catalogs (just add "thredds" to the end of a GDS directory URL) though the last release I checked had a few glitches in the catalogs. The GDS can also serve some netCDF files but I think there are some limitations on that. 

Hope that helps,

Ethan

Marcelo Costa Oliveira wrote:


Tanxs a lot for advanced me Ethan
In my way i need that Thredds support GRADS files, but i condn't find any information about it. In my examples Thredds worked fine with NetCd - .nc, but i cond't get the same functionality with Grads. 

http://mocinha.lsd.ufcg.edu.br:8080/thredds/

tanxs a lot.
On 3/20/06, * Ethan Davis* <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote: 

    Hi Marcelo,

    From our TDS documents page
    (http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/docs/), there is an
    "Automatic
    Catalog Generation using datasetScan" link that describes the TDS
    configuration catalogs in some detail. Is this the kind of information
    you are looking for?

    We have code that can generate DIF records for datasets in a THREDDS
    catalog if there is enough metadata in the catalog. This code and
    some
    code to allow harvesting of the metadata (OAI-PMH) is still in a
    prototype stage. It would need some work to get it running again and
    make it more robust.

    Hope this helps,

    Ethan

    Marcelo Costa Oliveira wrote:

    > Hi users !!!
    >
    > I've started with Thedds and OpenDap, and im looking for something
    > that explain in details how Thredds Data Server provides automatic
    > catalog generation. How Thredds use DIF ??
    >
    > tanxs a lot for advance me.


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Ethan R. Davis                                Telephone: (303) 497-8155
Software Engineer                             Fax:       (303) 497-8690
UCAR Unidata Program Center                   E-mail:    address@hidden
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO  80307-3000                       http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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