OPeNDAP stands for "Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol"

OPeNDAP is both the name of a non-profit organization and the commonly-used name of a protocol which the OPeNDAP organization has developed. The DAP2 protocol provides a discipline-neutral means of requesting and providing data across the World Wide Web. The goal is to allow end users, whoever they may be, to access immediately whatever data they require in a form they can use, all while using applications they already possess and are familiar with. In the field of oceanography, OPeNDAP has already helped the research community make significant progress towards this end. Ultimately, it is hoped, OPeNDAP will be a fundamental component of systems which provide machine-to-machine interoperability with semantic meaning in a highly distributed environment of heterogeneous datasets. The OPeNDAP organization exists to develop, implement, and promulgate the OPeNDAP protocol. It presents the results of its work freely to the public with the hope that it will be of service in many disciplines and facilitate sharing of and access to their datastreams.

Corporate Officers

	President: David Fulker Dave joined OPeNDAP as President in 2010. Dave has been active in the scientific software community for many years, 18 of which he spent as the Director of UNIDATA.
	Vice President: James Gallagher James is one of the inventors of the DAP protocol ( along with Peter Cornillon, Glenn Flierl and George Milkowski) and has been with OPeNDAP since it's inception as the DODS project in 1993.
	Treasurer: Dan Holloway Dan started working with the DAP in 1995 with the development of the JGOFS handler for the DODS project and has been a contributor since.

Engineering Team

	James Gallagher James works on all aspects of the OPeNDAP software and is the engineering and architectural lead for the DAP-4 specification.
	Dan Holloway Dan is working on client libraries and the DAP-4 specification.
	Nathan Potter Nathan started working as a DAP developer in 1997 completing a Java language implementation of the DAP 2 specification.  Later he developed the OLFS component of the Hyrax server. Currently he is working on Hyrax and the DAP-4 specification.

Offices

Rhode Island

OPeNDAP, Inc.
165 Dean Knauss Dr. 
Narragansett, RI 02882 
Voice: +1.401.284.1304 
Fax:    +1.401.284.1305

Montana

OPeNDAP, Inc.
125 W. Granite St., Suite 202
Butte, MT 59701
Voice/Fax: +1.406.723.8663

Mailing Address

OPeNDAP, Inc.
P.O. Box 112
Saunderstown, RI 02874

Technical Support

In addition to technical support services at: support at opendap.org, we also have several mail lists where the OPeNDAP user community can help. You can find information about the mailing lists and other good stuff at Documentation and Support.

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