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Re: P in OPenDAP

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  • Subject: Re: P in OPenDAP
  • Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 17:22:51 -0800

T,

Actually its OPeNDAP, not OPenDAP.

And it stands for: Open-source Project for Network Data Access Protocol.
Regarding your question about the capitalization of the letter "P" in the acronym, I think that a more compelling question is: Why is there a lower case "e"?
For quite some time I thought that it was "OpenDAP = Open Data Access Protocol". I was however, misinformed.
As to your final question, I suspect that a violent revolution could be triggered by changing the capitalization of the acronym at this time. 

Cheers,

Nathan
PS - I pointed out to James that the opendap.org web site does not contain the expansion of the acronym and he said he would address this oversight. 



On Jan 26, 2005, at 4:56 PM, Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote:
It's driving me nuts, and I can't find it anywhere. Why is the P in OPenDAP capitalised? Does anyone mind if I call it OpenDAP instead? :) 

Cheers,
-T


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