Re: P in OPenDAP

On Jan 26, 2005, at 8:22 PM, Nathan Potter wrote:

> T,
>
> Actually its OPeNDAP, not OPenDAP.
>
> And it stands for: Open-source Project for Network Data Access 
> Protocol.

This is close, but not quite right. It's the "Open source Project for a 
Network Data Access Protocol". You left the "a" out Nathan.

> 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"?

Lower case e because there are no words in the name that start with an 
e, but I wanted the e in the name to underline the
fact that the project is "open".

> 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.

It would have to be pretty violent.

The other choice we considered was the "Distributed Networked Data 
access system" ==> DisNDat
OPeNDAP sounds a bit more professional.

Peter

> 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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