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Part III. Appendix 2: Data Transport* Supported by groups not funded by NVODS. Included here for completeness.• netCDF• HDF 4• HDF 5• HDF-EOS• SQL• JGOFS - Data system developed for U.S. JGOFS• DSP - U. Miami satellite analysis package• FreeForm - Developed at National Geophysical Data Center• Matlab• GrIB *• BuFR *• CDF *Clients currently supported by OPeNDAP/NVODSOPeNDAP/NVODS currently is implemented on these clients.• ArcView• EASy• netCDF-supported apps• Ferret• GrADS• Matlab• IDL• others?XMLA development effort is presently underway to use XML to preserve the DAS and DDS of data sets;in fact, the physical distinction between the DAS and the DDS is being eliminated in the new XMLversion of the metadata containers. For some time, the DAS and DDS will be available in their presentforms and will coexist with the XML versions.The benefits also can move to the XML community. OPeNDAP adds a strategy for encoding binarydata within XML. OPeNDAP provides a rich existing infrastructure and concepts under development—standardAPIs, THREDDS style catalogs, applications already linked, LAS, ...—OPeNDAPadds lots of value to the basic XML starting point.191