The THREDDS (Thematic Realtime Environmental Distributed
Data Services) project is developing middle-ware to bridge the
gap between data providers and data users. The goal is to
simplify the discovery and use of scientific data and to allow
scientific publications and educational materials to reference
scientific data. The mission of THREDDS is for students,
educators and researchers to publish, contribute, find, and
interact with data relating to the Earth system in a convenient,
effective, and integrated fashion. Just as the World Wide Web and
digital-library technologies have simplified the process of
publishing and accessing multimedia documents, THREDDS is building
infrastructure needed for publishing and accessing scientific data
in a similarly convenient fashion.