As part of a phased approach toward an Integrated Ocean Observing and Prediction System, NOPP in 1999 selected a few preliminary steps for development. One of these steps was to plan and implement "a community-based 'system' to broaden and improve access to ocean data". The project described herein was proposed in response to the 2000 NOPP BAA and has as its long-term goal the development of such a system; i.e., ...