The user documentation for OPeNDAP covers two groups of users: those who want to provide access to data vian OPeNDAP and those who want to use data. In many cases the people will be one and the same since most providers will also be data users.
This documentation assumes that the readers are familiar with computers, but are not necessarily programmers.
This guide also contains technical information that will be of assistance to programmers who plan to write new DODS-compliant APIs for as yet unsupported data models. Data providers and data consumers may find some general questions answered by this material, but it is not necessary to know any of it in order to use the system.