OPeNDAP/DODS Status Report - March 2004

Yuan Ho
Ethan Davis

OPeNDAP/DODS and Unidata

Unidata's involvement in the OPeNDAP/DODS project lies mainly in user support, developer support, and release engineering. As a project that focuses on protocols and software for accessing distributed data, OPeNDAP/DODS project fits into endeavor 5 ("Distributed, organized collections of digital material") and endeavor 6 ("Improved data access infrastructure") of the Unidata 2008 proposal.

Unidata's support role to the OPeNDAP/DODS community falls into Unidata 2008 endeavor 2 (Comprehensive Support Services, [Data services, systems, and tools]"). Endeavor 1 ("Responding to a broader and more diverse community" ) is also relavent due to the OPeNDAP/DODS communities extent beyond Unidata's traditional community.

Status

OPeNDAP/DODS Unidata Support Usage statistics
OPeNDAP C++ 3.4.2 released: various bug fixes; better error messages; more robust client-side cacheing.
OPeNDAP C++ 3.4 released: includes a number of major code changes
Anagram Server Framework version 1.0 is now available: a modular Java framework for high-performance scientific data servers, which forms the basis for the GrADS-DODS Server version 1.2.
GrADS-DODS Server 1.2.7 is now available: This release adds several new features and optimizations, for details see for details see GrADS-DODS Server
Unidata Seminar (30 January 2004): "OPeNDAP and THREDDS: Access and Discovery of Distributed Scientific Data", Yuan Ho and Ethan Davis.
This presentation reviews the fundamental concepts behind the OPeNDAP and THREDDS frameworks, and discusses how they fit together and future directions. For details see presentation.ppt

Yuan Ho

Last modified: Fri Feb 27 12:30:19 MDT 2004

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